political scientist. writer. ethnographer. professor. speaker. podcaster. Black feminist + disability justice educator. Detroiter.
New York, NY
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I am proud to announce my book, Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life, is forthcoming from @TempleUnivPress in September 2024!
Pre-orders are now open! 📚
tupress.temple.edu/books/red…
Also, whoever designed the color palette for the #OKCThunder stadium lights, uniforms, fan t-shirts and even the paint on the basketball court, did an AMAZING job.
#ESPN #NBAFinals2025
That person clearly worked HARD.
The way the uniforms create a kind of camouflage/optical illusion, where the OKC uniforms blend in with the court and the fans all around them, is genius! I mean WOW.
#OKCThunder
What did it take to find the same color blue in fabric, floor paint, lighting, jersey material, and who knows what else?! That’s impossibly hard to do! Even if you just dye everything yourself.
I salute you anonymous sports color genius!
#ESPN #NBAFinals2025 #OKCThunder
Thank you @BrownPhDGirl and @ERSjournal for the review 🙏🏾.
Free copies of Redefining the Political can be downloaded wherever you get your ebooks! #OpenAccess
In Redefining the Political, Alex J. Moffett-Bateau challenges mainstream views of politics by centering the everyday political lives of Black women in Chicago public housing. Review by Nadia Brown: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.202…
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Something I appreciate about Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez, and Barbara Smith is they show how teaching is related to publishing, how what they and others wanted and needed to read and assign for classes had to be created, and they did that work too.
I began work on this project in 2010. I re-wrote this book countless times.
Let me tell you, getting a theory based ethnography about Black women published (in political science!), was not easy.
Me and rejection became close personal friends LOL.
But it has been so worth it!
Here is a wild fun fact…. I am making this announcement from my hospital bed, on my 50th day in the hospital due to #Lupus complications…
But REGARDLESS of what’s going on with my body, these stories will be told… and for that I will always be grateful 🙏🏾.
Hey folks,
Do any social science faculty have recommendations for methods books that approach auto-ethnography from a rigorous empirical perspective?
#methods
#qualitativemethods
#ethnography
#autoethnography
#empiricalresearch
#politicalscience
#socialsciences
From a purely political science standpoint, I can’t remind folks enough that white women in the U.S. (or globally for that matter) don’t tend to see themselves as a collective, let alone a socio-political community.
So from that standpoint, collective learning isn’t possible.
Political work is work that expands the political imagination of whoever you are around.
In actively teaching others (without judgement) about this political moment, you seed the ground for a future of unseen political possibility.
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Police violence at CCNY was more intense than at Columbia. There are reports of numerous students and faculty being tasered and pepper-sprayed by police on the Harlem campus. Two students had their teeth smashed and one undergraduate’s ankle was broken.
bit.ly/3K1Fcog
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Today's DP, relevant for this time of the year: "On Graduation."
"There is no useless knowledge, and the world will make space for you and you will make it make space for you, even if you sometimes have to tap a window open or kick a door down."
yasminnair.com/on-graduation…
“It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.”
- Zora Neale Hurston
#academic
#academicwriting
#writing
#anthropology
#Blackwomen
#research
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
- Zora Neale Hurston
#academic
#academicwriting
#research
#anthropology
#writing
#interviewing
#Blackwomen
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A nation that spends more money killing children than educating them has no future.
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“What job do I have if the students don't have a future?” Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard.
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Can we have a profession wide vote of no confidence in the corporate university? Vote of no confidence in donor governance? Vote of no confidence in the destruction of the humanities? Vote of no confidence in ballooning admin salaries and cuts to everything else? No confidence.
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Hi @cuny people. Today is a good day to remind @ChancellorCUNY of his responsibilities to our students and to drop the charges on the @cunygse students. NYU dropped the charges; Columbia students got misdemeanors so it's shameful under his watch our students are facing felonies.