Come check out @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social's fantastic AMA today on @askhistorians.bsky.social for Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal!
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"During the early twentieth century, developers sold residential segregation to affluent white parents as one piece of a larger, child-centered environment that included new schools, playgrounds, better sanitation, and quieter streets."
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If you’re in the Triad area on Tuesday, this will be an interesting book talk with @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social and MUSEws.
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@kallienebenjamin.bsky.social joins WUNC's Due South to talk about her new book GOOD PARENTS, BETTER HOMES, AND GREAT SCHOOLS 📻
Listen here👇
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@kallienebenjamin.bsky.social's Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools--which tells the story of how early 20th cent. suburbanization preyed on parents' insecurities--is fabulous
I'm adding parts of it to my session on Tiebout sorting in my Politics of Ed class
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Have you checked out today's new release? GOOD PARENTS, BETTER HOMES, & GREAT SCHOOLS by @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social adds a new dimension to the history of residential segregation but also helps explain why that legacy has been so difficult to undo 👇
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So exciting!!
Books!!! I'm so grateful to Matt Lassiter, Richard Rothstein, @eherbin.bsky.social, @judithkafka.bsky.social, @nrooks.bsky.social, @tracylsteffes.bsky.social & @trounstine.bsky.social for their thoughtful and generous words of support...
🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social 💐
It's here! @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social
Looks good.
Really looking forward to reading this book!
@kallienebenjamin.bsky.social's Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools (out in July) shows how segregation was built into our systems by white middle-class parenting ideals. So many school/housing decisions today feel personal but they’re shaped by a long history of policy-driven segregation.
I'm very excited for folks to read @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social release this summer.
It is a tremendous addition to this body of knowledge and written in an accessible style that should help folks see the parallels to the present-day.
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Dr. Jane Goodall Medal 🏅 of Honor Recipient 🦍💙🌎🕊️☮️
She lived in Wilmington for several years.
Born a year after Edwin Hubble discovered that our Milky Way galaxy was just one of countless other galaxies that populate the universe.
Smart, kind, and gentle. Not sure if they make 'em like that anymore.
RIP Jimmy Carter (1924 - 2024).
Earthrise.
Taken #OTD 56 years ago.
In terms of seeing that we're all on this one single planet, it's one of the most important photos ever taken.
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
After fifteen years in the making, my book is finally coming out July 2025. 🤸🤸♂️🤸♀️ It is available for pre-order on the UNC Press site:
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Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! @uncpress.bsky.social
43 years ago - Bad Brains, November 1981
Pictured from left: Dr. Know (Gary Miller), H.R. (Paul Hudson), Earl Hudson (front) and Darryl Jenifer.
Photo by Glen E Friedman
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory
Two spiral galaxies take up almost the entire view and appear to be overlapping. They are angled from top left to bottom right. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller and more compact than the galaxy at right, NGC 2207. The background of space is black, dotted with tiny foreground stars and extremely distant galaxies.
Colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 (MIRI image).
🔭 🧪
A black flying fox got caught on an antenna just near palm trees he was probably feeding in. We were fortunate & thankful to have a cherry-picker operator to help with the rescue! The young fella is now happily recovering, with the help of some fresh juicy mango 🥭 🦇
It wouldn't be the holiday season without the Pee Wee Christmas Special featuring the one and only Grace Jones.
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