Also please learn your own history. English is not this nation’s first language. Not even the first colonial language. Don’t forget the Spanish arrived in Florida way before the British. Aquí estamos. No nos vamos. Seguiremos hablando español. Aprende o jódete. Y siempre siempre chinga la migra.

I hope, perhaps, recognizing the diversity and heterogeneity of Black life on these shores in our teaching can be one of many antidotes to the increasingly multicultural right-wing nativism and xenophobia that abounds in this place today.

This is my first time teaching part 2 of my "Black America" survey. I built the two-part survey with a funnel shape in my mind...

Idk who else needs this, but some amazing people (gifts to the humanities and humanity!) translated the Aponte trial transcript!!!! Thank you so, so much Alba Campo Rosillo and Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire! carnegieart.org/resource/jos...

On 2nd March at 17:00GMT, Dr. Elise Mitchell (Swarthmore College) (@bydreamphd.bsky.social) will deliver a WIP on African girlhood in the Spanish Caribbean slave trade. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

I’ve been moving in person meetings to zoom because Mayor Parker still hasn’t plowed my neighborhood, so the roads are ice. As of yesterday 2/3 of Philly haven’t been plowed.

I want to say a bit more about our initiative to hire scholars to 3yr Research Associate positions. None of us know what the twinning of humanities research support and employment will look like in another 5(?) years. But we do know that we need it. As a matter of social and cultural health. 1/

As a commuter, I want the historical record to reflect that Mayor Parker did not sufficiently clear snow in Philadelphia. As a person with relatively minor physical disabilities, navigating on public transit rn is treacherous.

Mutual aid for MN in one place! Signing off again until Tuesday ✌🏾 linktr.ee/MutualAidMN5...

Ok, I have a book manuscript draft that’s almost ready to send off and an article manuscript that needs some work and snowpocalypse preparations. I am done ranting about our hell for the long weekend. See you on social media again in a few days, when the sky clears. Drink water and take breaks!

The U.S. has been a lot like this for the last 50 years. The U.S. has been repressive and violent (in different ways) for hundreds of years. If you are now realizing this place has a problem, despite the 20th-cent social movements. Welcome! Listen to folks who have been screaming it since the 1970s.

We aren’t seeing Nazi Germany. We aren’t seeing American slavery. As many on the left and many in vulnerable Black and Brown communities know we are seeing post-1970s US quotidian state violence unveiled before our eyes.

ICE is borrowing from the police’s playbook. The impact of ICE on immigrant communities is terrifyingly similar to the impact of police on Black and Brown citizen communities in the 20th and 21st centuries. Also these communities frequently overlap.

Someone should write the oped connecting policies related to ICE, the increased requirement of cash bail, and over policing of domestic life in communities of color under this administration and how it all amounts to targeted family separations. One wouldn’t need to harken back to slavery to do it.

Interested in the history of enslaved people, Black history, and George Washington? Download this report, which is still on the NPS site (for now). My research team spent 3 years collaborating with descendants of people enslaved at the Washington's Headquarters site and the wonderful NPS staff:

The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

There’s a lot being said about ICE paralleling fugitive slave patrols. As a historian of slavery, I think it’s far more complicated than most are articulating. A lot of historical context and power dynamics are being mashed up in the process.

I did an interview with Robin Kelley about the murder if Renee Good — and what we know from history about strategies of resistance to armed agents of the state. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

As educators in the U.S., if there’s a future to be had, we’ve got to be pedagogically prepared for generations of deeply traumatized youths who grew up amid ubiquitous political repression, widespread state racial, gender, and sexual violence, and awash in disinformation. That’s the job now.

There’s a lot going on… what a mess we are in… what a bloody, morbid, deadly mess…

If you, a 🧪, know a scientist involved in this, sit them down and explain the Nuremberg trials and the Doctors’ trial en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors...

Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

One thing Venezuelans have generously taught me (among many things) is that all U.S. media companies (progressive and otherwise) have a strong set of investments in Venezuelan politics. Be mindful of this as you inform yourself. All the media is very, very biased in some way on this.

A several people and orgs have said, the U.S. does not have a good track record in South America nor have its interventions ever led to peace and stability. Regardless of how you feel about Maduro, the U.S. strikes and activity in the Venezuela and the region ought to be disturbing in the least.

@insurrecthistory.bsky.social Undergraduate Summer Internship Applications are open! Many thanks to @mcneilcenter.bsky.social for supporting our summer intern. Please share widely! www.mceas.org/index.php/co...

On 2/18 I’ll be joining an amazing group of historians of care work to discuss the history of nursing in the era of the American Revolution! Join us! www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

🤦🏾‍♀️ *sigh* there is so much to talk about in the Obama administration… one day…

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

What if we invested the money that we’re currently investing in AI avatars of dead loved ones into idk creating a livable world?

I searched the database. It is not just the POTUS and GOP in those emails. Dem establishment members and former POTUS are in there too. When the rest of the files are released there will be more.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

I just… don’t let the NYT slide folks. They’ve been a bad actor for a while. Some of us tried to tell you. I have a whole think piece in my head about how they enabled the rise and consolidation of a multicultural conservative right wing. Yes, even your faves from there are bigots. Goodnight.

This should be actionable

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.

FROM: [email protected] TO: [email protected] SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

it's almost like the production of knowledge is tangled up in questions of power

We swim in disinformation and the mainstream news media has been a part of producing that bs for at least the last decade. This isn’t my cynicism (frankly most days I’m optimistic), this is just truth. Mainstream media has us screwed and we deserve better. This can’t be changed unless it’s faced.

I think it’s healthy to question the politics and integrity of pretty much any journalist and editor who made the bulk of their career at NYT. I’ve saying this for a long time…

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

So, the NYT is even more trash than some of us thought. Some of us have been saying this for a long time…

The current context has had me thinking a lot about Black intellectual traditions. It’s a way of doing scholarship, indeed. But it’s also a way toward a useful pedagogical practice.

Amid the chaos in the world and the personal challenge of teaching 3 courses, I am happy to say I’ve arrived at the point in the semester when the threads I’ve been sewing with students for weeks are finally coming together.

This end game for millions of Americans without healthcare? What is it? Just a bunch of us sick & dying?

No, no, no. Senate Democrats secured the concepts of a plan for a handshake for a promise to hold a vote they will lose.