Robin Kelley is the preeminent historian of black popular culture writing today
Cornel West
Through this masterful book of black radical history and philosophy, I can look past the dreariness of our unfree world with the binoculars of the imaginary
Ibram X Kendi
About Robin D. G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley is the author of the definitive biography Thelonious Monk, which received the PEN Open Book Award. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he resides.