Reposted by Natasha WarikooCynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025It’s pub day! Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for this amazing animated announcement 🔥 1388
Reposted by Natasha WarikooMichelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Get out and vote TODAY, Boston! 🗳️ Check where you vote at wheredoivotema.com and find more voting info at michelleforboston.com/vote. 211862
Reposted by Natasha WarikooIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025New #Identities Symposium: 'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter In our latest issue: www.tandfonline.com/... @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social 064
Reposted by Natasha WarikooIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025'The benefits of longitudinal ethnography' Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 073
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I loved revisiting the lives of the young men in The Asian Gang for this review of the Asian Gang Revisited. The book came out just as I started graduate school and I learned a lot from it back then as well as now! 021
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Please join a Book Forum discussion of my book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools at the ASA conference in less than 2 weeks! Monday 2 pm Central I can't wait! @soceducation.bsky.social www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...asanet.orgBook Forum | American Sociological AssociationBehind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality (Session Organizer) Aaron Benanav; (Session Organizer) Sigrid Willa Luhr, 051
Reposted by Natasha WarikooAdam Harris @adamhsays.com · 27/06/2025things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus. 539855
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025many congratulations you guys! So well deserved!! 020
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025All of this makes me feel disconnected from those I'm communicating with, whether close friends or people I've never even met. It's the mere possibility of AI mediating interactions. I can't see how we go back, either. 4/4 000
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025And now my new iphone uses AI to summarize text threads. But I want to hear my friends in their authentic voices! I want to feel them in the room, and notice the nuance with which they write. The AI summary takes that away in the name of efficiency. 3/4 110
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025It's made me realize just how much I value and appreciate the way that words connect us. I didn't realize this until AI was constantly in the backdrop, whether or not someone has used it. 2/4 100
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025As much as I try to be open-minded, I feel a real loss with AI's presence. During any ritual (most recently, graduation & other inspirational speeches), rather than take in the beauty and complexity of a speaker's words, I keep wondering if it truly coming from their soul or from AI. 1/4 110
Reposted by Natasha WarikooW. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is a must read/cite/teach article from @nwarikoo.bsky.social. 072
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025@soceducation.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @scholars.org @annualreviews.bsky.social 010
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025My hope is that the piece will help some make sense of the success of the attacks on affirmative action and the problems with the diversity frame. I hope many scholars are developing studies to understand the short- and long-term impacts of the decision, which I believe will be profound. 4/4 051
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The reverse discrimination frame has proved even more powerful than I understood when I finished the piece pre-inauguration. Note today's White House discussion about white Afrikaners, despite every other refugee/asylum-seeking group being rejected and some even removed. 3/4 141
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Who knew that even the diversity frame--which many, including myself, critiqued--would come under systematic attack by the federal government. And that Trump would rescind Johnson's 1965 EO requiring affirmative action in firms with federal contracts. 2/4 151
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...annualreviews.orgThe Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions | Annual ReviewsAffirmative action began as a bipartisan policy to address racial inequality in the workplace and in higher education. Given its small footprint in college admissions (most colleges never practiced it... 26024
Reposted by Natasha WarikooDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 22/04/2025On this Earth Day 2025, it seems like a good day to remind everyone about how we are going to / need to Save Ourselves. Check out my TEDTalk for details 👇 0169
Reposted by Natasha WarikooAnil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back 522402720
Reposted by Natasha WarikooNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol... 151220353
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is the book that lays out just world theory with evidence (lots since then, too): a.co/d/6iPNTJEa.coAmazon.com 010
Reposted by Natasha WarikooBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t... 10394233
Reposted by Natasha WarikooBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Guy out of frame: "You don't look like police. Why are you hiding your faces? Why are you hiding your faces?" 25912
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Video of arrest of Tufts international student today is harrowing. I am speechless. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...bostonglobe.comVideo shows masked agents arresting Tufts student - The Boston GlobeWithin seconds, five officers surrounded a Tufts PhD student from Turkey, and she was pleading with them, according to a security camera recording of the arrest obtained by the Globe. 030
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025harrowing account of detainees' arrival in El Salvador. No human should be treated like this, even if accused/convicted of a crime. We are guilty of crimes against humanity. 010
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Every elite college president (and board member) needs to read @charlieeaton.bsky.social clear-eyed take on how large endowments can and should be used by universities as sites for truth-seeking in a democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight TrumpEvery university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months. 033
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social captures something I wish more were talking about: now that SCOTUS + POTUS have dismantled the utility of the weak diversity/DEI frame on race, we might as well emphasize power, equity, and justice: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... @washingtonpost.comwashingtonpost.comOpinion | What should come after DEI? PFJ.Although dismantling DEI was wrong, something better can replace it. 1287
