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The reason that U of Mississippi gives for cancelling Garrett Felber's grant (before they fired him) is, essentially, that he didn't allow them to intervene in the proposal before he applied for the grant. I'd like to know if other faculty's proposals received such interference.
Chief Marketing & Comms Officer: "If he'd followed UM’s process of engaging with external funders, his dept chair would have had the opportunity to advise him on how best to align his proposal with the dept’s research, teaching & service as articulated in its mission statement."
Couple this requirement with the fact that the department chair cancelled the grant after Felber received it: that is a violation of academic freedom.
Ok @JoeNBC, let's talk college free speech & #CancelCulture, a thread:
1. @OleMiss fired Garrett Felber, a celebrated anti-racism history scholar who spoke up on UM leaders' relationships with 'powerful, racist donors' & ties to mass incarceration.
Read: mississippifreepress.org/7518/um-fires-…
1. @OleMiss fired Garrett Felber, a celebrated anti-racism history scholar who spoke up on UM leaders' relationships with 'powerful, racist donors' & ties to mass incarceration.
Read: mississippifreepress.org/7518/um-fires-…
Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):
2. @OleMiss is trying to compel its ombudsman to turn over confidential communications in order to unmask the #UMemails whistleblowers who exposed a web of racism among UM officials and donors.
mississippifreepress.org/7379/our-last-…
2. @OleMiss is trying to compel its ombudsman to turn over confidential communications in order to unmask the #UMemails whistleblowers who exposed a web of racism among UM officials and donors.
mississippifreepress.org/7379/our-last-…
Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):
3. Faculty fear it's an effort to fire the ombudsman.
"People would be terrified of speaking up because people who speak up get hammered at this university. There is no place to go except the Ombuds office." mississippifreepress.org/7379/our-last-…
3. Faculty fear it's an effort to fire the ombudsman.
"People would be terrified of speaking up because people who speak up get hammered at this university. There is no place to go except the Ombuds office." mississippifreepress.org/7379/our-last-…
This attempt to silence a professor (and one of my advisors!) for calling out racism and holding people accountable for injustice is appalling. It resembles the asymmetrical and scorched earth tactics of the GOP. It’s an abuse of power, self-aggrandizing, and wrong.
The great reporting by the @MSFreePress lays it all out. Dr. Thomas participated in the #ScholarStrike to raise awareness about racial injustice. The state auditor said the action ran afoul of an anti-labor law where any teacher who strikes can be fired. mississippifreepress.org/5913/auditor-s…
That law was passed after Mississippi teachers in 1985 went on strike for higher pay. They were successful, but the powers-that-be said “never again.” I mean...if we pay teachers their due, what’s next? Socialism?! The demise of the Republic itself?!? 😱
This has been so infuriating to watch. #Journalism faculty at last institution, @OleMissRebels, tried to out sources of an investigative piece about their department’s lack of transparency around racist remarks from donors.
Those remarks were made to my former Dean and some posted online, saying the town square replicated an African jungle. One major donor posted to his FB wall and was called out (had name removed from building).
Private email exchanges between racist donors and former Dean remained silent until a public records request made them visible to all.
Yesterday, Salt Lake City police shot an unarmed 13-year-old autistic boy & the Rochester chief of police stepped down amid protests over the murder of #DanielPrude, another neurodivergent Black man in crisis.
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This is why we need to say #BlackDisabledLivesMatter & #BlackAutisticLivesMatter. This is why we need to make sure that disability is a part of conversations about police brutality, because it's a part of the story at least 33-50% of the time. (See rudermanfoundation.org/white_papers/m…). 2/
This is why I focused on the cases of #NeliLatson & #MatthewRushin for my first contribution to #ScholarStrike.
Because their stories are not unique.
#FreeNeli #FreeMatthewRushin #RushinToBringMatthewHome 3/
Because their stories are not unique.
