Hajar Yazdiha

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Thank you Nessa! 🙏

Thank you friend!! 🙏

Thank you!!

Thank you!! I hope students find it helpful! 🙏

⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:

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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

Check out this new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History focused on "Immigration and Citizenship" edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social:

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

SAME. We all felt that catharsis.

Yes. But after that one ep when Whitney took her by the shoulders, told her to put down her plant, and stop texting Jarebear for a minute to prioritize her daughter, and she still remained dead in the eyes (and brain?), I knew all hope was lost for that woman. Her poor kid.

USC declines Trump administration compact - Daily Trojan The University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University have also declined the compact which was sent to nine colleges Oct. 1.

USC IS OUT!

Let me tell y'all, the emergency meetings that got called yesterday and today...

dailytrojan.com/2025/10/16/u...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr...

We have the same dad.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Speaking as someone with experience: stuff like this reveals both a) how pissed off sources are and b) who the respected reporters are among people who know their stuff, who may not be at the outlets you expect!!

📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.

Fresh discoveries are rewriting U.S. history amid backlash from conservatives A new generation of historians have produced works challenging old myths

In the authoritarian playbook, rewriting collective memory is just this critical strategy for controlling the masses," Hajar Yazdiha..."

#Pinks

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Our Children’s Fear: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children | CLASP Our country's children are living in fear. This report documents how the current immigration context is impacting our nation’s youngest based on focus groups in six states.

"A CLASP study from 2018 found that children as young as 3 experienced behavioral changes–like frequent crying, separation anxiety, and sleep problems–due to the loss of a parent or the fear of losing a parent. www.clasp.org/publications...

YouTube video by America First Policy Institute ANNOUNCING: America 250 Civics Education Coalition

There's a moment in the Trump regime's America 250 propaganda that takes a swipe at the 1619 Project as "revisionist history."

Well, about that ...

Jobs | City University of New York

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info.

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

They're Organized; We Need to Be Organized, Too Trump and his far-right acolytes wield their power to disinvest from public services, terrorize our neighborhoods with ICE agents, and ensure that opposition to genocide becomes a fireable, and d...

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

If you are employed and feel bad for people losing their careers over politics you share with them, there is one thing and one thing only you can do to help them: FIND THEM WORK. Use EVERY lever of power you have to FIND THEM WORK. Don’t send them job apps, MAKE A JOB FOR THEM. That’s ALL they need

The affective strategies of White unknowing: how police violence reveals the expression of racialized emotions on Twitter Abstract. Racism shapes the ways racialized actors and groups feel about the social world, but how does racism get reproduced through affective politics, t

📢Hot off the presses by Profs @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and Courtney Boen at Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Friends I’m running a 5K in Brooklyn on October 12 as a fundraiser for Gaza & UNRWA. If you can, join us or donate here!

getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Colloquium on Black and Indigenous Women's History 👇🏾

🚨 Job! 🚨

Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).

Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655

Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!