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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Northwestern University |
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List Affiliations: | Reviewer for H-1960s |
Reviews: | Baltimore's Bigotry: Racial Capitalism and the Political Economy of Urban Change |
Interests: | African American History / Studies Black History / Studies Urban History / Studies |
Bio: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her dissertation looks at the rise and fall of the federal government's attempts at promoting single-family homeownership in African American urban communities in Chicago and Detroit in the aftermath of the riots in the 1960s and 1970s. She is active in local housing struggles in Chicago and is an organizer with the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. Taylor has written for CounterPunch, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Gaper's Block, and New Politics among others. She is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a columnist for Socialist Worker.org. |