Anne Garland Mahler

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15. Check out our latest titles in Latinx studies including work by @emmaamador.bsky.social, @maiagiladi.bsky.social, @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, & @arlenedavila.bsky.social.
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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.

Cover of A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe by Anne Garland Mahler. The top half features bold white text on a black background. Below, a sepia-toned photograph shows a fishing net strung across a sandy landscape, with shadows and scattered footprints in the sand. The subtitle appears in large white and orange text layered over the photo.

One of our exciting new books this month is "A Wide Net of Solidarity," by @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, which shows how the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA) provides vital insight for social movements fighting racial and economic injustice today. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

A Wide Net of Solidarity

#NewBook alert! A Wide Net of Solidarity (@dukepress.bsky.social) by 2020 ACLS Fellow @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas on racial justice and anti-extractive struggles from the early 20th century to the present.

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There’s nothing like holding it in your hands!! @dukepress.bsky.social

Palestinians mourn Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel; starvation toll rises Palestinians have held funerals for the five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza, as toll from hunger rises.

Palestinians have held funerals for the five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza, as toll from hunger rises.

Cover of A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe by Anne Garland Mahler. The top half features bold white text on a black background. Below, a sepia-toned photograph shows a fishing net strung across a sandy landscape, with shadows and scattered footprints in the sand. The subtitle appears in large white and orange text layered over the photo.

In "A Wide Net of Solidarity," @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas on racial justice and anti-extractive struggles from the early 20th century to the present. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Rv0znyL

Look who’s in Duke’s catalogue!

Events — A National Day of Action for Higher Ed Organize your April 17 Day of Action for Higher Education action now! You can also register for a virtual action. See you April 17!

⭐️⭐️TODAY is the #DayofActionforHigherEd! 👏👏 We couldn’t be more excited! With more than 175 events across the country and a slate of online events there are SO many ways to participate. Join us as we fight to #FreeHigherEdNow! 👊

www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events

If you are okay with this, with any of this, please do something for your future self:
Please write down, privately, the thing that would officially be Too Much for you. 🧵

Proofs!!

University professors condemn UVA’s decision to dissolve central DEI office Virginia professors have condemned the University of Virginia’s (UVA) decision to dissolve its central office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and are asking for its Board of Visitors…

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Opinion | How Silicon Valley boys came to rule politics Elon Musk is projecting the kind of adolescent masculinity the tech world appreciates.

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EDITORIAL: DEI belongs at U.Va. The bottom line is that an institutional shift has occurred. Today, DEI is done at the University — and we are all worse off because of it.

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They’re now disappearing documented student activists.

7. Would you rather be “shrill” but finish your sentence or polite but interrupted by your male colleague?

Against Latin American Regionalisms: The 1927 Brussels Congress and the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas This article examines the encounter of activists from the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA) with African, African American, and Asian anticolonial intellectuals through the League Agains...

Happy to share that my article “Against Latin American Regionalisms: The 1927 Brussels Congress and the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas” received honorable mention for the 2025 LARR–University of Florida Article Award.

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A Photography of Relation: Indigeneity, Anti-Imperialism, and Tina Modotti's Visual Language of Liberation This essay argues for a re-examination of the work of renowned Italian-born photographer Tina Modotti through the lens of “relational aesthetics.” Studying her photography in Mexico alongside her invo...

My new article in Cultural Critique! “A Photography of Relation: Indigeneity, Anti-Imperialism, and Tina Modotti’s Visual Language of Liberation.” www.academia.edu/127534953/A_...

Copyedits done! Happy new year!

The words guiding me into 2025 belong to the one and only Elizabeth Betita Martínez: "With all the struggles, remember to keep life sweet."

You’re too kind! I’ll always remember those days in the library with you 💙

I just met Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls in an airport bathroom!

Last night I went to the exquisite restaurant Audrey in Nashville, and immediately recognized the work of Alabama artists Jimmie Lee Sudduth and Mose T. At 19, I drove to Sudduth’s house in Fayette. I had saved to buy one of his pieces, which is now in my house. His work hangs in the Smithsonian. 💙

Hi! I’m new here. Im a prof at UVA and scholar of South-South political/cultural movements. I’m also learning to write fiction. Committed to antiracism and feminism. Love dogs, oceans, singing and dancing.