Alexa Sparks

Police Against the Movement A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...

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Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️

TWO MORE DAYS to apply! Thriving, collegial department in a healthy public regional university in a beautiful town! Let me know if you have questions.

Trans people just want the right to exist safely as their true selves, like everyone else.

But they’ve become easy scapegoats for the GOP, who vilify them and threaten to criminalize their very existence.

It's straight from the authoritarian playbook.

Has anyone written a piece connecting the apocalypticism of 2012 to the current crisis in the same way that historians connect the millenarian cults of the early modern period to the crises of their moments?

If not, I think someone should!

We’re going to keep adding to this, but here is our initial labor movement starter pack!
go.bsky.app/T5TigE2

For the Europeanists who follow me, recent events have had me thinking a lot about the choices of the SPD at the end of the Weimar. Does anyone have any good reads about the true last days of the SPD (1930-1934)?

Hello historians! I would like to mention that I have this initiative called the Iberian Colonial Repository, where I am gathering primary sources from archives that are not available online. If you have sources about colonial LatAm from previous projects collecting digital dust, please DM me

I’m no expert but I feel like a slew of “the economy is going to boom under Trump” articles a week after finance markets predict overheating is… not great?

The Biden economy is about to get a new salesman: Donald Trump Trump hammered the administration for creating an “economic catastrophe,” but some of his favorite gauges for assessing economic performance have been humming.

"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could not sell voters on the strength of the economy. Now, Donald Trump is poised to enter the White House with booming markets and solid growth. Expect him to reap the political rewards." www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Every single Democrat who voted for this is not taking the threat of Trump remotely seriously and should be disqualified from any leadership positions moving forward. This is no longer business as usual. To agree to give him this kind of power is beyond egregious.

In other words, looks like I’ll be using BlueSky more!

That many creatives have chosen to migrate to BlueSky might one day be a footnote in a thesis which compares the two capitalisms of 21st century America: “woke” financial capitalism which distances itself from the state and a conservative capitalism which latches itself onto it.

How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement The 1968 action led to greater economic mobility for Black workers. Today, union activists are trying to capture some of that spirit.

I spoke @nytimes.com about Black workers and unions in 1968 & today

Alabama guard accused of encouraging prisoners to murder organizer of strikes: Complaint alleges a Lt. encouraged prisoners to murder a lead organizer in the 2022 AL prison strikes. “Even if y’all killed him, I’ll make sure nothing happens to y’all,”
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