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Sociologist • Assistant Prof @BUsociologydept • PhD @Duke_Sociology • Researching Latinx (anti)Blackness • 🇩🇴📖📚☕️💫

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for a girl who loves sleep and hates stress, i really picked a questionable career path
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@BlockClubCHI
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South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." https://t.co/nlVXeUqnLv
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Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Excerpts from an Interview by Sociologist Christian Parenti (Cuba, 1997) Parenti: How did you arrive in Cuba? Assata Shakur: Well, I couldn’t, you know, just write a letter and say, “Dear Fidel, I’d like to come to your country.” So I had to
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78. https://t.co/1gBMFYq5QR
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Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The Trump administration has reportedly ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including the historic photograph “The Scourged Back” https://t.co/QKznyrBMGe
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@BlackCatrachoBK
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Please check up on your Latine peoples, especially your Black & Indigenous Latine peoples our deportations are quite different. Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling will have devastating effects for now and generations to come.
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.
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A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
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Joseph McNeil, one of the "Greensboro Four" who helped spark civil rights sit-in protests across the South, has died. He was 83 https://t.co/BcnogwsrQu
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Later a general in the air force reserves, McNeil was one of four students who sat at a North Carolina Woolworth’s
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz
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Kicking off year 2 on the tenure track.
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Made the trek north to talk to incoming first-gen first years about what it’s like to navigate college and be a Polar Bear. It was great to be back on campus @BowdoinCollege.
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📣 our new article “Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization” w/ @stephdhuman & Nicholas Vargas in @AnnualReviews is officially out & its FREE! 📖 get ur copy 👉🏽
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In this review, we advocate for deeper exploration of Latino racialization by highlighting three core complexities: complexities of racial categorization, state-based racialization, and within-group...
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#ASA2025 in the books. ✅
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@ravynlenae
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plantains really the best thing in the world
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@ERSjournal
Ethnic and Racial Studies
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#ERSNew 🐣🔓 During #BlackLivesMatter 2020, Dominicans used social media to engage in transnational discourses about Dominican Blackness and anti-Blackness. Article @Pzabalaortiz : https://t.co/mRNBF1QYQG
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz
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Grad school
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what is it called when you lock in & crash out at the same time
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Honored to be a 2025 recipient of the Andrés Torres Paper Series Award from The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy. https://t.co/NOwVZOYKlS
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz
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Coming soon!
@ERSjournal
Ethnic and Racial Studies
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#PeroNoSomosRacistas: Examining #Dominican (Anti)Blackness in a Time of Global Racial Reckoning Author: Pamela Zabala Ortiz @Pzabalaortiz Boston University Coming soon! #Antiracism #antiBlackness #BlackLivesMatter #SocialMedia #LatinAmerica
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