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Robin Kelley

Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. From 2003-2006, he was the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia Univeristy. From 1994-2003, he was a professor of history and Africana Studies at New York University as well the chairman of NYU's history department from 2002-2003. One of the youngest tenured professors in a full academic discipline--at the age of 32--Kelley has spent most of his career exploring American and African-American history with a particular emphasis on African-American musical culture, including jazz and hip-hop.

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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk The Life and Times of an American Original By: Robin Kelley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publication date: November 2, 2010
THELONIOUS MONK is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist’s struggle to “make it” without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows...
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Race Rebels
Browse Inside Race Rebels
Race Rebels Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class By: Robin Kelley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publication date: June 1, 1996
<p>Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday...
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