Pamela Zabala Ortiz

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Kicking off year 2 on the tenure track.

Judge blocks Trump’s broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants A federal judge ruled the Trump administration cannot fast-track the deportations of undocumented migrants inside the country without offering them due process.

Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.

#ASA2025 in the books. ✅

#PeroNoSomosRacistas: examining Dominican (anti)blackness in a time of global racial reckoning Black Lives Matter 2020 broke beyond the borders of the U.S. and spurred antiracist demonstrations across the world, showing both the pervasiveness of global anti-Black racism and the ways in which...

My newest article , "#PeroNoSomosRacistas: examining Dominican (anti)blackness in a time of global racial reckoning,” is now available online.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 During #BlackLivesMatter 2020, Dominicans used social media to engage in transnational discourses about Dominican Blackness and anti-Blackness. Article @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2531297

Honored to be a 2025 recipient of the Andrés Torres Paper Series Award from The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy.

Coming soon!

Meet our affiliate of the month for April, Dr. Pamela Zabala Ortiz! She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, with her work centering around migration, racism, and racial stratification in the US and Latin America. Her affiliate article is linked below!
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Don’t you dare “circle back” on January 2nd!!! We gonna ease into this mess as a COMMUNITY.

“We’re Expected to Be Homogenous”: Contesting Latinidad and the Myth of Panethnic Inclusion - Pamela Zabala Ortiz, 2024 The construction of Latines as a racially homogenous group in the U.S. obscures the various contestations and negotiations that differently racialized Latines u...

My newest paper, "'We're Expected to be Homogenous:' Contesting Latinidad and the Myth of Panethnic Inclusion," is now available online.
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Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia?
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together!

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Can you please add me as well? Thanks!

Just got out of an early screening of Wicked. It was everything. And most importantly, nobody sang.

Created this starter pack yesterday.. who else do I need to add?? Share and tag your faves!! #AcademicSky #BlackSky
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She never gets a break. 😭

Newer data on the Latino male vote. Turns out the majority voted Harris. But Dems and liberals jumped the gun and carved out a racist narrative and vilified Latino males. What happens when Trump weaponizes this data against the Dems? And when more Latino males flock to Trump, who is really to blame?

Hi, new followers. Since we're riding out the end times here, I figured I'd introduce myself. I'm a sociologist of race and ethnicity doing work on Latine racialization, Afro-Latine experiences at the intersections of Blackness and Latinidad, and anti-Black racism in the U.S and Latin America.

Hello! I began a starter pack with some folks working on Latina/o/x Studies, it's broadly defined and a work in progress for sure.
Please share and also send more recommendations of folks to include!
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A small watercolor painting of a horrified looking cartoon dumpling.

My phone just auto corrected "trauma dumping" to "trauma dumpling," so I painted this in case anyone would like a visual of my mental state.

How's everyone else doing?

Thank you so much! I can’t wait to be back in Boston!

So to soft launch some news here, I got a job. I’ll be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University next fall. I’m very excited to be in Massachusetts and to start the next stage of my career at BU.

Thank you!

Today I get to celebrate another trip around the sun and the end of my semester. I don’t know which I’m more excited about, to be honest. 🎉

I got so much good news this week it was overwhelming. I can’t wait to share some of it soon.

The rich absolutely do not see everyone else as human. Society is going to end with us killing them and taking their wealth or us being slowly ground down into starvation and mass death while they happily continue to enrich themselves

The front page of tomorrow's Daily Tar Heel via elmunc/Twitter

Made it to Philly for ASA 2023!

Hello conference prep, my old friend.

Arkansas education department nixes AP African American Studies course at last minute Documentation confirming the course would not be recognized by the state arrived roughly 48 hours before the first bell of the school year was set to ring.

A last minute phone call on Friday informed teachers that the Arkansas Department of Education will not recognize AP African American Studies for course credit by the state.

School starts in 2 days. AP European History continues to be offered for full credit.