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Salamishah Tillet | |
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.jpg) Tillet in 2010 | |
| Born | August 25, 1975 |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2022) |
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| Notable works | Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination |
Salamishah Margaret Tillet (born August 25, 1975) is an American scholar, writer, and feminist activist. She is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University–Newark, where she also directs the New Arts Justice Initiative. Tillet is also a contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times.
In 2003, Salamishah co-founded A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based non-profit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. Tillet received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2022 for "learned and stylish writing about Black stories in art and popular culture–work that successfully bridges academic and nonacademic critical discourse."[1]
- ^ "Salamishah Tillet, contributing critic at large, The New York Times". www.pulitzer.org. May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 9, 2022.