PhD candidate: history of immigration and (de)naturalization law @ucsbhistory | MA @uwsouthasia | Black Lives Matter | Abolish ICE | Free Palestine | she/her
Mar 28 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
i hate to be a "historian here" ass bitch but i'm gonna. I'm a historian of US immigration and citizenship law, and i have a lot of thoughts on not only the ICE abductions but some of the popular liberal responses to them. 1/x
during the Palmer Raids of the 1920s, US AG J. Mitchell Palmer targeted for denaturalization and deportation "political radicals" (communists, labor organizers, etc). Most famous was Emma Goldman. 2/x
Mar 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
every quarter i give my students an extra credit assignment to make a meme about something we covered in class. this quarter i taught US History from approx 1815-1920(ish), and the kids had some spicy takes (thread of memes)
Antebellum America and Indian Removal
