Humanist/History/Religion/Associate Dean @GrinnellCollege | Author, Fear in Our Hearts @nyupress | Editor, https://xitter.gq/t.co/sf0z2KZFw0
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Proud of Fear In Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America. It's for a broad audience (esp. undergrads) & acknowledges readers of different backgrounds & experiences. See thread for outline of the book. Please reach out for a course or community virtual visit!
ALT Photo of book cover featuring "Home Sweet Home" by Azzah Sultan.
Thanks to @salon for open space to consider how our relationship to history affects other people's lives.
"Without teaching critical perspectives about history in the U.S., it will be too easy for well-meaning future white voters to believe that restrictive voting measures are, in fact, about 'election integrity.'" salon.com/2023/08/06/the-pas…
Inspired by @esglaude and the @LegacyMuseum, I’ve been working on a piece about how racialized “habits of history” protect white innocence & affect voting & education in the US. The good thing? We can change our habits when we see how they hurt others! bit.ly/3Oh4P64
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.@elfenchi: "We tend to think that history is just in the past, rather than seeing how history continues to live in the present, especially for Black communities." salon.com/2023/08/06/the-pas… #UnitedStates
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Bayard Rustin was a queer Black activist of racial justice, women's equality and LGBTQ rights, and a crucial member of the Civil Rights Movement as the chief organizer of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington.
We proudly honor him and his legacy during #PrideMonth.
ALT Bayard Rustin alongside a photo that says "integration means better schools for all"
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"It's a culture of inequality... and what DeSantis is doing, is cultivating a kind of willful ignorance that will allow for this to continue, so it's not an abstract question for me, it's a question of life and death" - @esglaude w/ @NicolleDWallace
Love this take from @NifMuhammad. @Giannis_An34 offers a master class in patience/compassion with others and with himself in a tough situation.
Appreciate thoughts here about the importance of process over “deliverables.” Don’t have to be into sports to see the wisdom in what @NifMuhammad is saying via @Dame_Lillard.
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"The performers in drag shows, by contrast, are LGBTQ people and the performances challenge such hierarchies. That, not their content, is what has prompted conservatives to try to restrict them," writes @RachelCleves. washingtonpost.com/made-by-h…
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America wants you to believe that all of these people just magically disappeared
Can’t wait to get to work as the next Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion @GrinnellCollege. What an honor it will be to work with and learn from our Dean @BerondaM and to support Grinnell’s great community of educator scholars!
Academic peeps: American studies two-year position at Grinnell College. Good place to land for a spell—good research support and very good students. apply.interfolio.com/120810
The Rev Dr MLK knew what was at stake when white Americans ignore, or are ignorant of, how history lives in the present. Change requires historical knowledge of the present—seeing how, as James Baldwin argued, history conditions us, often unconsciously. nytimes.com/2023/01/15/opini…
A thoughtful piece from @krw18 and @EdwardECurtisIV on the intersection of race (specifically Blackness) and religion in the Hamline University Islamic art controversy. religionnews.com/2023/01/12/…
Good reporting from COP Egypt, discussing relationship between human rights and climate justice. interc.pt/3gHca23
I so appreciate the humility behind @dwaynebetts words. What a beautiful dude. Here he is doing much good in people’s lives. Was an honor to see him @GrinnellCollege back in the day thanks to @DeanBakopoulos. nytimes.com/2022/11/25/opini…
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This week we put out the final episode of Crash Course Black American History. We worked on this series for over 3 years and put out 51 episodes spanning the transatlantic slave trade to the Black Lives Matter movement. I’m so proud of what we made.
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