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P. Gabrielle Foreman Profile picture
P. Gabrielle Foreman
@profgabrielle
Lover of justice. Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Mar 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Jonathan Gibbs became Florida's 4th Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1873 after serving as its first and only Black Secretary of State. Gibbs advocated for education as a civil right in the 1868 Constitution and oversaw a rapid expansion of public education. In Florida, the KKK was so enraged by Jonathan Gibbs's success in the realm of education and civil rights and by his roles as Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction that he slept armed in his attic to better defend himself if attacked.
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Jan 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
As many as 3-5% of admitted students at these elite Universities were under-qualified and over-privileged, given spots to leverage fundraising.

Lots of these schools barely have 5% Black students and TT faculty. #AcademicChatter #highereducation #highered The other 15 universities in the lawsuit are @Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, #Dartmouth, Emory, Georgetown, #MIT, #Northwestern, Notre Dame, Penn, Rice, Vanderbilt and #Yale.

Perhaps economically challenged superstar students will take their talents elsewhere.
Nov 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
I want to talk about indexing and #CiteBlackWomen. Finishing a book? INDEXING can erase or *highlight* emerging + the most established scholars. We had to point to where @marthasjones_, Frances Smith Foster, Carla Peterson and @dgburgher should appear and hadn’t fully or at all. The *practices* of indexing almost erasedFrances Foster’s contribution to this volume there. She had been cited by half the contributors but mostly in their endnotes—which were not as closely indexed. Not any more. 👉🏽We have to pay attention and advocate to #CiteBlackWomen.👈🏾
Oct 12, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Black tax in housing makes me mad every day. At *closing,* my loan didn’t go thru despite my 790 credit rating, a letter saying I had a tenured job + two decades at my previous job. Turns out the mortgage loan officer entered Black under race. (He didn’t bother to ask me). The white couple selling the house—knowing I had a tenured job/great credit—waited till closer to my job start date as the bank officer suggested. The housing market tanked. The mortgage didn’t go thru, cause, well, I was still Black. The sellers lost the home they had bid on.
Jul 14, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
So the Dean/Chair/Provost asks you to sit on the Diversity/Equity taskforce (a thread).

You: What can you take off my plate to make this possible? Repeat if nec.

Right answer: a course release.

Wrong answer: anything that has to do with “expertise,” and “appreciation.” You: What resources can you provide so this doesn’t impede my scholarship? (Repeat if nec).

Dean/Chair: 1) a research assistant/team or 2) your @NCFDD tuition or 3) do you want to go to @TheOpEdProject or . . .

Wrong answer: b/c of Covid we don’t have such resources . . .