Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of several books, including Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), which was a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for history. Taylor is also a contributing writer at the New Yorker. (Author photograph by Don Usner)


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