Patricia Goldsworthy

J’étouffe Né en Haïti, dont il a été ministre de la Culture, le réalisateur de I Am Not Your Negro et du Jeune Karl Marx entretient une relation de longue date avec

(as I prep for the last day of French colonialism class).

If you've never read Raoul Peck's J'étouffe, written amidst the BLM protests in the US & France, it's 🔥.

I can't remember whether it was published in English but you can run translate off here & it's not bad: le1hebdo.fr/journal/jeto...

Thanks for the review- I haven’t seen it yet but had such high hopes!

I figured out why #Tirailleurs didn't wow me, despite its earnestness.

1. French films are undefeated in whitewashing French racism. The opening shows forced conscription - but African tirailleurs enforce it with a few whites.

2. The first trauma at the European front is Black-on-Black violence/

Unfortunately my work email is through Gmail

I was just so proud of keeping my unread numbers so low that it ruined my day 😂

At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narratives’ Is In.

This proposed plan (not finalized?) at Montclair State to eliminate departments and disciplines is indeed “insane,” as English professor Adam Rzepka says in this truly wild article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...

Highly recommend!

There are multiple places where you need to turn this off! Check your google workplace settings as well www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Spending the rest of my day mass-deleting...

When I did this Gmail eliminated all my different categories for spam; etc, so my unread messages jumped from 4 to 9700.

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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...

Scorcher

That's so disappointing!

I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...

Congratulations, Nimisha!

My article was selected for Magna Publications "The Best of the 2025 Teaching Professors Conference." It's called "The DEI Debacle: How University Leaders Are Making the Same Mistakes"

Check it out!

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Looking forward to reading it all!

And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific This special issue explores the connected histories of France, Britain, and the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the level of states, colonial administrations, people, practices, and...

Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social

Congratulations!

Copy of my newly arrived book, Enduring Hostility.

back cover of book with description and blurbs

🥳 Look what came in the mail!

My new book on US Iran policy is now available to pre-order from @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. Pub date December 2: www.sup.org/books/politi...

Stay tuned for launch events!

Congratulations!

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

For some observers, it was an irresistible irony that actual thefts had occurred at an institution long accused of cultural theft"

"it was reported that individual records for some 2.4 million items at the British Museum were lacking, calling into question its long-standing, and sometimes arrogantly expressed, claim to be an unimpeachable custodian for vulnerable artifacts. .

I had not! Thanks- reading it now!