Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | |
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Occupation | Professor |
Awards | MacArthur Fellow |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Northeastern Illinois University (BA) Northwestern University (MA, PhD) |
Thesis | Race for Profit: The Political Economy of Black Urban Housing in the 1970's (2013) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | African American Studies |
Institutions | Princeton University |
Notable works | From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016) |
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic, writer, and activist. She is a professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016).[1][2] For this book, Taylor received the 2016 Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book from the Lannan Foundation.[3] She is a co-publisher of Hammer & Hope, an online magazine that began in 2023.[4]