If you haven't given this a read yet, please do! The corollary to the academic job crisis and the defunding of the humanities is the concentration of opportunity among elites. What will it take to make the working conditions necessary for making humanistic knowledge a reality for all of us?

really looking forward !

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

Getting back into the swing of things after many moons of mostly academic writing with this fun piece on African women in the #wnba for @thecontinent.org.

(Rather than overload alt text, get the screen readable version here. It’s a free magazine sent to your phone wa.me/27738056068?...)

Excited to present at the @globalsolidarity.bsky.social workshop tomorrow in Malmö!

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The Long History of the U.S. Backing White South Africans The recent welcoming of Afrikaner refugees is the latest chapter in a history of U.S. support for white South Africans.

After yesterday’s fiasco at the White House with the South African President - an important piece by
Stanford prof. Joel Cabrita, discussing America’s support for Apartheid & Afrikaners, & the pushing of false claims

time.com/7287684/hist...

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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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In Kiswahili “hope” or “courage” is something you give to yourself (jipe moyo).

grateful to the fantastic editors at @historywo.bsky.social for their careful and caring work !

New for @historywo.bsky.social - a piece on South African exiles in socialist Tanzania, the 1976 Soweto student movement, and the lasting resonance of self-reliance

Tufts University pushes for release of student grabbed off the street by immigration officials The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials.

The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

Postdoc Opportunity!

The Tulane Global Humanities Center, Postdoctoral Fellows

Recent PhDs who explore: port cities, global flows, blue humanities, critical ocean studies, logistics, and/or transnational environmental humanities.
Region and historical period open.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Duke Says ‘White Lotus’ Went ‘Too Far’ With School References In a show that features an array of disturbing story lines, the actions — and wardrobe — of a character have gone “too far” for the university.

Yes it’s all fascism right now but holy cricket on a cracker, let’s all God’s children gather round to make fun of Duke being the saddest, most pathetic privileged whiners in the history of institutions:

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...

Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.

the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles

Congratulations !!

The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.

A New Editor Contingent is hiring a new editor! This person will join Erin Bartram and Marc Reyes as the permanent third editor for the magazine as we enter our seventh year of publication this spring. We’re looki...

We're hiring a new editor. Please share widely!

Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...

glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine

thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/

Filmmaker Raoul Peck: ‘Ernest Cole’s photographs were not about artistry, they were about fighting’ The director’s new documentary sheds light on the South African who portrayed the injustices of apartheid and pain of exile

One great on another. www.ft.com/content/6ed2...

Front cover, The Second Emancipation.

Back cover.

Delighted to receive a package of bound galleys of my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Out in August.

It’s academic interview season so I thought I’d share here what I share with my advisees about campus visits. First up—job talk, then teaching demo, meals. Pan out and pro tip—your job is leave with them thinking of you as an 🔥exciting new colleague who wants to be there.🔥

Hello new follower! Are _you_ (yes, you!) my new reviews co-editor at the Journal of Contemporary History? We cover the whole world post-1930, get a share of the royalties, and meet once a year in the UK. Original thread with more info (though never mind the language preferences) below: