I once heard @tressiemcphd say that the best scholars are good storytellers. All of my favorite sociologists were ones who wrote the South. I wanted to follow in that tradition & use storytelling to bear witness on NC to use words honestly, beautifully .

there is no training to prepare you to deal with the passing of one of your students. so much of our engagement with them is about their future that we take for granted, particularly for Black students, how much is denying them of one.

"I used to talk about growing up poor as if it is something that left" -Hanif Abdurraqib.

lucky, i have been getting dope feedback recently on my work and it sucks that many others don't get that.

i would respect reviewers who said "i don't feel like this article is quite there yet, but I'm not sure if i personally know what it needs," rather than giving out random recommendations for the sake of giving recommendations.

RT @CulturedModesty: Wesleyan University’s Department of American Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant Prof….

RT @DukeAAAS: "We are not merely researching and writing the matter of our books here. We are researching and writing the matter of our l….

I realized I was a writer when I knew my life depended on it. It didn’t matter if I was good or if I ever produced a finished project. I knew I was a writer because it was the only thing that calmed the noise.

RT @Rosscharles03: Such a dope book. A must read for Hip-hop studies. @CoreyMiles__ did his thing!

RT @SouthRevBooks: "VIBE questions how much choice one has living in a system designed to control and contain.". Read more from this new re….

shout out to my cover artist who got me so many compliments @theblackonion__.

Vibe won the 2025 Outstanding Book Award for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Winning an International popular music studies book award for a book about the American South speaks to how beautiful our lives and stories are.

one metric to understand if a black film actually does a good job engaging issues of race is when white people believe support for it means supporting black social issues.

RT @Ericangelo_ms: “Any theory you got, practice it. And when you practice it, you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct….

RT @allenanalysis: Of course the Medicaid cuts don’t hit until 2027. That’s not a coincidence. They rigged the fuse to blow after the mid….

it’s like if I responded to the fact that Hispanic kids are locked in cages with “well black kids are locked in cages too” it misses the point. It takes away the particulars of why both groups are thrown away and I lose an opportunity to learn.

so many white people are mad about me centering black children because they can’t see their selves as connected to them, that black children’s suffering isn’t enough for us to do something differently. working class is always coded as white so mentioning black kids decenters them.

Republicans have been arguing with AI bots for 24 hours about what the bill actually does. They literally can’t understand why the bill is bad and are trying to convince the AI they believe in to confirm their unsupported assumption

by Naomi Shihab Nye

I grew up in section 8 housing filled with love. went to undergrad using Pell Grants. in grad school my mama use to mail me her food stamp card. everything that made it possible for me to get a PhD has been cut. i'm sad for the the little black kids having their future stolen.

this headline tells you everything you need to know about domestic abuse in the U.S., that you can violently beat women and it not be seen as criminal.