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Richard Yarborough is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a specialist in African American literature and culture, and has written extensively on the subject. He is the author of several books, including The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections (2003), and has edited several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1997). Yarborough was born in 1951 in the United States. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981. Yarborough has been a professor at UCLA since 1981. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Yarborough has received numerous awards and honors, including the American Book Award for The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections (2003), the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), and the National Humanities Medal (2009). Yarborough is married to the poet and scholar Cheryl Wall. They have two children.

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2016

In 2016 he was awarded the Darwin T. Turner Distinguished Scholar Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society.

2012

In 2012, the Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award was set up by the American Studies Association's Minority Scholars’ Committee to "honor a scholar who, like Richard Yarborough, demonstrates dedication to and excellence in mentoring."

1991

Yarborough has been a consultant on a number of films, including The Josephine Baker Story (1991) and The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne (2013).

1990

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, with Yarborough as Associate General Editor, was launched in 1990, and he was also a founder of "The Library of Black Literature" series in which books by African-American authors are reprinted. He also worked with Henry Louis Gates, Jr on The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.

1973

Yarborough received his B.A. in English from Michigan State University in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980. He joined the English department at UCLA in 1979, his teaching and research focusing on issues relating to African-American literature, including pre-World War I African-American literature and the representation of slavery and race in American culture. At the time, he taught the only course offered in that field by UCLA, but in 2014 it was noted by King-Kok Cheung, a professor of English and Asian American studies: "Our English department is now considered one of the strongest — if not the strongest — in African American literature, with the richest selection of courses in the country."

1951

Richard A. Yarborough (born 1951) is Professor of English and African-American literature and a Faculty Research Associate with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also an editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.

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