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Dr. Camilla A. Hawthorne

@camillahawth.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Author of Contesting Race and Citizenship (Cornell) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean (Palgrave) and The Black Geographic (Duke). Knitter, accordioness, aerialist.

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πŸŽ™οΈNEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

"In Edward Said's Shadow"

Said wrote most of Orientalism at CASBS in 1975-76. CASBS fellows Shane Dillingham, Thomas Blom Hansen, @camillahawth.bsky.social & @ssinnar.bsky.social discuss the enduring influence of Said's landmark book

🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#edwa...

28.10.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Now accepting applications! www.blackeurope.org

12.10.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kneecap Sheffield Tickets | Octagon Centre - 25/11/2025 | StubHub UK Buy and sell tickets at StubHub for Kneecap's concert at Octagon Centre in Sheffield on 25 Nov 2025.

I'm selling 2 tickets to see KNEECAP in Sheffield, UK on November 25th. Partner and I can no longer make it to that show, but we are seeing them in Ireland in December! www.stubhub.co.uk/kneecap-tick...

05.09.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So excited to perform my tribute to Eartha Kitt in this show on September 20! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/icons-blac...

12.08.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Visitation: policing the bodies of free women on the peripheries of the U.S. prison Very little research has been conducted on the experiences of women who are not physically incarcerated but who nonetheless experience secondary forms of incarceration. In examining the degradation...

Honored to share the posthumously published research of my late, brilliant PhD student kirsten mai castle: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

07.07.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My piece on the need for frameworks that embrace critical, decolonial, non-state-centric approaches is now up as "editor's choice" & free to download! @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social

It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

24.06.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out the newest episode of Conjuncture in which I speak with critical geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social about racism and xenophobic nationalism in the US and Italy. This season is co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/italy-the-us...

01.06.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Camilla Hawthorne on the U.S., Italy, and Xenophobic Nationalism | S4 Ep. 6
YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute Camilla Hawthorne on the U.S., Italy, and Xenophobic Nationalism | S4 Ep. 6

CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social explains the importance of employing a relational theorization to gain insights into American & Italian common histories & 'common disasters' in this absorbing episode of the podcast Conjuncture

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_X...

29.05.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"We see the same thing happening in the U.S., Italy, and everywhere fascism is rearing its head," geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social tells me in the new episode of Conjuncture. Produced with @cheatherton.bsky.social + co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/jG_X1wOqVdY. 1/2

28.05.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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US Aims to Abolish Birthright Citizenship: Italy Already Knows the Consequences On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled β€œProtecting the Meaning and Value of American

Look to Italy for a foreshadowing of the damaging consequences a rollback of birthright citizenship would have on American society as a whole, explains CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social in this coauthored piece

lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2025...

24.05.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon. Pleased to share stills from forthcoming interview with @camillahawth.bsky.social for new episode of Conjuncture. We discuss resurgent racisms and neo-fascism in Italy, the U.S., & the politics of theory. Co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social. More soon...

21.05.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Real Threat of the Nonprofit β€œTerrorism” Provision in Trump’s Big Bill The Trump administration has already wielded the β€œterrorist” label to stigmatize and strip rights from student activists and migrants.

My new op-ed about the terrorism provision slipped into the budget bill: "At a time of growing American authoritarianism, the last thing Congress should be doing is granting new powers to the president to destroy civil society groups that stand in his way."
slate.com/news-and-pol...

18.05.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I spoke with the Outlaw Podcast about the dangers that terrorism laws pose for protest movements -- and the importance of collective resistance and solidarity.

19.05.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Geography as story | Culture as Struggle | Transnational racialization & contested belonging

In her CASBS fellows seminar, @camillahawth.bsky.social & collaborators presented parts of an in-progress doc film exploring the collision & synthesis of Black & Italian cultures through music, film, & food

10.05.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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European History Quarterly Roundtable: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production - Bolaji Balogun, Sarah Demart, Claire Eldridge, Chandra Frank, Camilla Hawthorne, Stefanie Mic...

CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social a coauthor writing in European History Quarterly ( @sagepub.com) on "the place of race and racialized identities within European history and how this relates to broader questions about knowledge production."

OPEN ACCESS ➑️ journals.sagepub.com/eprint/MTDK2...

11.04.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ™οΈThe latest from the #Identities Podcast!

Episode 4: The Black Atlantic Revisited

With @jean23bean.bsky.social in conversation with @mamefatouniang.bsky.social, @alimeghji.bsky.social & @camillahawth.bsky.social

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/epi...

01.11.2024 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 4: The Black Atlantic Revisited The Identities Podcast Β· Episode

πŸŽ™οΈHave you listened to Episode 4 of the #Identities Podcast?

The Black Atlantic Revisited

With @jean23bean.bsky.social in conversation with
@mamefatouniang.bsky.social, @alimeghji.bsky.social & @camillahawth.bsky.social

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/epi...

10.11.2024 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Trying to build a starter kit for Black Europe and Afropean scholars and activists - but many ppl I can think of are not (yet) on blusky. I need HELP πŸ–€

@eraldo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @afropean.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @camillahawth.bsky.social @jeannetteoho.bsky.social

18.11.2024 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 202    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1
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Memory, Forgetfulness, and Multidimensional Acts of Resistance In this dialogic intervention, we discuss the multiple dimensions of forgetting in Italian history and historiography through both temporal and geographical lenses. To do so, we begin by exploring ...

NEW ARTICLE in the journal Italian Culture by CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social (& coauthors Angelica Pesarini & Barbara Ofosu-Somuah) on colonial amnesia & the politics of memory

"Memory, Forgetfulness, and Multidimensional Acts of Resistance"

πŸ‘‰ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

02.12.2024 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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