Cynthia A. Young

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Cynthia Ann Young (born 1969) is associate professor of African American Studies and English, and head of the Department of African American Studies, at Pennsylvania State University. [1] [2] Prior to her work at Penn State she was on the faculty of Boston College, where she directed the African and African Diaspora Studies Program. [3]

She authored Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Duke University Press, 2006). [4] She was a contributor to the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. [5] [6]

Education

Young has a BA in English from Columbia University, where she was a Kluge scholar, [7] and a PhD in American studies from Yale University. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Cynthia A. Young". People. African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  2. ↑ Noor, Hinaa (March 1, 2018). "Cynthia Young, Penn State colleagues are fostering a series of timely conversations on race and more". Town & Gown.
  3. ↑ Jeffries, Julia R. (March 9, 2010). "Young Discusses Race, War, Culture: BC Professor speaks on her research on race, pop culture, and the war on terror". The Harvard Crimson .
  4. ↑ Reviews of Soul Power:
  5. ↑ Grey, Erin (2015). "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties". Panorama. 1 (1).
  6. ↑ "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  7. ↑ Boss-Birack, Shira (November 2004). "John Kluge '37 Invests in the Future With the Kluge Scholars Program". Columbia College Today. Archived from the original on 2020-07-29. Retrieved July 7, 2021.


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