Assoc. Prof, @UCIrivine Political Science | @UMich PhD | He Him | My book, The Anger Gap: https://t.co/x0Cd1vxiAi?amp=1 | Race, culture, dog pix, punching up
May 16 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Feel free to call student occupation of a building disruptive, aggravating, etc. But for UCI leadership to label it as *violent* is insidious for a number of reasons (1/6)
It manufactures a pretense for police to descend upon your own campus community, and codes their actions as the *response* to violence rather than the *instigator* of violence. (2/6)
Mar 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Got to share a couple brief thoughts on this NYT piece on de Blasio's comments on Black voters. Wanted to expound here on what’s highlighted in the article 1/7 nyti.ms/2wtq94m
Lot of narratives about Black voters coming from folks making little to no attempt to actually grapple w/ the material conditions shaping & constraining Black people’s political decision making, i.e. limited responsiveness from elites, higher barriers to voting, etc 2/7
Aug 24, 2019 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
Whoa, did not expect to see this when I logged on today! Excited (& nervous) for this to soon be out in the world. Guess this is a good time to make the elevator pitch while the pup gets a haircut…1/x
From the Obama anger translator sketch to the “angry Black woman” trope to the scrutinization of athletes who take political stands, there’s broad recognition of the stigmatization of expressions of Black anger in the public imagination 2/x
