Cedric G. Johnson is professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Career In 1992, he received a BA in Political Science from Southern University. In 1994, an MA in Black Studies from The Ohio State University, in 1997, an MA in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park, and in 2001, a PhD in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park.
In 2008, his book Revolutionaries to Race Leaders was named the W.E.B. DuBois Outstanding Book of the Year by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Books The Panthers Can't Save Us Now (Verso, 2022) Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Editor The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
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