Cedric G. Johnson

Cedric G. Johnson is professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Career In 1992, he received a BA in Political Science from Southern University. In 1994, an MA in Black Studies from The Ohio State University, in 1997, an MA in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park, and in 2001, a PhD in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park.

Books The Panthers Can't Save Us Now (Verso, 2022) Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Editor The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)