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Robin Bernstein is a cultural historian who focuses on US racial formation over the past two centuries. Her most recent book is Freeman's Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison for Profit. Her previous books include Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights and a Jewish feminist children's book called Terrible, Terrible! She teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She currently chairs Harvard's doctoral program in American Studies. Visit her at robinbernsteinphd.com.