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Professor of English, DePaul University
Francesca Royster is a Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, and teaches courses in African and Black Diaspora Studies and Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies on performance and popular culture. This op-ed was written in association with The OpEd Project, which seeks to expand the range of opinion voices.
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