LaShawn Harris
@madameclair08
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Bronx Raised, Historian, Author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners (UIP 2016); Tell Her Story (Forthcoming Beacon Press 2025)
Joined August 2017
@BeaconPressBks š Alert: "Tell Her Story Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" Summer 2025 #EleanorBumpurs #BXHistory #NYCHistory #1980s Preorder: https://t.co/8BBf8wVyNK
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Congrats to Associate Prof @madameclair08 on the release of Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized NYC. As a childhood neighbor of Bumpurs, Dr. Harris draws on eyewitness accounts & more to tell the story of a life (& death) that sparked a movement.
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Join us at #LangstonHughesLibrary on Thurs. Sept. 4 at 6PM, when @DominiqueJL15 and @madameclair08 will discuss LaShawn Harris's new book "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City." Get Your Free Tickets: https://t.co/BCDvtXeGKj
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āGender and femininity have never shielded Black women and girls from unfettered anti-Blackness or police violence.ā https://t.co/2JmdYU17bH
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I spent summer 2017 mustering the courage to contact Mary Bumpurs. Toward the end of that summer, I stood outside Maryās apartment, hoping she would not slam the door in my face or give me a tongueā¦
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Pub Day for #Tellherstory! Thank you @BeaconPressBks! š„³ Order: https://t.co/HJjUdDd1Ei Read an excerpt from the book. Thank you @HellGateNY!
Recent police killings of New Yorkers in mental distressālike Deborah Danner, Win Rozario, and Kawaski Trawickāecho the story of Eleanor Bumpurs, a Black grandmother shot by an NYPD officer in 1984 as she was being evicted from her NYCHA apartment. https://t.co/FXHbfRfmIh
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Get Lit! Lessons Learned From the āHurt Businessā and More Books by Black Authors This August
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Thanks to @adamgopnik for featuring @madameclair08's SEX WORKERS, PSYCHICS, AND NUMBER RUNNERS: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy in this week's @NewYorker! https://t.co/3OapW4scJi (behind paywall)
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As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime.
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Read the @PublishersWkly: https://t.co/U6WJyJHoQz Preorder with @BeaconPressBks: https://t.co/8BBf8wV0Yc
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This immersive account from historian LaShawn Harris revisits the 1984 police slaying of a disabled 66-year-old grandmother that led to massive public outcry. The result is an elegantly written and riveting view of a pivotal but little-remembered political sea change.
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My HS is staying open! š
Today, I'm proud to announce that Preston High School will stay open in the Bronx for years to come. Earlier this month, my office hosted a public hearing about the school's planned closure, and now this pillar of the community will keep educating generations of young women.
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This is tomorrow -- really looking forward to chatting with Heather Lewis about "Para Power" for the @GothamCenter at 6:30pm. Free and online, if you have time on a Thursday night!
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Join us for a conversation with author Nick Juravic about his new book Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education.
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Book Blurbs for "Tell Her Story" are in! #NYC #1980s #Blackwomen #History @BeaconPressBks
https://t.co/8BBf8wV0Yc
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The media (like the NYT) is struggling to call racism racism. This has a history. While many news orgs seriously covered parts of the Southern civil rights movement, they demonized the Northern movement & MLK's support of itāand justified N. segregation
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Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
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Thereās a myth that the media supported the civil rights movement. While many reporters courageously reported in the South, these same newspapers helped protect segregation at home & cast local activists & MLK as troublemakers when they challenged northern racism & police abuse
How newspapers struggled to cover Martin Luther King Jr. and segregation in the North:
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Great session! Thank you @SonyaBonczek @UNC_Press, @ccancellaro, and the other #editors for a great session -- "Book Marketing" & Publishing panel. #OAH2025 #publishing #writers #historians
Kicking off my opening remarks on the book market panel by practicing what I preach: self promotion! #OAH25
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.@JeanneTheoharis, @SchomburgCBFS co-founder and author of King of the North, discusses 10 things you should know about #MLK, Jr.'s work in northern states to end racism and segregation for Teen Vogue. #Kudos #SchomburgCenter #BlackHistory #CBFS
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Dr. King was arrested 29 times and assaulted by the police on many occasions.
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KING OF THE NORTH comes out today from @thenewpress! De-Southernizing Martin Luther King changes so many of the ways we have come to see him, the movement and the US during the civil rights era and provides so many lessons for what we face today. A š§µ:
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I wrote on courage in the civil rights movement and what we havenāt understood about it āand the power of accumulating actions.
Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administrationās vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and free speech. We can look to the example of US civil rights activists, who kept taking great risks even after demoralizing setbacks.
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