Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor — A Larger Freedom: Multiracial Democracy
Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor challenges myths about democratic erosion, examining the long-standing structural forces shaping American democracy.
Why we picked this
Taylor's work refuses easy narratives about democracy under threat — instead asking whether the threat was always built into the structure. A necessary corrective.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, one of the most incisive political thinkers writing today, brings her analysis of American democracy to Town Hall Seattle. Her lecture challenges the popular framing of democratic erosion as a recent phenomenon, arguing instead that structural forces — racial, economic, and institutional — have shaped and constrained American democracy from its founding.
Taylor is a professor at Princeton and the author of several acclaimed books on race, housing, and politics in America. Her writing combines rigorous historical analysis with a clear-eyed assessment of the present, making her one of the essential voices in contemporary political thought.
The event is part of the University of Washington’s public lecture series. Pay-what-you-will admission with livestream available.