New in Contexts! @dmmurphy.bsky.social on political rhetoric versus reality.

Excited to have a new piece in the Fall 2025 issue of Contexts journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history. greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos. Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.

I spent six months walking the Lower Ninth Ward, speaking w/ dozens of neighbors, + combing through 6,000 pages of FOIA docs. My latest reveals what recent documentaries left out. If Katrina’s legacy moved you, don’t miss what’s happening to the community now capitalbnews.org/katrina-anni...

Excited about my latest publication in Qualitative Sociology! I explore how Black residents in a resource scarce ”desert” perceive access to groceries, pharmacies, and parks and why their lived realities often diverge from GIS-based assessments of access. doi.org/10.1007/s111... DM me for a link!

I am thrilled to co-organize with @laceesatcher.bsky.social the mini-conference "Black Placemaking and Worldmaking: Space, Power, and Possibility" at the 2026 Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. If the call resonates with you, please submit your work.

I'm delighted to share my new article in @readdemography.bsky.social!

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “No abolitionist who is a true abolitionist wants to save money. What we want is for the money to be spent, to enhance, and support human life so that it can flourish in a way that doesn’t destroy the planet. We’re not about cost-savings.” Save lives, not money.

Justified critiques of the Biden admin abound, but they deserve enormous credit for their stance on the 2022 Brazilian election. Events over last week make absolutely clear that if Trump had been president when Bolsonaro lost, Brazilian democracy would have been mortally wounded

🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ Trump Pledges 50% Tariffs Against Brazil, Citing ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Bolsonaro www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Good morning to those commemorating the struggle for freedom, fervently defending freedom's possibilities for our descendants, and having a good time doing it. #HappyJuneteenth

I’m so happy to boost this amazing news! Please share your stories about successful defenses and such on the #Blackademics feed using #wemadeit because it takes a village!!

I’m excited to share that I defended my Ph.D. and will join Boston College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies. Thank you to my committee, academic community, and family for their unwavering support and love.

TLP invites proposals for “Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge in Contemporary Culture” an interdisciplinary, open call conference to be held on October 10, 2025 at NYU. We are interested in original contributions that examine contemporary visual and expressive culture across disciplines. Learn more in 🔗

Y'all see Tressie getting it. This brought me joy. Add a little joy to your timelines, too.

Truly appreciating meeting & conversing w/ dope scholars this academic yr before sabbatical. Thank you again @k-till.bsky.social @dmmurphy.bsky.social for our convos, laughter, & pushing students @ Pitzer to think through complex matters & showcasing young scholars changing things in sociology.

I had a great time delivering a talk for the Racial Justice Initative at Pitzer College. HUGE s/o and thank you to Dr. Alicia Bonaparte for the invite, coordination, and being a guiding light in academia. S/o to the soon-to-be Dr. Demetrius Murphy for pulling up. Amazing discussion! #SocAF

Every word of this piece from @cmgreer.bsky.social is on point. READ and share it. We’re sick of it. Wake up! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

The deadline is fast approaching for the #UrbanHealth Equity call for papers! Visit our website for details: buff.ly/QM69ZnY

Keen sociological analysis on loyalty vs dominance regimes.

I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests. But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

Lord, I see what you do for others www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Two days after Michael was killed, I wrote this short piece about what he meant to me – and more importantly, what he meant to us. It was the hardest thing I've ever written. Thanks to @versobooks.bsky.social for running it.

I don’t identify as a pessimist or an optimist. Instead, I’m an ameliorist—I believe we can improve the world. As such, I focus on the imagination, tools, and resources that can contribute to a better world.

As we begin the transition to a new Trump presidency I urge us to avoid framing Trump’s behavior in individual psychological terms (i.e. as mental instability) and instead frame the issue structurally as a product of growing up as a rich white male in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

Are you 18+ and Black/African American? Have you have attended a financial literacy/class or consumed financial education content online or in person? If so, I would love to talk to you for my dissertation research. Sign up at brokeish.com/research. See flyer below for details. #financialliteracy

Collard greens, black eyed peas, and Luther. That sounds like a good Black-ass way to counter the mess 2025 is already bringing. @CNN tonight - like right now, actually. #NeverTooMuch

Uplifting: a bettering of a condition especially spiritually, socially, or intellectually Cheers to uplifting myself and others in 2025.

“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.” — Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

In this Contexts piece, Auldridge-Reveles and @dmmurphy.bsky.social (2024) make the argument for why we need a sociology of flourishing.

New from @dukepress.bsky.social: Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation dukeupress.edu/rio-as-method

Now, this is a section I can get behind. Start the petition @sethabrutyn.bsky.social.

Doechii Tiny Desk is out now! Run, don’t walk!

I have been eagerly waiting to read this since Dr. Moody's presentation at the Southern Sociological Society. I am excited it exists in the world.

A few important fact to remember: S. Korea lived under some form of military dictatorship from 1965-1988! Brazil lived under a military dictatorship from 1964-1985! Democracy is not an abstraction to these folk, it's a vulnerable thing that they want to protect.

What happens to White people displaced from gentrified neighborhoods? My newly published article shows they are demographically similar to non-White displacees but end up in better-off neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

New piece of mine dropped in Qualitative Inquiry! “Condensed Eulogies: On Biology, Brutality, and Blame.” Been experimenting with tone and prose a lot lately; hope some of it resonates. Check it out and lemme know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 New pub alert 🚨 Theorizing the neoliberal political economies across sites of family policing, including the child support enforcement & immigration systems, as a family policing industrial complex. doi.org/10.1177/1362... #SocAF #socsky #Sociology #Criminology

I had a blast teaching #Sociology of #Housing last spring. Here's my syllabus and podcast playlist: tinyurl.com/socofhousing Podcast playlist: tinyurl.com/housingpod (I've added a few things to it that came out after the semester) 🏡🏨🏗️

Dr. Alex Cross has a PhD. I have found my new TV series. #addblacksky #blacksky

A democracia brasileira exige a prisão de Bolsonaro e todos os envolvidos no plano para assassinar o presidente Lula.

#sociology peeps: recommendations for qual (or quant) work on recreation, leisure, sport, games, fun, pleasures, play, so on...I'll take any and all. Thanks!

Very excited to give a talk tonight on my published article, “Is the Black Church Dead” and facilitate a conversation on embodied religion, both in and outside of the church, for Dartmouth’s Wheelock Society community! ✝️🙌🏾✨ Access the full article for free here: doi.org/10.3390/rel1...

Excited to share a podcast episode discussing my article “Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation” sagesociology.libsyn.com/sociology-of...