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brandi t. summers

@drbrandi.bsky.social
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NYC-based, Oakland-bred professor at Columbia U. Write books and articles about blackness, gentrification, aesthetics, architecture, capital(ism), and other things. branditsummers.com

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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
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The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Read the latest from THE Jafari S. Allen on the dismantling of Black Studies www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Dismantling of Black Studies
Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Cuba sent doctors. Washington sent a destroyer.
The US blockade is killing not just a failing state, but six decades of a small island extending global solidarity.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"The ghosts of Oakland’s Black past are remembered and mobilized by different constituencies for different political ends, as the vampiric appetites of gentrification feed on the blood and bones of culture and infrastructure." @drbrandi.bsky.social, on the specter of Blackness haunting Oakland, CA:
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Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide
A specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"It is eerie and jarring to walk around this city and imagine how it used to be Black, and now is not. I never imagined that Oakland would stop being a Black city...would stop feeling like a Black city. How, now, do I deliver the attention this haunted landscape solicits?" — @drbrandi.bsky.social
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · 01/04/2026
I've been drawn into a number of pieces on the Black geographies of Oakland this week. @drbrandi.bsky.social's piece here fits with @oaklandreviewofbooks.org review of Freaky Tales. dr. brandi writes, "what I remember most about Oakland is what I call 'the lost years', the 1980s and ’90s".
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"The logic of urbicide in the continuous rebuilding of cities necessitates the destruction of Black place. I'd add that urbicide presumes as its justification a preexisting placelessness, an expectation that Black and poor people are ontologically predisposed to do without." — @drbrandi.bsky.social
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Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide
A specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders.
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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New essay by @drbrandi.bsky.social on the Black ghosts that in their haunting traces define the Oakland we live inside.
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My latest… It was an honor to get to write a bit about my late grandmother and my family’s journey to and through Oakland.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“By reassembling lost urban histories, the people involved, and their networks of relationship, we can see a layer of community organizing that has held a neighborhood and a city together.” This is the ethos animating community archival work. Read more from @drbrandi.bsky.social & Moriah Ulinskas.
Members of the WOPC seated before a chalkboard outlining their demand for control of federal antipoverty funds in West Oakland, in 1968.Paul Cobb addresses the Oakland City Council, standing beside a chalkboard, presenting the group’s demand for control of federal antipoverty funds in West Oakland, in 1968.A meeting of the Prescott Neighborhood Council, seated in a circle in a home in Oakland, in the 1960s. West Oakland Planning Committee standing at a meeting with the Oakland City Council in 1968.
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
.@criticalsoc.bsky.social just ran a great critical review forum on my 2022 book 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, including contributions from @juliango.bsky.social, @drbrandi.bsky.social, Alex Loftus, and Crystal Eddins, with a response from me. Free PDF version in the thread.
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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America Is Demolishing Antiracism Five Years After the George Floyd Uprisings
Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some...
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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Simbones @hellsprout.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The way Columbia students have held it down >>>>
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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America’s Hidden Racial Divide: A Mysterious Gap in Psychosis Rates
Black Americans experience schizophrenia and related disorders at twice the rate of white Americans. It’s a disparity that has parallels in other cultures.
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto
Read the manifesto the media refused to publish
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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What the recall of progressives in the Bay Area says about Asian American views on crime
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County DA Pamela Price were ousted last week as many locals, including Asian Americans, shift toward tougher crime policies.
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brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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This, Our Second Nadir - Boston Review
We need a restoration of historical thinking.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
And just like that, there's 3! The THIRD installment of "Field Notes: Repair" is out now. Read dispatches from dozens of scholars, designers, planners & activists who share their observations on the issues they find most relevant in practices of repair, maintenance & care. A new series in Places:
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Field Notes on Repair: 3
The third installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, and activists share observations on practices of repair, preservation, and care.
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