Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original and Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America.
It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley a
leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough. —Paul
Buhle, Monthly Review
"Kelley's crafted a funny, fast-paced tour of recent and
long-standing debates about the quality, form, and function of
black life, an interdisciplinary performance that has him kicking
up dust across all kinds of boundaries. . . . Kelley doesn't skimp
on historical detail or intellectual rigor; best of all, he can
play the dozens with the best of them." —The Village Voice Literary
Supplement
“Readers of Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! are...compelled by the
strength of Kelley’s arguments to identify and/or re-think their
positions in the contemporary ‘culture wars’ fray.” — Diverse:
Issues in Higher Education
“Dr. Kelley has provided us with a vast and still growing corpus of
intellectual thought and production...He shows us that by taking
dreams seriously, we better position ourselves to articulate and
actualize our affirmative political demands in the present.” — Dr.
Orisanmi Burton, author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism,
Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
"A salvo in response to the latest conservative efforts to mine the
familiar battery of statistics in search of proof that
African-Americans belong at the bottom of society. Kelley, a
historian, turns his considerable skill toward public policy and
perceptions." —William Jelani Cobb, Emerge
"Robin Kelley writes about culture, politics, Negrocons,
disgruntled former leftists, and contemporary activists with
intelligence, passion, insight, and great humor. This important,
fluid book makes it clear that Kelley's genius is his ability to
bring complex ideas down to earth and simultaneously make them
transcendent." —Jill Nelson, author of Straight, No Chaser: How I
Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
"Robin Kelley is a major new voice on the intellectual left. In
this book, he argues with authority and intelligence that the
familiar babble of rhetoric opposing identity politics to class
politics is mistaken. Instead, muliculturalism should be viewed as
part of the fabric of a strong class movement." —Frances Fox Piven,
author of The Breaking of the American Social Contract
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