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A little bird told me
#WickedFlesh
in paperback is available for pre-order. 📚🌊 Buy wherever books are sold, but buy Black, buy indie if you're able. 🙇🏾🍯
The blurbs are up for
#WickedFlesh
. Grateful to these brilliant scholars for reading. 😭🙇🏾♀️
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Someone on here said, these protestors don't just want freedom. They want the access to other people's labor; services and pleasures they think they are entitled to. Mastery at any cost.
This woman’s sign perfectly encapsulates this fucking “freedom” movement. What are a few million deaths when Karen needs a haircut?
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It is wild to be a historian and see the "crime wave" strategy getting used again.
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Y'all taking the high road but the low road is much more fun and historically accurate.
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In case you wondered, microaggressions be like: being a keynote at a conference, bio in program, introduced with all your credentials, discussing your work in the keynote...but still getting asked by an elder white man how your doctoral program is going. I. Am. A. Professor.
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A historic gathering of Black women historians is happening right now. I wonder about the ways it is not being covered anywhere except on Twitter/IG. No white academic spaces seem to be paying attention.
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Being the first Black woman hired by the oldest history department in the country. I was hired in 2016.
#BlackintheIvory
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"So much of the work of oppression is about policing the imagination." Saidiya Hartman
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Many things can be true at once. It can be true that Viola Davis is a stunning goddess of divine inspiration and we should be lucky to walk the planet alongside her. This is obviously true.
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I don't know how "breeding" slaves became a myth. Every WPA interview I've read so far (from a woman) has mentioned it. Owners were very much attempting to manage reproduction of their labor force this way.
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Stop using "man of his time" as a defense as though enslaved people didn't live in the same time period. Stop putting white male thought on a pedestal over Black thought that is critiquing white supremacy IN THE SAME MOMENT.
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This "responsibility" discourse is 🚩 Debt is structural, not individual. There is no "fair" debt in a world of billionaires, in an afterlife of slavery.
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"Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?"
I think about this question once a day at least.
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Really been resisting saying this but...stop it. Stop appropriating Black women's freedom practices. Black women didn't vote to save the DNC. They voted as a tool, as harm reduction, for a candidate they wanted, or against a candidate they didn't. For all kinds of reasons.
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Watch the South. Watch the Black South. Defend Black southerners. Watch the South.
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Sending love to Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles. Sending love to this generation of little sisters/primas who are teaching us latchkey kid, they sleep/we grind aunties to stop, breathe, take stock, and speak up. Y'all are telling us it is all too much. You are right. I'm listening.
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Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire works from women next year: ‘You have to do something radical’
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"I WANTED it and I assumed I could have it." Octavia Butler on pursuing a career as a science fiction writer.
*faints in praise*
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Rape. The word is rape. The data corroborates what enslaved women said over and over out loud in their time. And were called liars for it. Then and now.
#WickedFlesh
“In the United States, European men contributed three times more to the modern-day gene pool of people of African descent than European women did. In the British Caribbean, they contributed 25 times more.”
This country, my God.
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Associate Professor with tenure in the History Dept at Johns Hopkins University starting July 1.
So many have poured into me in this process (and I mean every and anywhere). Thank you, thank you, and thank you. I'll be pouring it back out and paying it forward always 🕯🕯🕯
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Professor and a Soror. Rest well. - Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, dies at 103 - Los Angeles Times
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Hundreds of Native American Treaties Digitized for the First Time | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
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I want to talk about late capitalism pressure to produce children (the inhumanity that is ascribed to women across the board who don’t) but refusal to provide resources for them, the underinvestment in schools and teachers & the overinvestment in bringing them back in person...
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It can also be true that Dario Calmese has an incredible gift. It can also be true that Vanity Fair doesn't get a gold star for making this their first cover by a Black photographer.
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My take: We just saw, in real time, the clashing of kinships within academia. The kinship of an old guard protectorate elite (and all of the violent wagon circling that necessitates) just crashed against a critical mass of academics who have rooted their kinships beyond the tower
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Looking back at an old syllabus and realizing there are first year undergraduates who might have no living memory of Mike Brown's murder or the Ferguson protests, much less Trayvon, Troy Davis, Jena 6, Hurricane Katrina.... 👀
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Female Slaveholders Were Once Viewed as an Anomaly. But New Research Reveals They Were Numerous, Greedy, and Brutal.
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When I teach in the fall, I teach Katrina on the first day. I've found a way to do it every time since 2009. You'd think it'd be difficult to make it relate. It isn't. The scale of the impact weaves through any course topic you can imagine. 15 years this week.
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Still a pandemic. Still a crisis. Refuse to make this feel normal. Refuse blame unless you're looking at the state. Refuse to internalize not doing enough/right/well as your failure and not the failure of the federal government. Especially on Labor Day.
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Footnotes are where the party is at. Give me reams of footnotes. Paragraph-long footnotes. Pages of footnotes. I want them all. Spill the whole back story and weave a back channel on the page. One more footnote! And one more again!
