Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is widely recognized for her incisive analysis of race, class, and social movements in the United States, particularly her work on Black liberation struggles and the carceral state. Her scholarship often connects historical injustices with contemporary political issues.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her academic work focuses on urban studies, housing, and the political economy of race.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership won the 2020 Pauli Murray Award for the best book in Black intellectual history from the American Historical Association.