Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Assistant Professor at Princeton University, Writer & Activist

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Biography

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership," published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, a semi-finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History. Taylor’s book, "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation," won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective," which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction in 2018. In 2021, Taylor was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship.

Taylor is a scholar of racial inequality in public policy making and the various ways that Black communities have challenged or resisted these constraints. She writes extensively on race and politics, Black social movements and organizing, and radical activism and politics. Taylor is currently working on a project examining the retreat in the 1980s from the promise of civil rights, alongside the emergence of widening chasms in Black America along social, economic and political fault lines.

Taylor is among the inaugural cohort of Freedom Scholars funded by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation. Taylor has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians by the Organization of American Historians. She is a 2021 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Taylor is also a contributing writer for The New Yorker.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/01/2024.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Videos

  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "Race For Profit"
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discusses their book, "Race For Profit", at Politics and Prose. Starting with reforms instituted in the 1970s, Taylor’s...
  • Keynote Lecture - Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor
    In this Keynote lecture, Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor examines the politics of social liberation movements. Author of #BlackLivesMatter to Black...
  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    150 Years to the day following the unconditional Confederate surrender to the Union Army, Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore and severely beaten....

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Books

  • Race For Profit: How Banks And The Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (justice, Power, And Politics)
    Race For Profit: How Banks And The Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (justice, Power, And Politics)
  • How We Get Free: Black Feminism And The Combahee River Collective
    How We Get Free: Black Feminism And The Combahee River Collective
  • From #blacklivesmatter To Black Liberation
    From #blacklivesmatter To Black Liberation

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