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Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights by Dr. Keisha Blain and The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir by @marthasjones.bsky.social ones are both fantastic.

As a self-confessed history nerd who's highly interested in Black women voting, when I learned about #Vanguard (in 2021), I just *had* to get it. I did that and promptly misplaced it. Twice. 🫢 Look what I found!! Can't wait to see @marthasjones.bsky.social for an autograph. 🥰 #womensupportingwomen

Very happy to discover that THE TROUBLE OF COLOR has turned up here!

Get ready to celebrate Bennett College at 100: One century committed to Black women’s higher education! #bennettcollege

Get ready to celebrate Bennett College at 100: One century committed to Black women’s higher education! #bennettcollege

I missed #ArtAdventCalendar Day 24, so here it is now: Old New Orleans, probably still the biggest wycinanki piece I've done, at 12"x14", Feb–March 2023. Done in commemoration of my favorite PhD advisor's retirement

Martha S. Jones on the podcast discussing the place of history in Black Studies, the meaning of memoir work, and her new book The Trouble of Color. Listen here or on most streaming services: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

1) @marthasjones.bsky.social, THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: AN AMERICAN FAMILY MEMOIR (Basic) A gripping family history that doubles as a synthetic overview of racial boundaries and cultural belonging across two centuries. It’s a model of the historian’s craft from one of our very best practitioners.

it's history, but I've been strongly recommended Vanguard by Martha S. Jones, subtitled "How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" and maybe it would work for you! (it's *definitely* got the community building parts)

This recognition - for THE TROUBLE OF COLOR - means a lot. Thank you to Ms. Magazine! msmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...

This recognition - for THE TROUBLE OF COLOR - means a lot. Thank you to Ms. Magazine! msmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...

They asked me for my favorite read of 2025. Can you guess which book I selected? hub.jhu.edu/2025/12/16/b...

They asked me for my favorite read of 2025. Can you guess which book I selected? hub.jhu.edu/2025/12/16/b...

I am def going to read Ada Ferrer's Cuba: An American History soon after this. and I requested Vanguard by Martha S. Jones for an ebook purchase. The library has a couple paper copies so i hope they get the ebook for me.

Congratulations to SNF Agora faculty member Martha S. Jones. Her book The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir has been named one of TIME’s Top 10 Best Memoirs of 2025. We are proud to see her work reach such a wide audience. buff.ly/pnEoSRo

Thrilling. Nicole Chung selects THE TROUBLE OF COLOR as 2025’s #2 memoir of the year, for Time. time.com/7340943/the-...

It’s so beautiful and important, Martha. I can’t wait to share it with my memoir students next year. Thank you so much for writing it.

Congrats! Your work is a real inspiration.

Is very good

Thrilling. Nicole Chung selects THE TROUBLE OF COLOR as 2025’s #2 memoir of the year, for Time. time.com/7340943/the-...

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

I don't remember hearing about #SlaveryArchive before this. They seem to be doing good work and their advisory board isn't exclusively from Harvard and Yale. Thanks for publicizing them and congratulations.

Wow, nice! And an excellent choice.

Congratulations! 🥳

Congratulations!! Every time your work is celebrated it is a moment of truth.

Very honored to discover that #SlaveryArchive has named THE TROUBLE OF COLOR one of its 10 best books for 2025. www.slaveryarchive.com/10-best-book...

Very honored to discover that #SlaveryArchive has named THE TROUBLE OF COLOR one of its 10 best books for 2025. www.slaveryarchive.com/10-best-book...

As challenges to birthright citizenship in the US intensify, scholars such as @amandafrost.bsky.social, @marthasjones.bsky.social, @katemasur.bsky.social are playing a key role in increasing public understanding and informing policymakers: bit.ly/4pz9XEk

"The Trouble of Color" is available now: bit.ly/3Y1inYG

This month, read a feature-length racial justice #BookReview of "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir", by Martha S. Jones, Basic Books ow.ly/LBpM50XBryL #Racialjustice #TBR

Dr. Martha Jones wrote a whole book showing that, contra Dred Scott, Black Americans had exercised citizenship rights throughout much of the country for generations before 14A. They got patents, filed lawsuits, engaged in contracts. Birthright citizenship always implicitly existed. 14A codified it.

🎁Gift Article From July 2, 2023 Why Republicans Keep Calling for the End of Birthright Citizenship It’s about more than immigration. By Martha S. Jones a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute professor at Johns Hopkins University. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Wrote this last year to highlight Martha Jones’ scholarship on the origins of birthright citizenship: Black abolitionists understood their citizenship - along w indigenous Americans - would be forever conditional and possibly revoked en masse w/o a constitutional guarantee www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

📚💙 💡📚💙 #HistorySky #Booksky #LegalSky #TBR #Books #History #Birthright #Citizenship Birthright Citizens Studies in Legal History by Martha S. Jones 266 pages • hardcover • 2018

Legal scholar Robert Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social on Martha S. Jones’s book BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENS @marthasjones.bsky.social:

(We're biased, but: it is always a good time to read BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENS if you're interested in Baltimore history. Even when the relevant existential terror is not quite so close at hand)

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There's been lots of interest in the Black Reconstruction tour, but let me commend this one to you too!! Equally intended to inspire, emphasizing community, all of that good stuff

On the Slaughter case + birthright citizens @katemasur.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social @vicnourse.bsky.social @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Too many books and not enough time to read them all.

This is a fascinating list and I’m very honored to find THE TROUBLE OF COLOR here among the 2025 books recognized by thé African American Intellectual History Society! www.aaihs.org/the-best-bla...

As we face up to SCOTUS arguments over birthright citizenship, understanding this constitutional guarantee has never been more important. @brennancenter.org & @oah.org have you covered with this video feat. @katemasur.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social & Erika Lee: www.youtube.com/live/6QCIt0l...

For more on this historical context, see this amicus brief from @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

If you haven't already done so, now would be an excellent time to read @marthasjones.bsky.social "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America."