Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
About the Author
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is the author of Race for Profit How Banks and the Real Estate industry Undermined Black Homeownership, which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History, and of show more How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction in 2018. She is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a contributing writer at the New Yorker. show less
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Works by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Associated Works
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — Contributor — 845 copies
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1994) — Foreword, some editions — 736 copies
Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics: A Report — Contributor, some editions — 8 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1950
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Northeastern Illinois University (BA)
Northwestern University (MA, PhD | African American Studies)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (post-doc) - Occupations
- professor
historian
author
political activist - Organizations
- International Socialist Organization
Princeton University, African American Studies
Urban History Association
American Historical Association
American Sociological Association - Agent
- France Coady
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Statistics
- Works
- 7
- Also by
- 10
- Members
- 1,192
- Popularity
- #21,564
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 9
- ISBNs
- 29
- Languages
- 5
That said, this book was much better than I thought it would be. It gives a detailed history of the Civil Rights movement, and it's successes and failures, and then compares them to the current (six years ago) Black Lives Matter movement. Taylor explains this in an academic voice, but one that's accessible to just about anyone. I feel like I have a much clearer understanding of many things now that I've read this.
The only section that rubbed me the wrong way was when Taylor, seemingly apropos of nothing, defends Marx from charges that he was racist. She doesn't do a very good job, and doesn't even mention his misogyny or rampant anti-Semitism… (more)