#FreeNeli #FreeMatthewRushin #RushinToBringMatthewHome 3/
1/ This Twitter #TeachIn is comprised three thread-chapters. This thread is #3 "Fixing Up My House." The others are: #1 "Getting level set,” and #2 “Love." #ScholarStrike
2/ .@HarrietLerner suggests trying to get someone else to change is like trying to become friends with a squirrel by chasing it. If you want to see a change in others you have to start to change yourself. #ScholarStrike
3/ Here are some places I’ve been and I’m going on my journey to fight anti-Black racism. #ScholarStrike
1/ This Twitter #TeachIn is comprised of three thread-chapters. This is thread #2, entitled “Love." The others are: #1 "Getting level set,” and #3 "Fixing Up My House.” #ScholarStrike
2/ Being active in the work of racial justice and anti-black racism weighs on people differently. #ScholarStrike
3/ My experiences, and what I draw on for strength to do this work is mine, and I can only invite you to join me — the way in which you join me will be your own journey with your own past guiding you. #ScholarStrike
1/ This Twitter #TeachIn is comprised of three thread-chapters. This thread is #1, "Getting Level Set." The other two are "Love," and "Fixing Up My House." #ScholarStrike
2/ Inspired by @keepingit101 I'll start with a statement of intention. I’m participating in response to a call by @AntheaButler for scholars to strike against racism huge thanks to her and @TheTattooedProf for getting us organized. #ScholarStrike
3/ First things first. Who am I and why this work? I’m a white man who has been on a journey of well-intentioned allyship but with an unhealthy dose of naïveté and cultural blinders #ScholarStrike
Looks like I’m up next for #PAScholarStrike! I’ve been tapped to talk about the imperative for organizations to conduct “social justice audits.” #ScholarStrike
In particular, I’m going to be talking about the need to identify the white supremacist roots of our organizations (I’m looking at you academia) and transform how power operates within them—and that traditional approaches to self-study are inadequate and even harmful.
While I’m focusing today on white supremacy, it’s necessary to remember that systems of oppression intersect and therefore any thorough social justice audit needs to consider all forms of oppression within an organization. Approaches to inclusivity need to as well.
.@UNC likely would not have survived after the Civil War, and @NCSU may never have existed at all, had the Univ. not profited from the sale of 270,000 acres of expropriated Indigenous land. 
This thread builds on the groundbreaking work of Native scholars, esp. “Land-Grab University.” In solidarity with #ScholarStrike we uplift their work, as a reminder that U.S. universities must reckon with their past and present role in the settler state. landgrabu.org
Original thread from @Tahtone with more on the "Land-Grab Universities" investigations.
We stand in solidarity w/ the #ScholarStrike. Join us @ 4pm ET on Facebook as we live stream Ep10 of our Under the Blacklight series & discuss anti-Black police violence & its gendered dimensions, followed by an Instagram teach-in on BLM, media reports on looting, & 4th Amendment
Next up: a teach in on the Holtzclaw case and the vulnerability of Black women to sexual violence by law enforcement. Join us at 7pm/4pm #ScholarStrike
In solidarity w/ the nationwide #scholarstrike & #scholarstrikecanada, we’re hosting two teach-ins today on anti-Black police violence & its gendered dimensions. Follow us on FB to tune into the live screenings! Our team will host post-show discussions on IG live! Stay tuned!
Join us on facebook at facebook.com/TheAfricanAmer…
Join us on instagram at instagram.com/aapolicyforum?…
In honor of today and tomorrow's #ScholarStrike founded by Dr. Anthea Butler @AntheaButler & co-created by Dr. Kevin Gannon @TheTattooedProf
I am connecting this with everyone who participated in #ShutDownSTEM , #ShutDownAcademia & #Strike4BlackLives 3 months ago!
Let's go🚀1/
I am connecting this with everyone who participated in #ShutDownSTEM , #ShutDownAcademia & #Strike4BlackLives 3 months ago!
Let's go🚀1/
When you joined into #ShutDownSTEM & #ShutDownAcademia it is because you were on a #Strike4BlackLives
This is because you were making a commitment to eradicate systemic racism.
