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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Melissa is forecast to make landfall on the island of Jamaica Tuesday, with up to 30 inches of rain and a life-threatening storm surge. Category 5 is the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale. n.pr/4np1Bx1

My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...

🎵Digital Black Face🎵

I have a new paper in @ersjournal.com, featured in a special issue on the mechanisms of racial hierarchy. The issue is co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.

I have a new paper out in @ersjournal.com, through a special issue on the mechanisms of racism, co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and #EduardoBonilla-Silva. 50 free eprints at link www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...

Brilliant open access essay of Ethnic & Racial Studies SI on the 'how' of racism. Esp that institutions require 'mechanics' to run--and those 'mechanics' are people! Bonilla-Siliva & Lewis reorient the discussion in a meaningful way. Power does not operate of its own volition, they suggest.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Kicking off year 2 on the tenure track.

Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.

#ASA2025 in the books. ✅

My newest article , "#PeroNoSomosRacistas: examining Dominican (anti)blackness in a time of global racial reckoning,” is now available online. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 During #BlackLivesMatter 2020, Dominicans used social media to engage in transnational discourses about Dominican Blackness and anti-Blackness. Article @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2531297

Honored to be a 2025 recipient of the Andrés Torres Paper Series Award from The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy.

Coming soon!

Meet our affiliate of the month for April, Dr. Pamela Zabala Ortiz! She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, with her work centering around migration, racism, and racial stratification in the US and Latin America. Her affiliate article is linked below! www.bu.edu/ciss/people/...

Don’t you dare “circle back” on January 2nd!!! We gonna ease into this mess as a COMMUNITY.

My newest paper, "'We're Expected to be Homogenous:' Contesting Latinidad and the Myth of Panethnic Inclusion," is now available online. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

Just got out of an early screening of Wicked. It was everything. And most importantly, nobody sang.

Created this starter pack yesterday.. who else do I need to add?? Share and tag your faves!! #AcademicSky #BlackSky go.bsky.app/H4CUfnL

Newer data on the Latino male vote. Turns out the majority voted Harris. But Dems and liberals jumped the gun and carved out a racist narrative and vilified Latino males. What happens when Trump weaponizes this data against the Dems? And when more Latino males flock to Trump, who is really to blame?

Hi, new followers. Since we're riding out the end times here, I figured I'd introduce myself. I'm a sociologist of race and ethnicity doing work on Latine racialization, Afro-Latine experiences at the intersections of Blackness and Latinidad, and anti-Black racism in the U.S and Latin America.

Hello! I began a starter pack with some folks working on Latina/o/x Studies, it's broadly defined and a work in progress for sure. Please share and also send more recommendations of folks to include! go.bsky.app/Rmi3sGW

My phone just auto corrected "trauma dumping" to "trauma dumpling," so I painted this in case anyone would like a visual of my mental state. How's everyone else doing?

So to soft launch some news here, I got a job. I’ll be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University next fall. I’m very excited to be in Massachusetts and to start the next stage of my career at BU.

Today I get to celebrate another trip around the sun and the end of my semester. I don’t know which I’m more excited about, to be honest. 🎉

I got so much good news this week it was overwhelming. I can’t wait to share some of it soon.

The rich absolutely do not see everyone else as human. Society is going to end with us killing them and taking their wealth or us being slowly ground down into starvation and mass death while they happily continue to enrich themselves

The front page of tomorrow's Daily Tar Heel via elmunc/Twitter

Made it to Philly for ASA 2023!

Hello conference prep, my old friend.

A last minute phone call on Friday informed teachers that the Arkansas Department of Education will not recognize AP African American Studies for course credit by the state. School starts in 2 days. AP European History continues to be offered for full credit.

😐 https://abc13.com/conroe-isd-trustee-melissa-dungan-racial-inclusivity-at-schools-pride-flags/13628737/

I don’t know what this is, but here I am.