July 17, 2025. 12 PM EST
Race, Black History, and the MAGA Movement
In this week's session, we will hear from Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a professor in Princeton's African American Studies department, a recipient of both the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Keeanga will speak on structural racial inequality in the United States and the role of race and Black History in the MAGA movement.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Meet the Speaker
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press. Race for Profit was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. She is a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Her earlier book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. Taylor is a cofounder of Hammer & Hope and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She is a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2016, she was named one of the hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by The Root. She is currently a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
Suggested Readings
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