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A prolific and award-winning writer and speaker, Gross focuses her scholarship on "the way race and slavery have shaped law, culture, and politics in the Americas – and also the way law has created the very category of 'race,' with devastating consequences.'
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Jan., $24.95) by Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross reveals how enslaved and free people of color in three major slave societies used law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their families.
