Cynthia A. Young

Cynthia Ann Young (born 1969) is associate professor of African American Studies and English, and head of the Department of African American Studies, at Pennsylvania State University.[1][2] Prior to her work at Penn State she was on the faculty of Boston College, where she directed the African and African Diaspora Studies Program.[3]

She authored Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Duke University Press, 2006).[4] She was a contributor to the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Cynthia A. Young". People. African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  2. ^ Noor, Hinaa (March 1, 2018). "Cynthia Young, Penn State colleagues are fostering a series of timely conversations on race and more". Town & Gown.
  3. ^ Jeffries, Julia R. (March 9, 2010). "Young Discusses Race, War, Culture: BC Professor speaks on her research on race, pop culture, and the war on terror". The Harvard Crimson.
  4. ^ Reviews of Soul Power:
  5. ^ Grey, Erin (2015). "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties". Panorama. 1 (1).
  6. ^ "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2019-05-07.