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I have been teaching at Brown University for 16 years, and have considered campus and Providence as one of the safest places I've ever lived in the U.S. Still, it's happened here.
My heart goes out to those students and families as they deal with this. We owe them better.
Legacies of U.S. intervention shape post-war immigration politics in concrete and consequential ways.
@andykimnj.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov
Take a few seconds to write to your Congressional delegation in support of TPS holders!
actionnetwork.org/letters/5765...
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.
I am not making this up.
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
The corporation for public broadcasting shutting down is awful news for people looking to keep public media’s mission alive.
a brief thread on what it means for public radio:
Wow, congratulations!!!
this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation
Sociologists/social scientists - any suggestions for interview transcription services that value client privacy and data security/confidentiality? #academicsky
Black Americans make up 13% of the population. But as federal government employees, Black employees are:
20% of the Dept. of Health & Human Services
24% of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs
26% of postal workers,
30% of the Dept. of Education
That's the "swamp" Trump is draining.
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Excited to share my first published article! In it, I analyze status adjustment advocacy efforts for post-war Afghan immigrants as racial projects of imperial model minority racialization, connecting literatures on racial formation, empire, and refugee migration.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
When I say they hope to overturn the Civil Rights Act I get looked at like I’ve lost my critical faculties.
But here is Rufo, in the New York Times, saying they want to overturn the Civil Rights Act (and use anti-discrimination law to protect white people).
For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia.
No one is free until Palestine is free.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
