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Jimmy James West

@ejwestuk.bsky.social
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I write about media, race, rights, Chicago, built environment, other stuff. History prof at UCL. Author of 5 books of varying quality. I like fixed gear bikes and being outside.

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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 12h
Not exactly an original thought, but every time I think Hegseth couldn't be more of a fucking prick, wouldn't you know he pulls it off. Total. Fucking. Prick.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great to see JAAH special issue on 100 years of Black history commemoration out in the world, edited by Daryl Scott and Karsonya Wise Whitehead. Includes a piece by yours truly on political Blackness and the creation of Black History Month in Britain. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jaah/202...
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The Journal of African American History | Vol 111, No 3
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
LOSER SHIT.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are holding a digital launch for our BlackPress@200 site on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 5.30pm EST - excited to preview some of the digital tools and resources that we've been working on! Register at: bit.ly/3UgSMg5
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For anyone not familiar I strongly recommend @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social - in just the last few weeks they've hosted conversations with Marcia Chatelain, Mabel Wilson, Brandon Byrd, and Shana Redmond, among others. Truly a wonderful resource.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am, once again, incredibly bitter not to be in Chicago mid-to-late October for Open House.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are holding a digital launch for our BlackPress@200 site on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 5.30pm EST - excited to preview some of the digital tools and resources that we've been working on! Register at: bit.ly/3UgSMg5
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Labor Day sale for "A Full Measure of Freedom" and other JHUP books - 30 percent off through Sept. 9 and free shipping on orders over $50 with code HLAB26
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If I was a eugenicist, and I looked this, I would be too embarrassed to ever leave the house.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Oh you're sitting a Mastiff-Rottweiler cross? Are they hard dogs to handle?" The dog:
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
25 percent off and free shipping through August 6 at @hopkinspress.bsky.social with code HSUM26 - never been a better time to pre-order "A Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200" ! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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A Full Measure of Freedom
The Black Press at 200
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Congrats to Lydia and Megan, who have a cool new collection out on teaching American Studies in Britain with @edinburghup.bsky.social. I have an chapter on spatial literacy and disciplinary identity, lots of other great contributions too! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-teachin...
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Teaching American Studies in Britain
Teaching American Studies in Britain
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Working on proofs for a new piece I'm excited to get out, exploring the creation of Black History Month in Britain, transnational activism, and political blackness in the 1980s
Title of forthcoming article on Black History Month in Britain - "Staking a Claim for Our Struggles and Existence: Community Activist, Strategic Essentialism, and the Creation of Black History Month in Britain"Photograph from the first Black History Month commemorations in Britain, 1987. C/O BlackHistoryMonth.org
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A masterpiece.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Been meaning to recommend Amani's wonderful new book on kitchenettes and the Great Migration in Chicago - wonderful to see this important project develop over the years and a fantastic contribution to urban studies, literary studies, and histories of Black Chicago, nyupress.org/978147984088...
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A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs
Uncovers how Chicago's kitchenette apartments shaped housing, race, and urban life in the twentieth centuryDuring the twentieth century’s Great Migration, ...
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Evelyn Welch, what the fuck are you talking about? You're pushing through a voluntary redundancy scheme in the humanities at Bristol right now! This is just the hotdog guy meme but with actual stakes. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Florence Welch’s mother says cuts to arts and humanities ‘absolutely tragic’
Exclusive: Prof Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, believes her daughter’s success shows value of arts education
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
also, working class is no longer a class, but a cultural signifier. if you work as a nail technician, you're working class, but no one pitches their entire political campaign at you.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Cautiously excited for new Ali miniseries on Amazon Prime, and a good moment to reflect on Michael Mann's 2001 biopic - a wildly flawed film with some transcendent moments, including the opening scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAx0...
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Ali Opening Scene "Bring it on Home to Me" (4K Remastered )
YouTube video by Berna Cruz
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For those of us who see Palestinians as human beings, this was Starmer's defining moment. It is not sustainable to behave in this way while leading the nominally progressive party in a two party system. Starmer's unpopularity is not one of life's great mysteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_s...
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Keir Starmer denies saying Israel 'has the right' to withhold water and power from citizens in Gaza
YouTube video by LBC
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 18/06/2026
Israel has now killed over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the so-called “ceasefire” took effect last October. Palestinian-Canadian lawyer @dianabuttu.bsky.social explains how Israel has continued its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Read the full story — zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...
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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The solution to genocide isn't to let it happen and then maybe prosecute a few of the perpetrators after the fact. Boycott, divest, sanction.
