Podcast Episodes featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Dig: Race for Profit with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Jacobin Radio - February 28, 2020 22:41 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Dan interviews Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Come see Dan discuss All-American Nativism in Boston on 3/4 facebook.com/events/522615241724284/ Support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig...

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Predatory Inclusion

Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast - January 10, 2020 20:58 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 108 ratings
Often, analyses of the intersections between race and capitalism consider how capitalism harms dispossessed communities of color because excluding or neglecting them is profitable. But what if serving those communities could be both very profitable and very damaging to the people in them? We spe...

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Race For Profit with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Macro N Cheese - December 07, 2019 17:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
The Great Recession was a maelstrom that hit many Americans hard - lost jobs, lost homes, for some everything but the clothes on one’s back. Despite the stock market, real recovery has been glacial at best. Yet many don’t know just how deep the crisis' roots go when it comes to the Black communi...

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What Bernie Could Do For Racial Justice with Briahna Joy Gray, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ariella Thornhill

Jacobin Radio - October 27, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
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What Bernie Could Do For Racial Justice with Briahna Joy Gray, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Arielle Thornhill

Jacobin Radio - October 27, 2019 04:00 ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
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Episode 41: Racism and Capitalism in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race For Profit

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism - October 20, 2019 15:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
In this episode we interviewed professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about her latest book Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. The book has already been put on the long-list for the National Book Award. Taylor is also the author of From ...

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Undermining Black Homeownership with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast - October 08, 2019 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 7.6K ratings
You’ve likely heard of redlining - the practice of systematizing discrimination based on where you live. You’ve probably even heard us talk about the ways its legacy continues to impact the upward mobility of communities of color. But do you know what happened next? In the wake of urban uprising...

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PREVIEW: In conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Current Affairs - August 29, 2019 22:47 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 576 ratings
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19 - Building Coalitions (w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)

Hear the Bern - August 13, 2019 03:32 ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
Professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor joins Briahna for a conversation about solidarity, intersectionality, and how both concepts are important parts of building a political coalition. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective on Haymarket Books: https://www.hayma...

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The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Life of Howard Zinn

Jacobin Radio - November 03, 2018 15:55 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Historian Howard Zinn remains a model for left-wing intellectuals who want to not only convey ideas to a public beyond academia but also take action to transform the world that it is their profession to explain. Dan interviews Keeanga Yahmatta-Taylor, a leading intellectual of today's resurgent ...

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Building Movements with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Shaun King

Library Talks - April 03, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
How have social justice movements evolved in the fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death? Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an author and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University whose research examines race and public policy. Shaun King is a writer for The Intercept and p...

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01: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Gun Violence, Black Lives Matter and Striking Teachers

Better Off Red - March 27, 2018 01:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 306 ratings
Resources and links mentioned in this episode: We start this episode with a clip from Edna Chavez at the March for Our Lives, but the whole video is a must watch. Danny talks about “Taking on Gun Fundamentalism” [https://socialistworker.org/2018/02/27/how-do-socialists-take-on-gun-fundamentalis...

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The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Recovering Identity Politics from Neoliberalism

Jacobin Radio - December 20, 2017 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor returns to The Dig to discuss her new book How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Forty years ago, a group of black feminists coined the term “identity politics” in the Combahee River Collective Statement. For them, it was a way to identify the ...

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Disaster Capitalism and How To Fight It, with Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mustafa Santiago Ali

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu - September 07, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Kamau and Hari dive into the impact of structural and environmental racism with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (professor of African American Studies at Princeton University) and Mustafa Santiago Ali (environmental justice leader with Hip Hop Caucus). Taylor advocates for building a unified movement ag...

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S3: Episode 14 — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Unauthorized Disclosure - May 01, 2016 14:43 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 186 ratings
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, the author of "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" joins the hosts, Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola, to talk about her book. She talks about the Congressional Black Caucus, solidarity in the Black Lives Matter movement, poverty among Black Americans, and the Democ...

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Lives Matter and Black Liberation

Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast - April 01, 2016 17:18 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 108 ratings
Few social justice struggles have captivated recent political history like the broad Black Lives Matter movement. From the streets of Ferguson and Baltimore to campaign rally interruptions of leading politicians, we have seen people speak up in outrage about injustices of policing, racist violen...