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Beautiful thread about my wonderful colleague Sam Sommers. He was also a wonderful Tufts community member. I had LOTS of questions as I prepared to teach my department's intro class for the first time this semester--and was so generous and gracious with my endless queries. And so much more, too. 070
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Academics: here's one small thing you can DO-sign this letter that affirms the importance of truth-seeking for democracy. I can't believe we are here but we are. And please share with me what else you are doing-I need ideas for action! 102
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Yes! I can't believe there isn't more of statements like this coming fast and furious. And fellow faculty-would love for you to share how you are addressing this moment in your classrooms if you are. 273
Reposted by Natasha WarikooScholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 07/03/2025📢 Trump is preparing an executive order to try to dismantle the Dept. of Education. What does this move mean for K-12 and higher education? For reporters covering this question & related developments, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️ 🔗 scholars.org/features/exp...scholars.org8 Experts Available for Timely Analysis on Impacts of Trump's Executive Order to Dismantle the Department of Education | Scholars Strategy NetworkWith President Trump preparing to sign an executive order to try to dismantle the Education Department, there are many questions about what the effects of such a move would be for K-12 and higher educ... 123
Reposted by Natasha WarikooCinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Our article, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination," is in Contexts Magazine! This is an extension of our award-winning book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism. 📖 Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io... 0102
Reposted by Natasha WarikooChronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 27/02/2025A legal challenge to OCR’s Dear Colleague letter argues that the department’s references to discrimination are too vague, and fail to give clear indication of what programs are illegal. chroni.cl/3EVYpshchroni.clLawsuit Challenges Ed. Dept.’s Authority to Ban Diversity Programs, Alter Teaching on RaceThe Office of Civil Rights’ guidance would have a “devastating” effect on professors’ efforts to provide viewpoint diversity and equal opportunity in the classroom, the plaintiffs argue. 12711
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025This is not Trump, but a Democratic governor attacking academic freedom. Hochul intervened in the standard hiring process. Scholars need to pay close attention to attacks on inquiry + learning. ED "dear colleagues" letter deadline is tomorrow, unless a judge intervenes. 041
Reposted by Natasha WarikooDemocracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 25/02/2025Democracy Forward represents @aftunion.bsky.social, @aftmaryland.bsky.social & @asanews.bsky.social, in lawsuit challenging the Dept of Ed's new policy threatening to withhold federal funding for education institutions that do not comply with its weaponization of civil rights laws. (1/2) 6384110
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Proud to be a member ( @asanews.bsky.social )and former member ( @aftunion.bsky.social - as a NYC teacher) of the 2 orgs suing over the dangerous "Dear Colleagues" letter from OCR of the Dept of Education. Hopeful court stops this before Friday. democracyforward.org/updates/chal...democracyforward.orgEducators Sue to Challenge Trump Administration's Efforts to Weaponize Civil Rights Laws, Attack Educational Programs and Student Opportunities - Democracy Forward 010
Reposted by Natasha WarikooVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This gets at something I've been trying to articulate about the attacks on science and the academy. I've seen folks worried that our work matters (and I've worried this myself). But there is no bigger confirmation that it matters than these irrational freaks attacking it. 310220
Reposted by Natasha WarikooBart Bonikowski @bartbonikowski.bsky.social · 28/01/2025As we’ve seen repeatedly since 2015, the US media & political leadership are wholly incapable of adequately handling creeping authoritarianism. Normalizing at every turn, taking the “high” road, engaging in pathological bothsidesism. They continue believing it couldn’t happen here. It’s happening. 37518
Reposted by Natasha WarikooLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 28/01/2025@victorerikray.bsky.social has a new piece in @theemancipator.org! "Couching bigotry in concern about “qualifications” (which only seems to apply to non-White people) is just the socially acceptable way to launder racist disdain." theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...theemancipator.orgEliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationistNew segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity. 04120
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Anticipatory obedience in action. If they're not willing to resist, I really hope other universities will at the very least resist the urge to comply before they are even required to. 000
Reposted by Natasha WarikooAdam Harris @adamhsays.com · 23/01/2025the idea that affirmative action was ever about getting those who are "undeserving" into an institution or position has always been a racist lie. the root of the matter has always been, as Justice Blackmun wrote in Bakke, "among the qualified, how does one choose?" 12112
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Just tuning into clips of this hearing. Chilling to think Hegseth's background, and his refusal to answer questions, don't automatically unqualify him. Chilling. 010
Reposted by Natasha WarikooContexts Magazine @contexts.org · 09/01/2025Once again, Trump takes on “That Tiny, Tiny Little Fish,” blaming Delta Smelt protections for water shortages in fighting the #LAFires. Sociologist @calebscoville.bsky.social wrote about the political coherence behind such fishy rhetoric back in Sept: contexts.org/blog/tiny-little-fish/ 0146
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Seeing the snowy pics from all over the east coast makes me so jealous sitting here in Cambridge, where all we got was cold air! 000
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Last from the archive-I was not misremembering my pay as a teacher 25 years ago--37K to teach in NYC! From what I can tell that has more than doubled today-not nearly enough, but better than before. Thank goodness for unions. 010
Reposted by Natasha WarikooAnna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Look out 👀 Sociology of Education the ASA journal is on BlueSky! We will be up and running in the new year! @soceducation.bsky.social 03110
Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024@wbur.org this is tragic! Radio Boston has for years been the perfect mix of in-depth coverage of timely issues and general-interest stories, in-between news-news and podcasts. I will miss it! 020