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What Ceasefire? Israel Has Now Killed Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza Since October
To Israel, the word ‘ceasefire’ simply means to continue its genocide – to keep killing, starving, and torturing Palestinians – just at a slower pace.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Read Saima, always excellent! ♥️
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Two exciting Black Press opportunities - an early career workshop and publishing opportunity on the Global Black Press at Brown University (July 1 deadline), and a two-day symposium in March 2027 at Howard University to mark the Bicentennial of the Black Press (September 18 deadline).
Call for Papers: The Black Press at 200 - an international symposium to be held at Howard University in March 2027. Deadline for submissions is September 18Call for Papers: Black Journalism in Global Perspective, an early career workshop and publishing collaboration at Brown University in October 2026. Applications due by July 1, 2026.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's "stick your whole head inside a frozen Greek yoghurt pot" hot for Ernie.
Ernie, a greyhound, cooling down with some yoghurt.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
820 EBONY/JET Really pleased to see this come together for Barbara, who has been working on this project for more than a decade. Text by Deb Willis, Brenna Greer, Carla Williams, myself and others, available to pre-order for SEP '26 release. www.artbook.com/978196930304...
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
God forbid I have a private life.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Registration now open for the BMRC 20th anniversary symposium, Chicago, June 17-18 - join us! Full line-up here: bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/events/bmrc-...
Poster for the BMRC 20th anniversary symposium in Chicago, June 2026
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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The most thorough history of public benches I’ve ever read! placesjournal.org/article/the-...
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The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Getting closer to the Black Press bicentennial in 2027 and we have a cover for our collection marking this landmark anniversary! Out in December and available to pre-order now from www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... - please consider asking your local library or university to purchase.
Cover of "A Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200"
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Wonderful project on poetry in the early Black Press by Charline Jao: periodicalpoets.com
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About · Periodical Poets
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Our forthcoming JHUP collection to mark the Bicentennial of the Black Press in 2027 now has a webpage! You can see the provisional ToC with all our fantastic contributors. Cover design will hopefully be getting confirmed soon, book out December '26 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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A Full Measure of Freedom
The Black Press at 200
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I am once again asking academics who introduce their newborns to the world as "their first co-authored publication" or equivalent: who hurt you and why are you like this?
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Just published open access in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social ‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This sucks man. What a loss.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If anyone is in Toronto next week on Feb. 19, come see us talk about our UCL-UofT funded project on ethnic media and digital transition.
Poster for event with E. James West and Sherry Yu at University of Toronto, February 19, 2026, "Diaspora and Media in Digital Transition"
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Black Chicago History, Feb 26 with CDS and BMRC: events.uchicago.edu/event/259892...
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If everything goes to plan, one of the next books in our Black Press Studies series with JHUP will be exploring how the Black Press covered this trial and the subsequent campaign to free Rosa Lee Ingram and her sons.
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housequinn.bsky.social @housequinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy Tuesday only and exclusively to Sade Adu www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPc...
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Sade - The Sweetest Taboo - Official - 1985
YouTube video by SadeVEVO
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Just received an 11 page powerpoint and a "deployment plan" because our building is getting new bins. In between this and the new branding emails I'm on the precipice, ngl
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Near and far: Pico de la Nieves and rediscovering some old off-road routes around mine
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
My enemy grows stronger. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Warmer seas bring record number of octopuses to UK waters
The Wildlife Trusts say its is 'flabbergasted' by the sighting of the highest number of octopuses since 1950
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Dope new book klaxon www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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The Moving Word — Harvard University Press
A revelatory account of Black Atlantic political thought in the era of decolonization, revealing how West African and Caribbean newspapers invigorated debates about imperialism, capitalism, and Black ...
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
'tis the book-flogging season, so would be remiss of me not to highlight 40 percent off my books with @umasspress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY) and @illinoispress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY40) - plenty of other great books also available!
Cover of "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr." by James WestCover of "A House for the Struggle" by James WestCover of "Our Kind of Historian" by James West
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
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2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
After we all had fun about Warwick its now my turn to eat shit, As UCL has officially launched its bicentennial "rebrand" buzzwords! narratives! logos! kill me! www.ucl.ac.uk/brand-and-ex...
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The UCL brand
We're refreshing our brand ready for our bicentenary in 2026, so that it honours our past, while looking confidently to our future.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org
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Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Babe wake up new Hazel Carby just dropped www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Racial Fictions
Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized acr...
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