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Jesse McCarthy is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences at Harvard. He is the author of The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, the essay collection Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?, and the novel The Fugitivities. (April 2025)
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