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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blackstudies, aggregated by home.social.

  1. So much of Black History Month gets flattened into trivia about a few iconic figures. But as Jarvis Givens reminds us on Code Switch, its origins were far more radical: a project to reclaim histories that were ignored or suppressed. A good prompt to rethink how we engage this month.
    #BlackHistoryMonth #CodeSwitch #JarvisGivens #BlackStudies

    npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-56901

  2. This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

    #BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

  3. Yesterday's GAPS #PostcolonialStudies conference ended with a most moving, artfully delivered #poetry reading by #SouthAfricanPoet & scholar Uhuru Portia Phalafala from her epic poem "Mine Mine Mine" on the intergenerational trauma of miners & their families

    #BlackStudies

  4. Another great panel at the GAPS #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"

    #BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies #LifeWriting #BlackStudies

  5. American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!

    Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!

    #BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM

  6. American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!

    Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!

    #BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM

  7. American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!

    Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!

    #BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM

  8. American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!

    Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!

    #BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM

  9. American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!

    Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!

    #BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM

  10. Something different at Book Club tonight: fresh pizza done on site!

    Tasty.
    Apparently, the group is about to evolve.

    #LiberationStruggle #BlackStudies

  11. #Job #GermanStudies
    Assistant Professor of German Studies, #DartmouthCollege, #Hanover, NH

    The Department of German Studies at #Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor, to begin on July 1, 2024. Preferred areas of expertise are #EnvironmentalHumanities, #BlackGermanStudies, or both.
    @envhist @envhum @histodons @blackmastodon
    #envhist #envhum #BlackStudies #histodons
    apply.interfolio.com/131927

  12. The Guardian has published the most recent letter against the censorship of intersectionality and Black feminism in the AP African American Studies course by College Board. Please distribute and sign on!

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

  13. "[T]he worst thing that happened to Black history during #BlackHistoryMonth was not Ron DeSantis banning critical concepts and approaches—it was the College Board revising its new #AfricanAmericanStudies curriculum to meet all of his demands. But now scholars in #BlackHistory, #BlackStudies and related fields are fighting back. #KimberléCrenshaw will explain. She founded the #AfricanAmericanPolicyForum."

    #CRT #wokebashing #ChasseAuxWokes

    #StartMakingSense

    redcircle.com/shows/f42ee235-8

  14. Hey folks. Please have a look at this new letter to College Board by African American Studies scholars from across the country. It's a clear statement against the censored African American Studies AP course with a list of actionable demands.

    actionnetwork.org/petitions/a-

    #academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

  15. Hey friends. Please read this open letter that I signed onto. It's a collective statement by college and university faculty from across the US who teach African American Studies in defense of the Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course that was blocked/censored in Florida.

    #academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

    medium.com/@afamprofshighered/

  16. I'm excited to announce the #cfp for On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality, a one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the University of Brighton on Wed 5 April 2023, featuring a keynote by Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE). Details in this thread! #symposium #conference #relationality #sociality #philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy #CriticalTheory #QueerTheory #decolonial #BlackStudies #Sociology #RadicalPolitics #LeticiaSabsay #sabsay #UniversityOfBrighton #CAPPE @philosophy @decolonial

  17. Posting this as a way to find scholars of queer theory, cinema, literature, race, and humanities. I see the lists but have not had time to figure everything out yet. If this sort of thing interests you, pls follow or like, or whatever you’re inclined to do, and i will follow you :). Thanks! #queertheory #blackstudies #Cavell #cinema #filmtheory #politicaltheory #feministtheory