20+ years of editorial experience. Intersectionality. CNF, Black studies, LGBTQ+, women's/gender studies, activism, history. Academics ➡️public intellectuals.
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Oh go get into this discussion with @rachelidatweets re: immigration policy. The horrors should alarm everyone.
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@draper_claire @carlywatters @agent_ayesha @AgentZacker know anyone looking for BIPOC upmarket literature? It's hot and so ready!!!
Is it instead “whiteness” that is the deficiency? And why is that question particularly unique in the United States? 10/
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With a cast of characters from around the world who populate this novel set in 20th century Oklahoma, it challenges readers to consider “what does it mean to be Black?” Is it skin deep? Is it community? Is it the absence of melanin, or the absence of whiteness? 9/
LA, a science prodigy, goes on to become a double board-certified physician and geneticist in pursuit of a cure for albinism. He finds it, but the melanin production lasts only a short time, thus curing the disease but not the most obvious symptom of it. 8/
Alabaster meets Penelope, the daughter of a local Klansman and minister at a white church in town, and have a child, LA (Little Alabaster). Penelope dies in childbirth, leaving Alabaster to raise LA within his familial and community network. 7/
So, it isn’t unusual that a police officer pulls over their family car when Reverend Bledsoe is driving, and Alabaster is in the back seat. Assumed white, Alabaster convinced the officer to let “his man” continue to drive. 6/
His community in Oklahoma knows he is Black (both by family adoption and by birth as he is at least half-Congolese), but white people who see him only as lacking melanin and thus more like them, don’t know his biological secret. 5/
For Reverend Bledsoe, being Black is only skin deep. Well, not even that. Orphaned in the Congo during WWII and rescued by a Sgt. Bledsoe and a nurse who became Mrs. Bledsoe after the war, Alabaster grew up with the autoimmune disease of albinism. 4/
where race is skin color and structures the whole of society, but opens imagination and action to the larger world of Black people as a part of the two-thirds majority of the world. 3/
In this debut novel, the question raises more questions: who gets to determine who is Black? How and why? Who wants to be Black? Why or why not? This dialogue-driven novel keeps the reader in the realistic world of small-town Oklahoma 2/
Our summer calendar went over full!! So our fall/winter calendar opens Sept 15!! Get in now because these slots fill quickly.
I once worked at a college where at least one woman was denied tenure every year. And they all had stellar careers as junior scholars and faculty. Damn.
Today I learned that @Columbia will not be promoting me or putting me up for tenure. I have multiple active grants (including an R01 and a CAREER award) plenty of publications, a teaching award, and a history of DEI advocacy. Open to all opportunities in and out of academia.
@TanaGaneva @rachelidatweets let’s talk about how y’all’s work intersects, overlaps, and makes a difference in this shitty world. Hugs to you both ♥️
@ADC_Alabama you’ve limited our voices in the state party. YOU did that. You are why the Dem Party will fail here (we aren’t even on the strategy for 2024!). @WorkingFamilies should swoop in and create a viable party that represents working people and their families.
As I finish work on spring projects, I'm thrilled to announce that we've seen 4 dissertations to completion, 3 books to contract, 2 books to agents, & 1 successful book launch!
Summer calendar opens on June 11 -- come and get your love, y'all!!! #blackfeminism #amediting #letsgo
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