This is because you understood you have a role to play.
We need to end this.
Together.
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This is because you were making a commitment to eradicate systemic racism.
This is because you understood you have a role to play.
We need to end this.
Together.
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You understood deep down that there is no reason why anyone based on their skin color should undergo this treatment. Losing their lives, loved ones, being profiled by police, subjugated to painful treatment.
You understand deep down that #BlackLivesMatter
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You understand deep down that #BlackLivesMatter
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For #ScholarStrike, a short starter list to get you going on #decolonizing your syllabus for the US history classroom (please add!) #twitterstorians
Think about what periodization really means. Are you upholding notions of American exceptionalism by making that whole unit about the American Revolution or the Civil War? Do linear concepts of time uphold European epistemologies that devalue non-European people & cultures?
Why "Early America"? How "early" are you really getting? How much time do you spend on the 30000+ years of history on this continent before you get to the little blip called European colonization?
For #literacy educators, teacher educators & researchers participating in #ScholarStrike some curated resources from the #MarginalSyllabus project including blog posts, author webinars & annotated articles about the lives and #literacies of Black learners and educators. Thread >
In “The Stories They Tell: Mainstream Media, Pedagogies of Healing and Critical Media Literacy" @aprilbakerbell @RavenForevamore @SakeenaEverett describe how Black youth use social media as counterspaces for critical literacy educatorinnovator.org/writing-our-ci… #ScholarStrike #CiteBlackWomen
In “What’s Radical about Youth Writing?: Seeing and Honoring Youth Writers & Their Literacies” @MarcelleHaddix describes her work with young writers leveraging their stories & voices to advance critical cultural conversations educatorinnovator.org/learn-with-mar… #ScholarStrike #CiteBlackWomen
Today for the #ScholarStrike I'm going to do a 🧵on the history of policing in the U.S. We can't understand how we got to where we are with policing today without going back to this history.
First, policing is not and has never been about public safety or fighting "crime." The history of policing Is one of colonization, racial domination, xenophobia, and labor control. Police are enforcers of a particular vision of citizenship and nation. #ScholarStrike
Police are less concerned with eliminating crime and violence and more concerned with enforcing social hierarchies and enabling the smooth functioning of both the state and capital. #ScholarStrike
In 5th grade, my son asked me “Mama, is there something wrong with me?” My heart broke, but I kept calm to say no and ask why. White woman teacher in his favorite class (math) wouldn’t stop calling his name. Always on him. He’d be doing same as others but she’d call him out. 1/11
My 10yo son was the only Black child in the small country school (central PA). He loved math class and was devastated to never be able to do right by his teacher. My baby wanted to know what was so wrong with him that she couldn’t stop shouting his name and singling him out. 2/11
If you can imagine what this woman put my son through for a child to think “something’s wrong with me” cuz she treated him so different from others. I hid my rage, calmly told him nothing was wrong with him, the problem was his teacher putting such negative attention on him. 3/11
In honor of #ScholarStrike, I’m going to share some resources I know about math and policing. People use math to build policing that disproportionately harms people of color. And people use math to try to dismantle it.
This reporting by @propublica about recidivism algorithms is excellent. High schoolers could read it. It highlights the math in a rigorous way while also being very human. propublica.org/article/machin…
Here are papers that show the mathematical impossibility of a fair recidivism algorithm. They focus on the human cost of baked-in unfairness, especially for people of color. Almost fair is not nearly good enough.
arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807
papers.nips.cc/paper/7151-on-…
arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807
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so I think I'm going to cheat a little bit
bc I'd planned to start from e101 and just tweet you through the anti-racist resources we've tried to provide
BUT our work on e203 & 204 are probably the most relevant to today's action
so...
#ScholarStrike
bc I'd planned to start from e101 and just tweet you through the anti-racist resources we've tried to provide
BUT our work on e203 & 204 are probably the most relevant to today's action
so...
