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Author Mikkel Jensen

Mikkel Jensen

Mikkel Jensen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he also did his PhD dissertation on the television serials of David Simon. His articles have appeared in American Studies in Scandinavia, The Explicator, European Journal of American Studies, and SERIES - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives.

The Long Civil Rights Narrative of Show Me a Hero

Mikkel Jensen
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Despite the important civil rights legal victories of the 1960s (the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968), residential segregation remains a fact of life in... Read More...
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