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Chris Dingwall

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studying and teaching the history of race and capitalism in American material culture @ the Sam Fox School in St. Louis

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Publishing this month: BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO offers a rich exploration Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their work influenced modern Black life. buff.ly/cWYxtxX
“Black Designers in Chicago” photographed against a blue background.
The book photographed lying open with pages showing textile design.A photograph of the book standing up with the pages slightly fanned open.
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well this looks outstanding.
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Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu
Black Designers in Chicago
A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life.   In twentieth-century Chicago, generati...
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you are employed as a teacher, researcher, graduate student, or in a related professional appointment at a college or university, you can support this work (and protect your own job) by joining the AAUP: www.aaup.org/join-aaup
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Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With writing by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Jacqueline Goldsby, Brenna Greer, Kinohi Nishikawa (@kinohi.bsky.social), Norman Teague, and Daniel Schulman
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Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The beautiful cover and typography is designed by Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab who draws from from fabric patterns designed by textile artist and book contributor Robert Earl Paige
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Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu
Black Designers in Chicago
A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life.   In twentieth-century Chicago, generati...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
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Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Wise advice from Hungary: The only way university leaders have a chance against Trump is forming a broad alliance with other institutions and enlisting "American families, employers, unions," + more. Going it alone won't work. Hiding and appeasing (duck and cover) won't stop systematic "vandalism."
chronicle.com
How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime
Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do.
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Dripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Mike Copeland has been delivering mail in Detroit for the past 45 years. 📸 credit: Sam Robinson
Mike Copeland in his USPS attire. His jacket is covered in commemorative pins and buttons. He is leaning against the wall with a cigarette in his left hand. Close up of Mike Copeland with his USPS jacket covered in pins
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Uyghurs in Paris @suckonda4evr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Spent the afternoon with the papers of the Midwest Committee to Protect the Foreign Born, part of a national network fighting political deportations during the height of the Cold War. These "Know Your Rights" cards--similar to those circulating today--remind us that the fight has been a long one
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/03/2025
We call for the immediate release of former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Kahlil, a legal permanent resident of the US. His abduction is an assault not only on basic immigration law but on our 1st Amendment protections of freedom of speech & assembly. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
aaup.org
AAUP Condemns Trump Administration’s Punitive Weaponization of Federal Grant Funding at Columbia
The Trump administration has taken the unprecedented move of cancelling $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University in alleged response to “inaction by Columbia’s administratio...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/03/2025
We're still soliciting applications for this position as tenured associate professor of History / associate director of UMass' Slavery North initiative 🗃️ careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 07/03/2025
History circular nature of, 26 don’t learn from it, doomed to repeat it, 35-7 Faulkner cliché that “past is never dead, it’s not even past,” 111-114 Jerry Lewis theory of, 215
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Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Very excited to share some new work at the African American History seminar at MHS on March 21. The paper is about Chicago-based textile designer Robert E. Paige, the history behind his remarkable Dakkabar Collection for Sears (1973-1974), and interior decoration in the Black Arts Movement
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Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Very excited to share some new work at the African American History seminar at MHS on March 21. The paper is about Chicago-based textile designer Robert E. Paige, the history behind his remarkable Dakkabar Collection for Sears (1973-1974), and interior decoration in the Black Arts Movement
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
#polyglot #LangSky
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/03/2025
remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/02/2025
meme format: STOP DOING RICH TEXT
- WORDS DON'T NEED TO BE DIFFERENT SHAPES
- YEARS OF (microsoft word text format bar) YET NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR STRIKETHROUGH
- Wanted to emphasize language We had a tool for that: It was called "write better"
- "Yes please give me words I can click" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Microsoft have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the Markdown& .txt we built for them
(This is REAL formatting done by REAL writers

