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Françoise Hamlin

@francoisehamlin.bsky.social

Teacher, writer, mama (2 and 4 legged). Associate Professor at Brown; author of Crossroads at Clarksdale (2012), co-edited These Truly Are The Brave (2015) and From Rights To Lives (2024) & republished Vera Pigee's autobio, The Struggle of Struggles (2023)

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rancid. Love it. In a nutshell.

17.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Luna Celeste went to campus to do more tests for the Dog Lab. Given she's never worked a day in her life, doing something for science is the least she can do - for copious amounts of treats. I just chauffeured her & took her on her victory lap for students to fawn over her... #lunacelestechronicles

13.11.2025 03:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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well...

05.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Luna Celeste and I have been part of a canine science study at Brown. She passed the last series of sessions! #lunacelestechronicles

31.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@francoisehamlin.bsky.social & I are co-editors of a book series w/UNC Press called Boundless South & we are seeking more authors for the series. Below are the first two books in the series. DM us if you've got an idea or a proposal. We'll also be at #2025SHA uncpress.org/series/bound...

30.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Karen Cox & I are co-editors of a book series, Boundless South (UNC Press). See the first two amazing books. Jason Young's The Mask of Memory (2026) & a paperback ed. of Alecia Long's Cruising for Conspirators. Contact us with ideas! See us@SHA next week. Please share.
uncpress.org/series/bound...

30.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not a fan but it takes AI out of the picture. Pick your poison.

29.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blue. Books. Back to basics!

28.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Boundless South Series Editors: Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte & Françoise N. Hamlin, Brown University  The Boundless South series publishes books that are regional, readable, an...

As co-editors of the Boundless South series at UNC Press, @francoisehamlin.bsky.social & we want to hear from you. If you plan to attend #2025SHA & you've got a book you'd like to us to consider we will be in St. Pete. DM us or send an email even if you can't make it.

uncpress.org/series/bound...

26.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

GOP only has time to pardon disgraced George Santos, but zero time to swear in elected official Grijalva…

21.10.2025 12:23 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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10.10.2025 01:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From Rights To Lives is a 2024 Hooks National Book Award Finalist!

07.10.2025 00:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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She's live! Check it out. www.journals.uvm.edu/jbms/. Honored to serve as the inaugural editor-in-chief.

01.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

The Journal of Black Military Studies is launched and ready for submissions! A diamond access online journal. I am honored to serve as the inaugural editor-in-chief. www.journals.uvm.edu/jbms/

29.09.2025 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

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If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword. Be careful how you live.

11.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No exaggeration!

04.09.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who's the snowflake?

12.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s worth noting that Trump is borrowing from Netanyahu’s playbook with whatever he is attempting in DC.

11.08.2025 03:55 — 👍 671    🔁 102    💬 8    📌 4
#FromRightstoLives | AAIHS African American Intellectual History Society

#fromrightstolives has a roundtable discussion with some very distinguished writers! Check it out! www.aaihs.org/tag/fromrigh...

15.07.2025 23:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where's the lie?

13.07.2025 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#historymatters

08.07.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#historymatters

08.07.2025 16:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Online Roundtable–The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle - AAIHS July 14th to July 18th, 2025 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on From Rights To Lives: The Evolu...

The online roundtable of From Rights To Lives! with Charles McKinney, Shannon King, Marcia Chatelain, Wesley Hogan, and Brett Gadsden www.aaihs.org/online-round...

30.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Finally, some good news! xoxox

27.06.2025 03:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Black Perspectives: An online roundtable on From Rights To Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle ed. by me & ChuckMcKinney, July 14-18, with MarciaChatelain, BrettGadsden, WesleyHogan & ShannonKing.

lnkd.in/eieeYs5W

24.06.2025 02:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

seems more folks on the Dem side of things willing to speak plainly about the situation. cajoling more of this on the local and state level (the victims in this case were state legislators!) would be a further positive development

15.06.2025 23:45 — 👍 218    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 1

If you can't yet see the 1933 Germany parallels, you either skipped out on history, or you're disturbingly comfortable repeating it. [repost, not my words] #historymatters

12.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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