Draft:Ula Yvette Taylor

Ula Yvette Taylor is a professor and scholar of African-American history and Diaspora studies. She earned her doctorate in American History from UC Santa Barbara. In 2013, she received the Distinguished Professor Teaching Award for the University of California, Berkeley. Her research specializations include African American History (1890–1980), Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black Feminist Theory, African American Women's History, and Civil Rights and Black Power.

Publications
Taylor has published many books including coauthoring Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panthers and the Story Behind the Film (Newmarket Press, 1995). It was followed by the biography The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey written and published in North Carolina by the University of North Carolina Press in August, 2002. In 2017, she wrote The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). The book was praised for it's theme of womanhood into [African-American Muslims]] through an examination of the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1930 till 1975. Despite its highly patriarchal framework, black women exercised significant agency in the NOI. Membership in the organization provided these women with the possibility of becoming financially stable and physically secure through marriage in the face of a broader, highly hostile white culture. Written chronologically, Taylor's book follows the growth of the growth of the organization though telling the stories of several NOI Sisters and prominent leaders, including founder, Master W. D. Fard, Prophet Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, among others.

The book was positively received by book critics in the United States. In a review by The North Meridian Review, Taylor's The Promise of Patriarchy was called "the first in-depth, book-length analysis of women within the Nation of Islam." Another line said, "[Her] astute reading of archival sources and deft use of oral histories. [complicate] simple narratives of gender domination and resistance, revealing the multidimensional aspect of Black women's inner lives and struggles."