Salamishah Tillet
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Salamishah Tillet

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Salamishah Tillet is a scholar, cultural critic, and activist. She is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African and African-American Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University–Newark and previously the Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2020, she became a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times and is also the author of "Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination" (2012) and "In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of Alice Walker's Masterpiece (2021). With her sister, she co-founded A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based national nonprofit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women.
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