The report barely mentions the right-wing moral panic around higher ed, and the growing irrationalism of the GOP. Its methodology is basically “AAUP says this, Heterodox Academy says that, the truth must lie somewhere in the middle”
The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights:
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it won't take long, but if it's someone I don't know, I can pay you for whatever time it takes
is anyone planning to visit National Archives - College Park in the near future? I'm looking for someone to download a few digitized files on premises, to avoid paying their duplication fee for remote requests
nearly *7 years* wait on a routine FOIA request to declassify a thin FBI file (125 pages)
good stuff in the Missouri Historical Review (July 2024)
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you're right, there was just one meeting. the same SA wrote two reports about it, on different dates and with different information, hence my confusion
don't talk to the FBI without a lawyer present, ideally an experienced movement lawyer. don't invite them into your apartment and try to politely deflect their questions, they may twist anything you say
that was her second interview with the FBI
according to the agent - whose account may be inaccurate - "The only person she [Lorde] mentioned during the [first] interview that she considered a Communist was her former room-mate, Ruth Heit."
book launch w/ @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social
Tuesday, Nov. 11
6:30 pm Central time / 7:30 pm Eastern Time
f2f in Chicago + live stream anywhere. donations appreciated
No Neutrals There book cover
In his new book, No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, historian Jeff Schuhrke explains that the U.S. labor movement has never been neutral when it comes to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Review by Digital Organizer Samantha Cooney: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...
Hotels, restaurants, pools, parks, gas stations, restrooms, drinking fountains and roadside stops were not equally open to all Americans. The Green Book Project archives the data and memorializes this important history of segregation greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
Arun Kundnani (@arunkundnani.bsky.social), "Can Universities be Antiracist? Liberal Scholarship in Genocidal Times," Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 103 (2025), pp. 107-117
@pmheideman.bsky.social provides a precis of a classic by Claus Offe, a giant of critical sociology who recently passed along
I look forward to meeting you at the conference, Andrew
On the “Black Liberal Arts Tradition.” Morehouse next Thursday thru Saturday. If you’re in ATL come through. Some great papers and keynotes from Joshua Myers and Crystal Sanders.
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Ann Fagan Ginger, presente!
Ann Fagan Ginger wrote or edited more than 20 books.
I learned a lot about repression and resistance during the McCarthy era from her The Cold War Against Labor (2 vols., co-edited with David Christiano)
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In 2001, Ann pressured Harvard University to finally acknowledge firing her first husband, the historian Ray Ginger, for his refusal to comply with Massachusetts' "un-American activities" board in 1954.
When the Berkeley Free Speech Movement erupted in October 1964, Ann spoke from atop the police car that students had surrounded in Sproul Plaza, affirming their right to assemble there.
"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵
I posted more about Chivers here:
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I do have some doubts about its accuracy, because King's college transcript doesn't list the professors' names, and Morehouse allowed students to take "exchange" classes at other HBCUs in Atlanta
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