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Cynthia Ann Young (born 1969) is associate professor of African American Studies and English, and head of the Department of African American Studies, at Pennsylvania State University.[1][2] Prior to her work at Penn State she was on the faculty of Boston College, where she directed the African and African Diaspora Studies Program.[3]
She authored Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Duke University Press, 2006).[4] She was a contributor to the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.[5][6]
Young has a BA in English from Columbia University, where she was a Kluge scholar,[7] and a PhD in American studies from Yale University.[1]
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