race for profit by keeanga yamahtta taylor

What should the attitude of the left be towards racism? At one point, the “Negro question” was how it was framed. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: So, that’s been the perennial debate within the American left, I think we can say, for more than the last 100 years. These have surfaced recently in debates within the Democratic Socialists of America. On the left, there are significant differences about how to understand the relationship between racism and capitalism, between race and class. history, with Black Lives Matter marches across the country protesting police violence and racism. But the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day led to what has been called the biggest protest movement in U.S. It began with Trump surviving his impeachment trial, then the outbreak of the worst global pandemic in 100 years, which in turn resulted in a massive economic crisis. Phil Gasper for New Politics: So, 2020 has been a roller-coaster of a year.

The interview was subsequently transcribed and edited for length. New Politics board member Phil Gasper interviewed Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in October 2020. Taylor is a columnist for the New Yorker. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018.

Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, longlisted for a 2019 National Book Award for nonfiction, and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in history.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Race for profit by keeanga yamahtta taylor