MAGA and Race: What's Different This Time | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Описание: In this week's session of The Civic Forum, ,Rory Truex is joined by Princeton Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a short lecture about MAGA, Race, and Black History. Keeanga's opening remarks focus on how race is being constructed differently in the second Trump administration. Keeanga and Rory discuss how Critical Race Theory has been recoded and misrepresented. The conversation closes with strategies to promote cross-racial working class solidarity and thoughts on where the pro-democracy movement can go from here.

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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.

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Timestamps
00:00 Welcome and Introduction
02:46 Keeanga's Opening Remarks
21:30 The Role of Race in American Authoritarianism
30:45 Patriotic Education and the Recoding of CRT
40:05 How to Build Cross-racial Working Class Solidarity
43:55 Where Does the Pro-democracy Movement Go From Here