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It can also be true that some images are too devastating to be recreated and reclaimed. Is that what is being worked out here? I don't know. I don't think so, but I don't know.
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Learning history will radicalize you. In one direction or another.
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Because it can ALSO be true that the visual archive of slavery is deeper and denser than Gordon's back and/yet maybe we come back to him and to his tree (h/t T.M.) because we don't know how to walk deeper into that archive.
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"There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns." Octavia E. Butler
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We are still in a pandemic. We are still in crisis. We are still just doing the best we can. We are not ok.
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The first ABWH since 2018. The inaugural Living Legends Luncheon. A fire keynote coming up. A registration that sold out in just days.
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"Between 1910 and 1997, African-Americans lost about ninety per cent of their farmland."
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Verzuz is such a blessing. Black culture is such a blessing.
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This is a gaslight.
Black Latinx and Caribbean folks are not asking for too much when we ask that a movie about the culture of mostly phenotypically Black people set in a neighborhood of phenotypically Black people cast mostly phenotypically Black people.
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I'm not against the cover. I'm frustrated by a historical shorthand (in this case visual vocabulary) that asks Black women to be and hold centuries of violence, but never delves deeply into the way that violence is personal, physical, and metaphysically enacted on our own selves.
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I can't promise that if the pandemic happened when I was in college that I'd have had the self discipline to social distance, mask, etc. Especially after a shortened spring semester and months at home away from friends? I don't judge these students. I judge our government.
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Chills. Sharing the
#WickedFlesh
cover, front and back. Artist: Delita Martin. Current discount code: 40% off with SHEAR40-FM through 8/19 if you purchase here:
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The COPS are protesting US. A police riot with state resources at its back.
These cops are protesting us just as much as we are protesting them. They are telling us they won’t have their power to abuse taken away.
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We need a better word than capitalism. Better even than racial capitalism. It isn't doing enough. It doesn't smell like death. It doesn't sound like being hoodwinked by your own struggle. It doesn't feel like species wide disaster. Ecological crisis. The flood.
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I keep typing and retyping a response, but honestly I'm speechless. This is all I have 😭:
Gratitude. Giving thanks to the past and present, the living and the dead. To the women in and of the water. And to Black women. And to the diaspora that became New Orleans. Thank you.
Congratulations to
@ABWHTruth
member,
@jmjafrx
, for winning the
@AHAhistorians
' 2021 Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history for Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (
@PennPress
, 2020)!!!
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Todays inspiration is the always and forever Octavia E. Butler. From her archives at
@TheHuntington
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#WickedFlesh
has a cover. Art by Delita Martin. So grateful for the witchcraft that led to meeting her at the
@mdffparkway
in
#Baltimore
(thank you
@jesssolomon
), for the power of her art, and that she allowed me to use this image on the cover. I'm beyond humbled. 🙇🏾♀️
@PennPress
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Whew. These optics.
Almost like American Samoa is a colony or something
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Rest, rest to scholar Valerie Boyd and condolences to those who knew her well. We give thanks for Black women who walk in the sacred tradition of remembering and honoring other Black women.
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Enslaved and free Black people had plenty to say about the times they lived in and they said it to white people's faces so there is no excuse for being a "man of his time." We can recognize that people lived in their historical moments and not make it an excuse for behavior.
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So much grief on my TL. Defend Black womanhood. Defend Black girlhood.
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AHH!!!!! What a way to start 2021. Honored!!! Thank you readers! 💜🖤💜📚📚📚 Congratulations to everyone here!!!!
Congratulations to Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by
@jmjafrx
for best non-fiction book in the inaugural Caribbean Readers' Awards
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L I F T E D
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The red in that time lapse data viz of the slave trade in Br*tes is doing the work
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I don't have words yet. But I do have the book. Grateful. So grateful. And Delita Martin of
@blackboxpress
(on IG) - your art is holy. Thank you.
#WickedFlesh
@PennPress
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But it is one of the many grating moments where, per microaggressions, you know it looks like no big deal on the outside but feels like a huge deal on the inside and hey, didn't we have a
#ThisIsWhatAProfessorLooksLike
hashtag for a reason?
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I'm also frustrated that Gordon had to be referent for Blackness here instead of what I thought this was before I knew the inspiration: A recreation of an iconic old Hollywood pose that, of course, Davis pulls off with might and ease. Did we need "Gordon" here for this? Idk. /fin
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I didn't watch
#SurvivingRKelly
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#MuteRKelly
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"We, as descendants of enslaved African people, stand here today in solidarity, in determination, and in righteous outrage at the unwarranted and heavy-handed actions of the federal government."
Black Mississippians Response Statement to the ICE Raids
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History matters. Archives and sources and the testimony of those enslaved by them, from them matters.
More of us need to do this work, period. Not just the 1776ers. We should be able to tell their stories as easily as breathing. Beyond Douglass. Beyond Tubman. Beyond the U.S.
