Toni Morrison Helps Celebrate Clyde Taylor’s 45 Years of Teaching

NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA), the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and Africana Studies at NYU recently honored Gallatin professor Clyde Taylor on his retirement from 45 years of teaching as a professor of social and cultural analysis who focused on African American and African literature, African Diaspora film and literature, and the politics of representation and vernacular modernisms. Pictured, from left, are Taylor; Manthia Diawara, University Professor and IAAA director; Steinhardt School graduate student Ron Wilson; Ulrich Baer, professor of German studies and comparative literature and vice provost for globalization and multicultural affairs; and Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate in literature and professor, Princeton University.