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Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Ph.D.
Professor
Cook Office Building
nokwate@africana.rutgers.edu
Biography
Naa Oyo A. Kwate is an interdisciplinary social scientist with wide ranging interests in racial inequality and African American health and urban life. Kwate’s research has been funded by grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the European Institutes for Advanced Studies, the Newberry Library, and others. Her most recent book is White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). She is currently writing a book investigating the impact of corner liquor stores on Black urban life.