Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor speaks on what’s behind the attacks on diversity and racial justice

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Mike McCarthy at Hay Barn

Renowned public scholar, author, activist, and professor of African American Studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor joined us for a conversation at the Hay Barn on the conditions of possibility for diversity and racial justice in this era of retrenchment.

This talk was in conversation with Community Studies Program Director Michael McCarthy, author of The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It).

The two also spoke on the Spotify podcast “The Dig” and discussed the MAGA and DOGE war on woke, the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics, and the centrality of various oppressions to the class domination of capital and struggles against it. Listen now >>

Last modified: Jun 25, 2025