About
The
Author

Naa Oyo A. Kwate is a nonfiction writer and interdisciplinary scholar focused on African American urban life. She has previously served on the faculties of Columbia and Rutgers University. Kwate is the author of the short work, Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now, published by the University of Minnesota Press, and editor of The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality, published by Rutgers University Press. She is currently writing two books: one investigating the impact of corner liquor stores on Black urban life (University of Chicago Press); and the second about cognac’s Black history (Harper Collins).