@profhajaryazdiha
Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
New in Big Data & Society 🗞️
Alejandra Regla-Vargas, AJ Alvero, and Hajar Yazdiha analyze anti-Asian hate and counter-hate on social media during COVID-19, showing how hate and resistance enact racial projects through shifting frames.
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New work with Alejandra Regla-Vargas and @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social!!
An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public.
It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests.
What else is the regime hiding from us?
Join us next Friday!!!
Been tracking the college football playoff with Gene Hackman movies
As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
Thank you Nessa! 🙏
Thank you friend!! 🙏
Thank you!!
Thank you!! I hope students find it helpful! 🙏
⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:
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Check out this new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History focused on "Immigration and Citizenship" edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social:
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
SAME. We all felt that catharsis.
Yes. But after that one ep when Whitney took her by the shoulders, told her to put down her plant, and stop texting Jarebear for a minute to prioritize her daughter, and she still remained dead in the eyes (and brain?), I knew all hope was lost for that woman. Her poor kid.
USC IS OUT!
Let me tell y'all, the emergency meetings that got called yesterday and today...
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Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr...
We have the same dad.
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
“Fuck them kids.”
That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Speaking as someone with experience: stuff like this reveals both a) how pissed off sources are and b) who the respected reporters are among people who know their stuff, who may not be at the outlets you expect!!
📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.
In the authoritarian playbook, rewriting collective memory is just this critical strategy for controlling the masses," Hajar Yazdiha..."
#Pinks
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"A CLASP study from 2018 found that children as young as 3 experienced behavioral changes–like frequent crying, separation anxiety, and sleep problems–due to the loss of a parent or the fear of losing a parent. www.clasp.org/publications...
There's a moment in the Trump regime's America 250 propaganda that takes a swipe at the 1619 Project as "revisionist history."
Well, about that ...
CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...