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Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation, āThe Spectral Defect: Death, Diagnosis, and Determism Across the Atlantic World.ā The kid is officially #PhinisheD
The best part: I got to do it with a whole bunch of people I love!
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Join us on Monday 10/19 at 5:30pm to celebrate the publication of Anticolonialism and Social Thought (@CambridgeUP 2025). Editors Anaheed Al-Hardan and Julian Go will be joined in conversation by contributors Arwa Awan and Ibrahim Khan events.humanitix.com/anticolā¦
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The Department of History & Interdisciplinary Studies at Norfolk State University seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of African American History beginning August 2027.
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Some men are so afraid of being mistaken for gay that they let the fear of another man's opinion dictate how they dress, speak, walk and live.
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Adult friendships are basically like⦠Iām alive. I love you. Life is beating my ass. Talk soon.
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"Lanterns are cops. John Stewart's a superhero." - Tom King #Lanterns
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Yaāll are about to be sick of meā¦but my book Diasporic Connections (@ColumbiaUP) arrived today!! I finally got to hold it in my hands šš¾ After many years of researching, writing, editing, itās finally in book form š®āšØš®āšØš®āšØššš
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Looking forward to being in conversation with one of my favorite thinkers, Jessica Marie Johnson, at the @BmoreBookFest tomorrow.
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So inspiring to see the launch of the American Prison Writing Archiveās (@PrisonWitness) new collection Harm & Punishment at @redemmas, surrounded by many friends, comrades, & students.
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MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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Proud that my book AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION is 1 of 3 finalists for the Museum of African American Historyās Stone Book Award! The winner will be announced Oct. 8th & will receive $50K. Semi-finalists will receive $10K. Congrats to my fellow finalists & thanks to the jurors!
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My former student!
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Soooooooo, I wrote a book. Itād be cool if you read it. If not, I aināt trippinā
Scripted Death: How Medicine Justifies State Violence @NYUpress
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Excited for my BROTHER Professor P!
Soooooooo, I wrote a book. Itād be cool if you read it. If not, I aināt trippinā
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You are gonna want to read this. @PyarSeth did his thing! š„š®āšØ
Soooooooo, I wrote a book. Itād be cool if you read it. If not, I aināt trippinā
Scripted Death: How Medicine Justifies State Violence @NYUpress
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Preorder my ND colleagues forthcoming first book!
Soooooooo, I wrote a book. Itād be cool if you read it. If not, I aināt trippinā
Scripted Death: How Medicine Justifies State Violence @NYUpress
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Soooooooo, I wrote a book. Itād be cool if you read it. If not, I aināt trippinā
Scripted Death: How Medicine Justifies State Violence @NYUpress
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About foolish peopleās opinions of us, Nikki Giovanni said, āThe best thing you can do for yourself is to not pay attention.ā Cuz paying too much attention can make us ācrazyā or āmean.ā
āYou canāt let people you donāt know decide who you are.ā
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I'm happy to announce that my anthology of Black sea writing, I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea, is scheduled to be published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2026. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/booksā¦
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I love critical theory, I love seminars, I love reading groups, I love universities as public goods, I love historiography of disciplines and knowledge itself, I love difficulty and difficult questions, and I love the humanities being human. And that's the hill I die on.
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"Imperial Entanglements of Policing," edited by Julian Go and Stuart Schrader @stschrader1, examines how imperialism and colonialism have shaped, and been facilitated by, policing. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/5GRC7JH




























