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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton, a contributing writer at the New Yorker, and editor-at-large at Hammer and Hope. Her latest book is Race for Profit.

Articles

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Elizabeth Hinton, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Brandon M. Terry, Cornel West

The real estate market is so structured by race that Black families will never come out ahead.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
With Bernie Sanders’s campaign reeling, what’s next for progressive activists?
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Forum Responses

King articulated an anti-capitalist analysis of the U.S.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Modest demands may crack open debates about racial inequality.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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