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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia By Angela Simms Publisher's page: www.russellsage.org/publications...

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Looking forward to hearing about this new work from Angie Simms, esp about the schooling story in places like PG County MD. @barnardcollege.bsky.social. Congrats Prof Simms! #edusky

Photo of book cover for Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia, which shows a portrait of a Black woman in a black turtleneck against a green background.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Such a great convo, and an honor to be there with these brilliant folks.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#tdih 1968 The Young Lords were established in Chicago to fight gentrification, police brutality, racism, & more. Watch doc “Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed . . . ” ⬇️ Read “The Young Lords: A Radical History” by Johanna Fernández 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/yo...

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Sept. 23, 1968: Young Lords Founded

The Young Lords were established in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, led by a street activist named Cha Cha Jiménez, who organized the group to fight local gentrification, police brutality, and racism.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

were equally outraged that they never knew that either. Of course, the intellectual mission & transformations of these programs are irreducible to these two isolated anecdotes, but they capture students’ thorough understanding of just how essential they are & why they are being eliminated.”3/3

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the speech he wrote for delivery at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” the whole class was gobsmacked. And when they learned that Lyndon Johnson had cut the feed on Fannie Lou Hamer’s famous “I Question America” speech to the Credentials Committee at the 1964 DNC, they 2/

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not only are students interested in these programs, many actually flock to them. I suspect there are numerous teachers in these programs who heard numerous students ask “Why wasn’t I taught this before?” When Congressman John Lewis Skyped into my class to discuss the two different versions of 1/

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...

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The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Starting the 2026-27 speaker series strong! Raquel Otheguy on her book * Black Freedom and Education in 19th C Cuba* @teacherscollege.bsky.social

Event poster for lecture by Raquel Alicia Otheguy, PhD on her book Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Shows a photo of Otheguy, a light-skinned woman with curly brown hair wearing a maroon shirt and a copy of her book cover.
Location: Zankel Hall Room 112, Thursday, September 17, 5:30 pm.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Terrible news, indeed. Thank you for your service, Secretary Bunch.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’ve been here before: US highway construction destroyed livability & value for hundreds of thousands of (urban, many Black) Americans who lived not IN, but NEAR, the path of the road. Largely uncompensated. And, of course, highways > cars > pollution > climate crisis.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Like many fellow profs, I’m here at my laptop observing Laboring Day. Syllabus *almost* done. Canvas sites…. Ugh.

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🎃 Mac O'Lantern 🎃 @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My cousin's daughter was exposed to so much mold in the UCSB dorms she nearly dropped out due to illness

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great book!

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Whew, September 1. Over a tough, good, interesting summer, a major highlight was READING. So many people doing brilliant work out there. What were your summer faves from the non-fiction shelves?

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Whew, September 1. Over a tough, good, interesting summer, a major highlight was READING. So many people doing brilliant work out there. What were your summer faves from the non-fiction shelves?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

These stories should be headline news everywhere. We are not just in a political crises but a dangerously immoral one.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My 18yo camp counselor kid heard from her campers that their school buses at home had cameras/mics trained on them to listen for the word “gun.” “Surveillance is not the same as safety, and a school where every student feels watched is not necessarily a school where every student feels safe.”

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great read for getting ready for a new school year where we ask students and ourselves as teachers to “attend to one another, at length, on purpose,” and to do the same with ideas.

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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Beautiful.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And no uní that I have worked at has… At least institutional resources should be deployed in ways that align with purported values, even if individual behavior lags.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Or even a religious holiday calendar… 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And the perpetual question of why our unis can’t send out a religious calendar holiday to make sure we are all attentive….????

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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 25/08/2026

Stuck in New Haven rush-hour traffic? At least there’s something worth reading along the way. 👀 Two 48-foot billboards sponsored by Indivisible Civics along I-91 and I-95 read: “Yale is failing intro to ethics by cutting a deal with Trump.” 🧵 1/5

White graphic with the text, “Two 48-foot billboards along I-91 and I-95 read…” followed by very large black letters: “Yale: Don’t Cave.” Below, text reads, “Indivisible takes the campaign to New Haven.” A photograph shows one of the digital billboards partially obscured by tree branches. The billboard says Yale is “failing intro to ethics by cutting a deal with Trump” and includes a circled red F and YaleDontCave.com. Photo credited to Gregg Gonsalves via Yale Daily News.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It did what

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Dave Bennion @david-bennion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Unfortunately it's not true in the narrow sense either, since this has been common practice since Obama's second term.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Real talk, all of this right now (in the U.S. anyway) is mostly about the fact that some people eked out the power to say, “no” and some other people lost their entitled minds over it.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m so so sorry Marisa. I appreciate your sharing, and hope that it helps you heal.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/08/2026

Again, “academic freedom” does not mean immunity from the consequences of holding views that have been discredited by peer review, nor does it cover not doing the job you were hired to do. Cofnas was literally not doing the job he was hired to do.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Next they will ask if you have heard of the field called sociology.

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Alyssa GO SEE #NAZA 📽️ @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Unfortunately, it’s also not true that THIS is new… people just have not been aware that we’ve been doing it. In 2016 in San Diego, I met many young hope-filled Haitians who had crossed legally to request asylum… and who the government had slapped ankle monitors on until their court dates. 🤬💔

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Martyn Lenoble @martynlenoble.bandcamp.com · 22/08/2026

Let us not forget the yellow badges and ghettos in nazi Germany.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026

yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery

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~ ~ Kewl Boromir ~~ @kewlboromir.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Idk its not that true in the narrow sense, they've been putting ankle monitors on peaceful noncitizens going to imm ct for my whole career (since Obama). Difference of scale and to some degree who they are pursuing charges against (due to the great illegalization).

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 22/08/2026

What’s unseeable, for the NYT and ilk, is the continuity between those eras/contexts and our own. “Few precedents” require that we not admit precedents outside of USA 1964-present.

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 22/08/2026

Put otherwise: It DOES have precedent, if the NYT is willing to see it.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Breaking my heart this morning: “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent.” True in the narrowest sense. False given how the history of slavery and peonage roars through each part of this story.

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In Ohio, Haitians Feel Shaken by Ankle Monitors and Increased ICE Presence

The devices, which will make it easier for authorities to locate immigrants in Springfield if large-scale deportations begin, have intensified a sense of dread.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yes, I think developing the habit of NOT trusting at face value might be the main task of a historical methods seminar, so this argument certainly squares. And I am still thinking through this for people who are stronger in a language other than English in a reading-intensive class in English.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What do you think about the translation ban? I have guesses based on what I know of your own scholarly work but am curious, if you’re willing to share. (And agreed - this is so great to see and a helpful reinforcement for my thinking going in to a seminar context this fall).

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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

While I believe the University can support individual faculty members on repositioning their research, I think the most important thing it can do is to work with other universities to fight administration policies that are undermining the entire higher education enterprise.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🗣 Everyone should read LowerEd, which was about the political economy of all higher ed institutions and not just for-profits

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