Marissa Joseph (she/her)
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Caribbean herstorian | @mellonFdn fellow, harvard BA, formerly @thecrimson editorial board
Atlanta, GA
Joined September 2020
Excited to share my latest, “Be(Com)ing Haitiano-Cubano: Haitianas as The Undesirable (M)other in ‘Guanamaca’” published in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal pg. 59 https://t.co/xMtynAI5gJ
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The CUNY Graduate Center invites apps for 2 tenured or T-T faculty positions at the rank of Associate Professor. The primary appointment will be with the new discipline: Ph.D. & M.A. programs in Black, Race & Ethnic Studies. https://t.co/BUMfXEyHGj
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The City University of New York (CUNY)
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Loyola Marymount University’s Dept of AfAmStudies seeks a dedicated teacher-scholar with demonstrated or the potential of teaching excellence for 2025-2026. The position is for one-year and has a 3-3 course teaching load for the academic year. https://t.co/1KyZYMI4rG
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“ICE has nothing to do with Black people” meanwhile Haitians have some of the highest rates of criminalization among immigrants, they have the highest bonds, have the highest asylum denial rates & make up almost half of the families detained by ICE.
Black immigrants have continually and consistently been erased from mainstream conversations around immigration which we know is rooted in antiBlackness just as the entire system is antiBlack. In 2020, almost half of the families locked up by ICE were Haitian
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“Humanities degrees are useless” is propaganda that’s had the effect of convincing a whole generation that reading and critical thinking skills were unimportant. Now we’re reaping the results with mass illiteracy and a public eager to embrace conspiracy theories and fascism.
I freaking HATE the discourse around “useless degrees” that I’ve been seeing all day. Our society needs historians, philosophers, and English majors. Frankly, their decline is a huge reason our society lacks understanding of pol issues + the ability to scrutinize information
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The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.
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#BlackHistoryMonth Day 15. “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” —Zora Neale Hurston
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Octavia Butler was right about everything, by the way (and it wasn't hard to be, looking at how colonizers have lived and destroyed, how empire consumes) but she wrote about what it would look like so precisely and with such vision.
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I don’t want my class to prepare students for ‘the real world.’ I want my class to help students dream of a better world.
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Gonna be so annoying and keep sharing this link https://t.co/Eh9siFv5o1
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What Haitian chefs, restaurateurs, and scholars want you to know about Haitian food and history.
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Two months later and I did a thing, a thing that I am so incredibly proud of. I love being Haitian. I love our music. I love our culture. I love our history. I love our food. And I hope, if you read these words, after this, you love us a bit more too https://t.co/Eh9siFuxyt
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What Haitian chefs, restaurateurs, and scholars want you to know about Haitian food and history.
there’s been a recent uptick in anti-Haitian sentiment online with people saying that Haitians are unintelligent and violent and other gross shit. as the proud descendant of Haitian immigrants i’m NOT here for this. so here’s a thread of some of Haiti’s contributions to the world
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The people who differ on strategy from you today may not be your enemies. Because this ballot won’t save Gaza in either direction. Our coalitions could. They are worth protecting, because we have work to do tomorrow. A lot of work.
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We are working on a remembrance, but we cannot overstate the influence of #FredricJameson on Duke University Press. We have made his articles in our journals freely available through October 31. "Postmodernism" is our all-time bestselling book. https://t.co/GW3u0d70VR
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If you have siblings that aren’t academics, I highly recommend taking every academic paper you’re writing & trying to explain it to them. It really helps to distill a concept to its essence. Sadly I just did this with my sister & her response was the one word we all dread: So?
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JOB: The Bowdoin College Africana Studies Department is conducting a search for a tenure track Assistant Professor in African Studies. The job description is here: Direct link: https://t.co/TK7qxN0Zod
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I suspect some of you view voting as a statement of your personal values, instead of a way to marginally improve the conditions for your everyday organizing work that could actually change the world
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Entire life-worlds, ecologies, lineages are being annihilated in Gaza, Sudan, and Congo, while any semblance of sovereignty and self-determination is being eviscerated in Haiti. And to think, this is someone’s idea of civilization.
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A question Gallup asked in 1961, about what has been remembered as one of the most iconic and effective protest movements in American history.
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