Cedric Johnson

Cedric Johnson is Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.  His teaching and research interests include African American political thought, neoliberal politics, and class analysis and race. His most recent books are After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle (Verso, 2023) and  The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2022).  Johnson’s book, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) was named the 2008 W.E.B. DuBois Outstanding Book of the Year by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.  He is also the editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). His writings have appeared in Labor Studies, Catalyst, Dissent, Nonsite, Jacobin, New Labor Forum, Perspectives on Politics, and Historical Materialism.  In 2008, Johnson was named the Jon Garlock Labor Educator of the Year by the Rochester Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. He serves as an assembly representative for UIC United Faculty Local 6456.  Johnson says that he has had the great fortune of engaging Tivnu gap year cohorts over the years, and is “always awed by their inquisitiveness, sincerity and critical thinking and looks forward to seeing how these young people will live their social justice commitments and bring their passion to their workplaces and communities.”