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Shana L. Redmond

Shana L. Redmond
Shana L. Redmond (she/her) is the author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (2014) and the award-winning Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (2020). A Guggenheim fellow and Grammy nominee, she is professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia University.


The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul

“In real-life Trump America, critical thought and political speech are shuttered in service of a belligerent agenda.”
April 4, 2025  By Shana L. Redmond
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