It’s pub day! Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for this amazing animated announcement 🔥

Get out and vote TODAY, Boston! 🗳️ Check where you vote at wheredoivotema.com and find more voting info at michelleforboston.com/vote.

New #Identities Symposium: 'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter In our latest issue: www.tandfonline.com/...#Identities @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social

'The benefits of longitudinal ethnography' Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium: doi.org/10.1080/1070...#Identities' @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

I loved revisiting the lives of the young men in The Asian Gang for this review of the Asian Gang Revisited. The book came out just as I started graduate school and I learned a lot from it back then as well as now!

Please join a Book Forum discussion of my book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools at the ASA conference in less than 2 weeks! Monday 2 pm Central I can't wait! @soceducation.bsky.social www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...

things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus.

As much as I try to be open-minded, I feel a real loss with AI's presence. During any ritual (most recently, graduation & other inspirational speeches), rather than take in the beauty and complexity of a speaker's words, I keep wondering if it truly coming from their soul or from AI. 1/4

This is a must read/cite/teach article from @nwarikoo.bsky.social.

The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

On this Earth Day 2025, it seems like a good day to remind everyone about how we are going to / need to Save Ourselves. Check out my TEDTalk for details 👇

Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

Guy out of frame: "You don't look like police. Why are you hiding your faces? Why are you hiding your faces?"

Video of arrest of Tufts international student today is harrowing. I am speechless. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

harrowing account of detainees' arrival in El Salvador. No human should be treated like this, even if accused/convicted of a crime. We are guilty of crimes against humanity.

Every elite college president (and board member) needs to read @charlieeaton.bsky.social clear-eyed take on how large endowments can and should be used by universities as sites for truth-seeking in a democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

This piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social captures something I wish more were talking about: now that SCOTUS + POTUS have dismantled the utility of the weak diversity/DEI frame on race, we might as well emphasize power, equity, and justice: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... @washingtonpost.com

Beautiful thread about my wonderful colleague Sam Sommers. He was also a wonderful Tufts community member. I had LOTS of questions as I prepared to teach my department's intro class for the first time this semester--and was so generous and gracious with my endless queries. And so much more, too.

Academics: here's one small thing you can DO-sign this letter that affirms the importance of truth-seeking for democracy. I can't believe we are here but we are. And please share with me what else you are doing-I need ideas for action!

Yes! I can't believe there isn't more of statements like this coming fast and furious. And fellow faculty-would love for you to share how you are addressing this moment in your classrooms if you are.

📢 Trump is preparing an executive order to try to dismantle the Dept. of Education. What does this move mean for K-12 and higher education? For reporters covering this question & related developments, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️ 🔗 scholars.org/features/exp...

Our article, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination," is in Contexts Magazine! This is an extension of our award-winning book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism. 📖 Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

A legal challenge to OCR’s Dear Colleague letter argues that the department’s references to discrimination are too vague, and fail to give clear indication of what programs are illegal. chroni.cl/3EVYpsh

This is not Trump, but a Democratic governor attacking academic freedom. Hochul intervened in the standard hiring process. Scholars need to pay close attention to attacks on inquiry + learning. ED "dear colleagues" letter deadline is tomorrow, unless a judge intervenes.

Democracy Forward represents @aftunion.bsky.social, @aftmaryland.bsky.social & @asanews.bsky.social, in lawsuit challenging the Dept of Ed's new policy threatening to withhold federal funding for education institutions that do not comply with its weaponization of civil rights laws. (1/2)

Proud to be a member ( @asanews.bsky.social )and former member ( @aftunion.bsky.social - as a NYC teacher) of the 2 orgs suing over the dangerous "Dear Colleagues" letter from OCR of the Dept of Education. Hopeful court stops this before Friday. democracyforward.org/updates/chal...

This gets at something I've been trying to articulate about the attacks on science and the academy. I've seen folks worried that our work matters (and I've worried this myself). But there is no bigger confirmation that it matters than these irrational freaks attacking it.

As we’ve seen repeatedly since 2015, the US media & political leadership are wholly incapable of adequately handling creeping authoritarianism. Normalizing at every turn, taking the “high” road, engaging in pathological bothsidesism. They continue believing it couldn’t happen here. It’s happening.

@victorerikray.bsky.social has a new piece in @theemancipator.org! "Couching bigotry in concern about “qualifications” (which only seems to apply to non-White people) is just the socially acceptable way to launder racist disdain." theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

Anticipatory obedience in action. If they're not willing to resist, I really hope other universities will at the very least resist the urge to comply before they are even required to.

the idea that affirmative action was ever about getting those who are "undeserving" into an institution or position has always been a racist lie. the root of the matter has always been, as Justice Blackmun wrote in Bakke, "among the qualified, how does one choose?"

Just tuning into clips of this hearing. Chilling to think Hegseth's background, and his refusal to answer questions, don't automatically unqualify him. Chilling.

Once again, Trump takes on “That Tiny, Tiny Little Fish,” blaming Delta Smelt protections for water shortages in fighting the #LAFires. Sociologist @calebscoville.bsky.social wrote about the political coherence behind such fishy rhetoric back in Sept: contexts.org/blog/tiny-little-fish/

Seeing the snowy pics from all over the east coast makes me so jealous sitting here in Cambridge, where all we got was cold air!

Last from the archive-I was not misremembering my pay as a teacher 25 years ago--37K to teach in NYC! From what I can tell that has more than doubled today-not nearly enough, but better than before. Thank goodness for unions.

Look out 👀 Sociology of Education the ASA journal is on BlueSky! We will be up and running in the new year! @soceducation.bsky.social

@wbur.org this is tragic! Radio Boston has for years been the perfect mix of in-depth coverage of timely issues and general-interest stories, in-between news-news and podcasts. I will miss it!

More from the documents dump: I guess I have always been, um, eclectic, in my interests! But there are threads to today, too...Education, democracy, justice, gender, India, meaning-making.

3rd office move in 5 years, so I'm purging. Favorite find so far: testimony I gave to NY state legislature about performance-based assessment over standardized testing--which 25 years later I wrote about for @bostonglobe.com! More from the archives soon! www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/11/o...

I have often thought about the carbon impact of US colleges priding themselves in geographic diversity. Glad there's now a tool! With so many apps, why not prioritize greener admissions decisions--or have some kind of overall cap on estimated travel-based impact

MA question 2 ended passing MCAS (MA standardized test) as a requirement for high school graduation. I reached back into my NYC teaching, where we used portfolio-based assessment, to consider what's next. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/11/o... @bostonglobe.bsky.social

Finally ditching that other site for this one! Would love any guidance, or is this basically, like the reincarnation of twitter pre-Musk??