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Willie Mack

@wmack3212.bsky.social
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Asst Prof Black Studies. Research on the carceral state, Black immigration, US history. Book under contract with UVA press on US/Haiti during the Cold War out 2026. Whoop whoop!

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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Please share high and wide! historianscommunism.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Call for Papers Special Issue: The Long-Life of Anticommunism
In his 1968 text The Anticommunist Impulse, Michael Parenti wrote that “Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.” He …
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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Something I wrote for @blackagendareport.bsky.social www.blackagendareport.com/trump-20-dar...
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Trump 2.0: A dark mirror into our past | Black Agenda Report
The Trump 2.0 administration is demonstrating the logical endpoint of a state project built on racial oppression. Trump’s actions show continuity with past history.
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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Academic friends, I have had an article accepted for publication by a very prominent journal. However, they won’t be able to publish it till 2027, most likely 2028. Should I wait or try another less prestigious journal?
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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The most recent No Kings march will hopefully be the last. A Democratic Party get out the vote effort is a show that obscures and obstructs the real work of organizing. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. www.blackagendareport.com/no-kings-and...
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No Kings and the Lure of Spectacle | Black Agenda Report
The most recent No Kings march will hopefully be the last. A Democratic Party get out the vote effort is a show that obscures and obstructs the real work of organizing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Willie Mack ( @wmack3212.bsky.social ) is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Something I recently wrote on immigrant restrictions, nativism, and anti-Blackness: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
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Haitians at the Border: The Nativist State and anti-Blackness
The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to e...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/02/2025
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism

Davarian Baldwin
Johanna Fernandez
Sarah Haley
Robin D.G. Kelley
Barbara Ransby
Robyn Spencer-Antoine

Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.
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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The headline doesn't do the article justice. Trump's admin is arguing that anything like Black Student Associations, Black History Month events, programs to retain minorities, etc are illegal and worthy of defunding the school. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
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Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
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Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Recent PhDs! Here's an excellent postdoc opportunity in a super cool city with some pretty awesome colleagues. krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
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Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced for 2025–2027 | The Chloe Center
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2025. Chloe...
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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ah, so nice to be back in Missouri….
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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Black history month was born in resistance. We don't need anyone's permission to do the research, to write to read, or to speak. Let's just keep going the work.
A photograph of Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of Negro History Week, which became Black History Month.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)
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a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
ALT: a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I wish they made this kind of determined effort to keep guns out of schools
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.
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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We are a failed state…
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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government. Put that in a headline. www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Yes, the women in the military is an important issue. But let’s not gloss over why he is being nominated; because he is willing to use the military against Trump’s domestic enemies. He will do what Trump tells him to.
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