Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and Freedom Scholar Award. His books include Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century, written collaboratively with Dana Frank and Howard Zinn. He also co-edited with Colin Kaepernick and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies; with Stephen Tuck, The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights and Riots in Britain and the United States; with Franklin Rosemont, Black, Brown, and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the African Diaspora; and with Jesse Benjamin, Walter Rodney uncompleted book, The Russian Revolution: A View From the Third World. His essays have appeared in The Nation, New York Times, New York Review of Books, Hammer & Hope, Black Scholar, Journal of American History; and The Boston Review, for which he is a contributing editor.