Author: Marcus A. Hunter
Alternate names: Hunter, Marcus Anthony; Marcus Anthony Hunter; Marcus Hunter
Bio: Marcus Anthony Hunter is Chair of the Department of African American Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology, and he holds the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is co-author of the forthcoming Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (2018) and the author of Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (2013), which was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award in 2013. His research and areas of specialization are in race; sexuality; urban race relations; and politics, history and change with a focus on urban black Americans. -Routledge