I see a lot of graduation posts getting love.... I want some of that too🥹😅

Artists play an important role in protest movements, and this is a growing area of study in SM studies
Here Macklemore on the student encampments and Gaza, and much more :
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Excited to be named a 2024 Sacred Writes Public Scholar & join the new cohort of fellows working at the intersection of race, justice, and religion! Can’t think of a better time to be studying the racialization of religious politics! 🎊✊🏾✝️

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Shaonta' Allen Dr. Shaonta' Allen Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology Dartmouth 🌲
studies how identity markers like religion inform Black political ideology construction. Welcome Shaonta'!

While official race categories continuously change in terms of their labels, boundaries, numbers etc., their underlying taxonomy continues to reproduce colonial conceptions of difference. I wrote about this drawing on the Dutch “non-western allochthone”.

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Angel Reese with the tough bucket on Breanna Stewart 😤

(via Chicago Sky)

From the Little Village barrio en Mexican Chicago…

Dr. Brian Cabral 💜

Whatever that thing is that tells you Black people in general… and Black women specifically need to be or deserve to be handled rough… needs to die

Live shot of me right now, desperately trying to finish this paper I committed to write... #AcWri

“The students don’t know what they’re talking about”

The students:

academic diss track title: All the Wrong People Have Imposter Syndrome

The intro AND part 1 of my book, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist, are available to download for free at academic.oup.com/book/55181! Snag your PDFs, then order a copy for 30% off using discount code AAFLYG6 on the OUP website

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As attention to police violence grows, the civ legal support for residents they harm stagnates, illustrating what I call a legal mirage—a knowable legal process exists to pursue your rights, but a variety of structural/human/$ barriers make it unreachable. 1/7

New book blurb! Pre-order today:

“A pathbreaking work full of explosive findings on the coordination of white supremacy, corrections, policing, and the lies to cover it up. Carceral Apartheid will shock readers and make headlines.' Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
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There's a certain subset of immigrants who directly benefit from the labor of African American people, who get a proportion of their opportunities solely because they aren't AA--but are still Black, who go out of their way to talk wild about AA people. No systemic awareness.

❗️I am beyond honored and thrilled to join this incredible group of scholars as a 2024 Carnegie fellow Carnegie Corporation of New York tackling questions about strengthening social cohesion! #CarnegieFellows carnegie.io/3JLtUV8

At the end of the semester, the semester gotta end.
- a tired professor

Today, Sociologists for Palestine sent an open Letter to ASA Council regarding academic freedom.

Over the the last two weeks, we witnessed students & faculty working together to protest & build encampments meant to draw attention to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. 1/

Angel Reese at THE Met Gala.

Now that is IMPACT.

Anyways, was reading Zora Neale Hurston’s Characteristics of Negro expression, and I just KNOW she would’ve loved the rap beef going on rn. She believed fighting (and making love) were forms of high art