Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders

[Uncle Joe]

44. Here is little more information about Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an African-American academic and writer. She is assistant professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, and the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016).[1][2] For this book, she received the 2016 Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book from Lannan Foundation.[3] She is the author of several books and articles that discuss her work in activism for black lives. Taylor is an activist for black lives and focuses her work in this area.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor earned her PhD in African-American Studies from Northwestern University. Her dissertation is titled Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis in the 1970's. She previously worked at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of African American Studies from 2013 to 2014.[1] Taylor is currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University in the African American Studies Department. She teaches two classes in the 2018 semester. Her current courses are "Rats, Riots, and Revolution: Housing in the Metropolitan United States" as part of the Sociology and African American Studies programs and examines the effects of housing developments and practices that led to underdevelopment in cities and its effects on the Black community. Taylor also teaches "Public Policy in the U.S. Racial State" which looks at how "public policy is debated, adopted, and implemented" through the lens of racial discrimination.[1] Her work has appeared in The Guardian,[4] and Jacobin.[5]

(snip)

Taylor has written for multiple outlets that include The Guardian and Jacobin.[4] Topics covered by Taylor typically cover gender, race and racism, and her social activism work.[19][20]

(snip)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has had books reviewed in multiple publications with positive critical responses. Ken Olende, in the Socialist Review, called #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation "a valuable and very timely book."[32] Taylor edited a collection of writings for The Dartmouth, a school newspaper, in which Jordan McDonald said the "historical importance as a Black feminist organization is unquantifiable; with this in mind, the work conveys the group's accomplishments for new generations of activists."[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor