@drconvictsandcane.bsky.social
Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
Everything is just too much. 🤦🏾♂️
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He’d better. Glad he is winning but he definitely doesn’t need to burn bridges heading into the general.
Agreed!
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Just wait until they abolish birthright citizenship. 🤦🏾♂️ This Court is compromised!!
My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.
Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳
Keep them coming! Will start assigning your TikToks to my survey students! Good stuff!!
Sounds good! Thanks for hipping me to the Disappearing Spoon podcast today! Working on my book manuscript about sugar cultivation and convict labor in Texas, as you may know, so I enjoy all sugar content that connects in meaningful ways. Tadman is proud too! Still gagging over the Hitler bit! Yikes
Such a beautiful day in Oklahoma. Tough to make this trip to the library to write, especially after a good plate of griot and diri djon djon! And they never give you enough pikliz!🤬🤬
No relation between the author and subjects, right? I know of Cater’s work on the Scottsboro boys and some of his work on Wallace. This is an interesting one to me. I think Asa has some wild Texas connections, so I am already hooked!
Houston-area politics is looking decidedly old. Mayor John Whitmire, age 76, already announced he’s running for reelection in 2028. Annise Parker, the former mayor and current frontrunner to replace Lina Hidalgo as Harris County Judge, is 69. The median age of its city council is roughly 55.
Carter G. Woodson “believed that if he didn’t document the chronicles of Black people and people from the African diaspora, if he didn’t write this record, that Black people wouldn’t be acknowledged with their humanity” (Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State Uni)
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Same. And what tenure dossier?🫢🤷🏾♂️
This guy is dropping truth. Awesome man.
« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Sadly, they were a huge part of my personal anti-Bernie persona. 🤭🤭 That crew has always been deeply problematic. Deeply.
“Low enrollment“ is always a bad argument (tho one that many humanists buy into in worries about “declining” majors) but it’s a particular sham at a research university. These are vital, active research fields that produce important knowledge, which is why research universities must support them.
Teaching the Boston Massacre this week. 🤦🏾♂️
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
The American people are systematically deluded about their own country. We have worse health outcomes, more shootings, more people in prison, less vacation, less paid time off, less parental leave, higher childcare costs, higher infant mortality, lower social trust ... on & on & on.
How inclusive! 🤭🤣🤣
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THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Audley Moore, “Queen Mother” of Black Nationalism and a power in US Black radical politics for more than seven decades, are finally given their due in this compelling, deeply researched biography. SOLID A
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing.
Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor.
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So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.
“I am somebody!”
I grew up obsessed with the sound of Black orators whose voices alone felt like they could open heaven, even as they fought to help Black folks find peace here on earth.
Knowing how much Jesse Jackson loved our people taught me to love and struggle for us too.
A true legend.
Reverend Jesse Jackson was one of America’s greatest patriots. He spent his life summoning all of us to fulfill the promise of America and building the coalitions to make that promise real.
