Draft:Ula Yvette Taylor

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Ula Yvette Taylor is a professor and scholar of African-American history and Diaspora studies. She earned her doctorate in American History from UC Santa Barbara. In 2013, she received the Distinguished Professor Teaching Award for the University of California, Berkeley. Her research specializations include African American History (1890–1980), Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black Feminist Theory, African American Women's History, and Civil Rights and Black Power.

Publications

Taylor has published many books including coauthoring Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panthers and the Story Behind the Film (Newmarket Press, 1995). It was followed by the biography The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey written and published in North Carolina by the University of North Carolina Press in August, 2002. In 2017, she wrote The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). The book was praised for it's theme of womanhood into [African-American Muslims]] through an examination of the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1930 till 1975. Despite its highly patriarchal framework, black women exercised significant agency in the NOI. Membership in the organization provided these women with the possibility of becoming financially stable and physically secure through marriage in the face of a broader, highly hostile white culture. Written chronologically, Taylor's book follows the growth of the growth of the organization though telling the stories of several NOI Sisters and prominent leaders, including founder, Master W. D. Fard, Prophet Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, among others.

The book was positively received by book critics in the United States. In a review by The North Meridian Review, Taylor's The Promise of Patriarchy was called "the first in-depth, book-length analysis of women within the Nation of Islam." Another line said, "[Her] astute reading of archival sources and deft use of oral histories. [complicate] simple narratives of gender domination and resistance, revealing the multidimensional aspect of Black women's inner lives and struggles."

Book Chapters

• "Too Black and Too Strong: First Lady Michelle Obama". The Obama Phenomenon: Toward a Multiracial Democracy. University of Illinois Press. 2011. pp. 236–249.
• "Black Feminisms and Human Agency". No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. Rutgers University Press. 2010. pp. 61–76.
• "Archival Thinking and the Wives of Marcus Garvey". Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources. University of Illinois Press. 2010. pp. 125–134.
• "The Death of Dry Tears". Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. University of North Carolina Press. 2008. pp. 172–181.
• "Black Feminism". Black Women in America an Historical Encyclopedia. Oxford University Press. 2005. pp. 443–453.
• "Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam: Separatism, Regendering, and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X (1965–1975)". Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980. Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. pp. 177–198.
• "Amy Jacques Garvey (1896–1973)". Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. The New Press. 1995.

Journals and scholarly articles

• —— (2011). "Introduction: The Shaping of an Activist and Scholar". The Journal of African American History. 96 (2): 204–214. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.2.0204.
• —— (2011). "Combing the Archive, Tracing the Diaspora: The Scholarship of Gerald Horne". The Journal of African American History. 96 (2): 215–220. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.2.0215.
• —— (2010). "Origins of African American Studies at UC-Berkeley". The Western Journal of Black Studies. 34 (2): 256–264.
• —— (2008). "Women in the Documents: Thoughts on Uncovering the Personal, Political, and Professional". Journal of Women's History. 20. Spring: 187–196. doi:10.1353/jowh.2008.0010.
• —— (2006). "Street Scholars: Grounding the Theory of Black Women Intellectuals". Afro-Americans in New York Life and History. 30 (2): 153–171.
• —— (2000). "Amy Jacques Garvey: Community Feminist". Journal of Women's History. 12 (2): 104–126. doi:10.1353/jowh.2000.0047.
• —— (1999). "Read[ing] Men and Nations: Women in the Black Radical Tradition". Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. 1 (4): 72–80.
• —— (1999). "Proposition 209 and the Affirmative Action Debate on the University of California Campuses". Feminist Studies. 25 (I): 95–103. doi:10.2307/3216672. hdl:2027/spo.0499697.0025.106. JSTOR 3216672.
• —— (1998). "The Historical Evolution of Black Feminist Theory and Praxis". Journal of Black Studies. 29 (2): 234–253. doi:10.1177/002193479802900206.
• —— (1998). "Intellectual Pan-African Feminists: Amy Ashwood-Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey". ABAFAZI: The Simmons College Journal of Women of African Descent. 9 (I): 10–18.
• —— (1998). "As-Salaam Alaikum, My Sister: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Women Who Followed Him". Race & Society. l (2): 177–196. doi:10.1016/S1090-9524(99)80043-6.
• —— (1998). "Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism". The Black Scholar. 28 (2): 18–28. doi:10.1080/00064246.1998.11430912.