#ScholarStrike
I'm instead going to start with the race & religion timeline we lay out in e203
in part bc it's possible to get a whole PhD in American religions and still miss a lot of this history unless you explicitly go looking for it
#ScholarStrike
in part bc it's possible to get a whole PhD in American religions and still miss a lot of this history unless you explicitly go looking for it
#ScholarStrike
(hint: one of us did. you'll never guess which one.)
Sept 8-9, I’ll be participating in the #ScholarStrike. Here’s a thread of articles that touch on race, racialization, and/or blackness outside of the U.S., primarily in the MENA region
This article by Al-Monitor gives a brief history of the African diaspora in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.
Afro-Turks join global outcry over George Floyd killing almon.co/3dby via @AlMonitor
Afro-Turks join global outcry over George Floyd killing almon.co/3dby via @AlMonitor
Sulaiman Addonia, In Search of Beauty: Blackness as a Poem in Saudi Arabia: granta.com/in-search-of-b…
In solidarity with #ScholarStrike, I'm dedicating tomorrow's Buddhism class to @PAyoY10's provocative rereading of the story of Siddhartha Gautama's enlightenment and her proposed expansion of the Four Noble Truths in light of #BlackLivesMatter: lionsroar.com/buddhism-age-b…
@PAyoY10's update pairs organically with our study of accounts of the Buddha's enlightenment in the sutras, and it links mobilizing for racial justice to understandings of the Dharma. A meaningful link between reading sutra translations and engagement with social justice.
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As contingent faculty and an employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I don't have the power to strike (or even to refuse necessary tasks, like email). My teaching this semester is also mostly asynchronous. So for my World Religions class I added #ScholarStrike module. 1/?
To back up: I attempted to design the class from the ground up with anti-racist principles in mind. The first two weeks have focused on the forging of "religion" as a category of analysis in the context of colonial domination, w/ assists from Masuzawa, Smith, @KeepingIt_101 2/?
I also, for the first time, adopted principles of UDL, presenting multiple ways for students to complete weekly assignments and discussions. I set deadlines for the sake of lending structure, but explicitly told my students that everything is flexible. #EndCarcerealPedagogy 3/?
Tomorrow many of us @UMich will join #scholarstrike. It is a refusal to conduct business as usual at a time when racial injustice destroys so many lives.
There's a long tradition of student-led activism in Kenya & Uganda. Here students at @uonbi protest the Kenyatta gov't's 1/3
There's a long tradition of student-led activism in Kenya & Uganda. Here students at @uonbi protest the Kenyatta gov't's 1/3
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refusal to allow Oginga Odinga to speak on campus.
Below: 4,000 students @uonbi vote to strike, Aug. 1974. Their protest is over crowded classrooms, inadequate food, and over-priced books.
refusal to allow Oginga Odinga to speak on campus.
Below: 4,000 students @uonbi vote to strike, Aug. 1974. Their protest is over crowded classrooms, inadequate food, and over-priced books.
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Last example: Students protest against the murder of politician J.M. Kariuki, March 1975. Kariuki--the most popular politician in Kenya--was thought to have been killed with Pres. Kenyatta's knowledge.
Last example: Students protest against the murder of politician J.M. Kariuki, March 1975. Kariuki--the most popular politician in Kenya--was thought to have been killed with Pres. Kenyatta's knowledge.
A #ScholarStrike thread in anticipation of tomorrow and Wednesday's action. #ScholarStrike is, first and foremost a disruption of the everyday routine in academe, an action by folx in higher ed who refuse to abide the racial injustice destroying our society. (1/x)
2. #ScholarStrike is in support of #BlackLivesMatter and in solidarity with athletes in the WNBA, NBA, and MLB who struck last week. @AntheaButler lit the fuse on here, and now we're ready for this week's action. I'm honored to be her co-conspirator and spreadsheet dude.
3. We know academic professionals are in a variety of roles and positions, many of them precarious and contingent. Above all, #ScholarStrike is about taking the actions you can take wherever you are. Solidarity doesn't look like just one thing.
