Natasha Warikoo

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New #Identities Symposium:

'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter

In our latest issue:
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'The benefits of longitudinal ethnography'

Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium:

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I loved revisiting the lives of the young men in The Asian Gang for this review of the Asian Gang Revisited. The book came out just as I started graduate school and I learned a lot from it back then as well as now!

Book Forum | American Sociological Association Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality (Session Organizer) Aaron Benanav; (Session Organizer) Sigrid Willa Luhr,

Please join a Book Forum discussion of my book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools at the ASA conference in less than 2 weeks! Monday 2 pm Central I can't wait! @soceducation.bsky.social www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...

things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus.

many congratulations you guys! So well deserved!!

All of this makes me feel disconnected from those I'm communicating with, whether close friends or people I've never even met. It's the mere possibility of AI mediating interactions. I can't see how we go back, either. 4/4

And now my new iphone uses AI to summarize text threads. But I want to hear my friends in their authentic voices! I want to feel them in the room, and notice the nuance with which they write. The AI summary takes that away in the name of efficiency. 3/4

It's made me realize just how much I value and appreciate the way that words connect us. I didn't realize this until AI was constantly in the backdrop, whether or not someone has used it. 2/4

As much as I try to be open-minded, I feel a real loss with AI's presence. During any ritual (most recently, graduation & other inspirational speeches), rather than take in the beauty and complexity of a speaker's words, I keep wondering if it truly coming from their soul or from AI. 1/4

This is a must read/cite/teach article from @nwarikoo.bsky.social.

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My hope is that the piece will help some make sense of the success of the attacks on affirmative action and the problems with the diversity frame. I hope many scholars are developing studies to understand the short- and long-term impacts of the decision, which I believe will be profound. 4/4

The reverse discrimination frame has proved even more powerful than I understood when I finished the piece pre-inauguration. Note today's White House discussion about white Afrikaners, despite every other refugee/asylum-seeking group being rejected and some even removed. 3/4

Who knew that even the diversity frame--which many, including myself, critiqued--would come under systematic attack by the federal government. And that Trump would rescind Johnson's 1965 EO requiring affirmative action in firms with federal contracts. 2/4

The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

On this Earth Day 2025, it seems like a good day to remind everyone about how we are going to / need to Save Ourselves. Check out my TEDTalk for details 👇

Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.

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This is the book that lays out just world theory with evidence (lots since then, too): a.co/d/6iPNTJE

More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks "Catch and Revoke" has been in operation, the official said. There are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide.

We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

Guy out of frame: "You don't look like police. Why are you hiding your faces? Why are you hiding your faces?"

Video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student - The Boston Globe Within seconds, five officers surrounded a Tufts PhD student from Turkey, and she was pleading with them, according to a security camera recording of the arrest obtained by the Globe.

Video of arrest of Tufts international student today is harrowing. I am speechless. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

harrowing account of detainees' arrival in El Salvador. No human should be treated like this, even if accused/convicted of a crime. We are guilty of crimes against humanity.

Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

Every elite college president (and board member) needs to read @charlieeaton.bsky.social clear-eyed take on how large endowments can and should be used by universities as sites for truth-seeking in a democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Opinion | What should come after DEI? PFJ. Although dismantling DEI was wrong, something better can replace it.

This piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social captures something I wish more were talking about: now that SCOTUS + POTUS have dismantled the utility of the weak diversity/DEI frame on race, we might as well emphasize power, equity, and justice: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... @washingtonpost.com

Dming you for deets...

Beautiful thread about my wonderful colleague Sam Sommers. He was also a wonderful Tufts community member. I had LOTS of questions as I prepared to teach my department's intro class for the first time this semester--and was so generous and gracious with my endless queries. And so much more, too.