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Congratulations to Terrence Blanchard - 136 Years, The Met will Finally Host an Opera by a Black Composer
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And it can ALSO be true that if we superimpose Gordon's back on the visual archive of slavery, all we see is a 19th century moment, a U.S. empire, a commodified and caricatured man made into artifact, a dispossessed mode of Blackness that is/also gendered (masc)--
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New Orleans brass band performs 'I'll Fly Away' for those who can't bury their loved ones during COVID-19 outbreak |
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Black Womanhood, Spring 2017, taught by me and Martha S. Jones. The syllabus is live:
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"The only good poem I've written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another." Libertie
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But most of all we did it for OUR households, kin, and communities. We didn't do it FOR you. We aren't your magical saviors. Stop putting that on Black people. Stop making spectral presence of us when we live here too and we are FREE. Been free.
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Archivists, gather ye people. If you're on here now or in a year or in five years creating databases, projects, assignments, and whatever else about 2020 and you are NOT moving with an ethic of care, privacy, and justice you are risking people's lives. You are complicit.
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2) asking Davis to carry his weight and hers as the Black femme presenting body, our
#WickedFlesh
, is asked to do all the time, in every time and place.
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And yes, I am actually Puerto Rican as well as African American. And my Puerto Rican is actually Black as in BLACK. Come see about me.
Let's try to focus on the Black women doing the real work out here and check out
@jmjafrx
on Insta later today.
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Slavery. Most things go back to slavery. Most questions can be answered with "because slavery." Most answers can come from studying enslaved people and how they resisted, survived, and lived.
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As much as the holiday in this moment makes me very uncomfortable, much respect to Opal Lee and the organizers who made this their work for decades. I will not let Congress and its treacherous timing diminish that labor of love. You deserve your flowers.
For decades, Opal Lee, 94, fought for the U.S. to recognize June 19 as a federal holiday. Meet the Grandmother of Juneteenth.
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Help CBC, the only Black owned bookstore in New Orleans, get stabilized. Support if you can, share if you can't. Break-in and robbery at Community Book Center
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Someone on here tweeted, years ago, something along the lines of: Do you want to be known for your writing/work or do you want to be known for sending emails back fast and on time?
Still lives rent free on a ticker in my head.
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Just a reminder that the academy isn't "easier" if you're Black, a Black woman, a Black Latinx woman, or whatever non-white category you want to imagine. Creating a Black identity doesn't magically slide you up the ranks of one the whitest academic fields of history.
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"It was not so much the rage of the poor white Southerner but the greed of the rich white planter that drove the lash. The violence was neither arbitrary nor gratuitous. It was rational, capitalistic, all part of the plantation’s design."
#1619Project
!!!
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Popping in briefly to join this chorus:
The country isn't divided. White people are divided. And white people need to get their white kin together.
Period. No replies permitted.
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When I pointed out maybe we should pivot to focus on where we were growing and invest in a) courses on Black and non-European topics and b) hire more Black and POC faculty, the committee looked shocked and confused. They hadn't even noticed the uptick in that category.
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My heart is with NO especially the Katrina generation (in New Orleans and beyond) who are experiencing Ida on this day. It is too much. Sending love, comfort and prayers to you all.
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Enough with these projects and websites about slavery that have no faces, no authors, no attribution, and no accountability. No descended engagement. No Black staff. No Black leads. No Black praxis. Just DH and vibes.
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Learned recently that Fred Hampton's tombstone is shot up every year on the day of his murder by police. So about these monuments and erasing history and respecting history and the dead....
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Be grateful today if you want, if it is the least you can do. Spray us with thank yous. But be prepared to be pissed tomorrow because we aren't done and we will keep coming for our things. Your gratitude is cute. Power is cuter.
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Mia Mingus is a gift. I am sitting deeply with this: You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence | Leaving Evidence
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No. Disagree. And centering white feelings (guilt) is not the move in this moment. But to be clear, white guilt has an exit route. White people who have protested all summer for Black lives have taken that route. Blackface/Blackfishing is peak centering white privilege
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who isn't speaking back, who isn't even looking at us, is looking past some old wound (because his were "healed" keloids of terror which means they weren't the first or the last but also timeless because who can account for the damage and who is there to account for it)
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My essay "Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads" is out now, in
Volume 36 Issue 4 (137) | Social Text!!! | Duke University Press
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I am collecting digital resources to share with my students on the non-Angolophone Caribbean. Sharing a few faves here. Add on at the end of this thread of things I'm missing or missed. 1/
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Waking up to this news!!! Thank you! Wow!!! Honored!!!!! 🤯😍
Congratulations to
@jmjafrx
! her beautiful Wicked Flesh by
@PennPress
is one of the 5 finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History! Let the prizes begin!
#slaveryarchive
@womnknowhistory
#twitterstorians
#WomensHistoryMonth
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and if that is the mode of Blackness we are faced with, if that is the history we are asked to confront in recreating the image, it can also be true two missteps may have bn made: 1) asking Gordon to carry the weight of an entire story *just as he was asked to do at the time* &
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