RTF file icon: ??????
In-line rich text formatting pop up: ???????
Microsoft Word "Style" designer: ??????????
"Hello I would like WIGGLY LETTERS"
They have played us for absolute fools
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Max Read @maxread.info · 25/02/2025
one thing this demonstrates is the extent to which racial, gender, and sexual discrimination has been an important cause and substance of worker organizing, rather than (as is too often claimed) some kind of HR-driven distraction
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:
newyorker.com
The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
D.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This also describes libraries, except they don’t run on plagiarism and potable water
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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025
Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive conservation workshop for HBCU students! In an intensive week-long workshop, students learn photograph conservation and engage with the Archive. July 13–18, 2025, in Chicago. Application deadline: Feb 21. www.getty.edu/projects/con... #archives #BlackHistory
Graphic, featuring a black and white photograph of an Afroed Angela Davis from the early 1970s, promoting the "Introduction to the Conservation of Photographs Workshop with the Johnson Publishing Company Archive.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org
labor4highered.org
Labor for Higher Education
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
All the right wing populist op-ed hacks in Canada have been fronting for Poilievre for 2+ years but Trump’s 51st State threats have put them on the spot: they secretly want Canada to become part of the States but only so they personally can get hired to work there, impossible for em any other way
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
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mckinsey egg price gouging specialist @10000thmule.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
also im gonna be real with you freed slaves carried that flag into battle against their former masters and it represents a country where it's your god given right to burn it. you're goddamned right i'll wrap myself in that fucking thing. it doesn't belong to this fucking nazi cabal we call the GOP.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/02/2025
There are a lot of things going on in the rise of Silicon Valley fascism, but one of the most important is simply spiraling impunity due to the political class's increasing reliance on magical high tech narratives as a substitute for real, difficult policy.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
‘Do you have any light reading?’ ‘How about this pamphlet, Talented Canadian Bands’?
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/02/2025
It's unfortunate that the history of the Civil Rights movement has been rewritten as "We marched peacefully until our enemies grew a conscience". MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly."
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Evie Hemphill @evhemphill.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"In St. Louis, the leaders are pathologizing some riders and telling the rest that their enjoyment and convenience do not matter. The heavy, sharp infrastructure of gates matches the concrete barricades that populate the streets of downtown St. Louis and the riverfront." -Michael Allen
moundcitymessenger.com
MetroLink Gates Put Ordinary St. Louisans In Their Place
On January 1, Belgrade made mass transit free while St. Louis is spending $52 million on security gates for its MetroLink, neglecting user needs. Is civic imagination suffering amid crime-focused n…
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“Behind the AI boom looms an expanding asset bubble. Big Tech firms, venture capitalists, and the fossil fuel sector all work to ratchet up investment.” @edwardongwesojr.com
bostonreview.net
The Plot Against Finance - Boston Review
Any public agenda will have to take on Wall Street.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
my generation had a good and normal alternative to someone like Jordan Peterson, and it was the Beastie Boys, who dispensed invaluable life lessons like "if you've got bad breath then maybe try Scope/if you wash your ass, you best use soap"
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/01/2025
Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster
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Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I believe the intent of this moment is to unravel New Deal sensibilities, and attack existing civil rights in place since the 19th century.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 24/01/2025
“Harvard likely read the room, so to speak, from a political perspective, and decided to cut their losses.” In this period of capitulation, it probably won’t be the last school to fall in line. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia
The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 20/01/2025
Wrote about Las Vegas, the rise of gambling, CES, AI propaganda, and the exterminist future we are racing towards thetechbubble.substack.com/p/trapped-in...
thetechbubble.substack.com
Trapped in the Maw of a Stillborn God (Pt. 1)
Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions at CES, and the future.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025
personally i think one should just ignore anti-anti-trump academics who have done nothing but obscure the reality of the situation facing the nation in favor of grinding axes against people they don’t like
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Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Handy reading list here to get up to speed on the political economy of “AI” and all the hype…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
wsj.com
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/2025
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
erininthemorning.com
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is Biden’s legacy and on the conscience of every Democrat who didn’t speak out. If Trump does get a ceasefire by applying the slightest bit of pressure on Israel it will be a deserved final humiliation for Biden and his team.
nytimes.com
Estimated Gaza Toll May Have Missed 25,000 Deaths, Study Says
Analysis found that more than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war.
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