Salamishah Tillet
AUTHOR

Salamishah Tillet

Biographies & Memoirs | Arts & Entertainment
Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
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.
Read more Read less
You're getting a free audiobook


You're getting a free audiobook.

$14.95 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Try for $0.00

Best Sellers

Product List
  • In Search of the Color Purple Audiobook By Salamishah Tillet cover art

    Regular price: $29.20 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $29.20 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Crowned Audiobook By Kahran Bethencourt, Regis Bethencourt, Salamishah Tillet - foreword cover art

    Regular price: $10.39 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $10.39 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central