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You're the best! You make everything we do more sophisticated and better. I am so happy we did this together.
Black History Month!
Check out this special feature that I co-edited with brilliant @nahir.bsky.social: Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race” | PMLA | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4anHgVM .
Yesterday Benito was us.
It was amazing! The show was amazing! Talking to my students about it was amazing! I am overwhelmed with emotion.
I gave them context and answered questions, but they guided the conversation. They noted the detail and care, the community themes, and the earnestness of the show.
They mentioned that the sugarcane were people dressed as sugarcane. And I just thought, I bet those sugar canes were Puerto Rican. 2/
Today, I told my students that as a resident Puerto Rican (and expert), we would watch Benito's Bowl and go over it with a critical lens, and that I would answer all their questions.
We watched the show. They took notes, and they did most of the talking--mentioning all the things they noticed.
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Teaching 1001 Nights, I pointed out to my students that it is one of the most radically feminist texts of that time period
I also ask why every semester I get 1 - 3 essays saying 1001 nights is sexist, but I don't get similar essays about Gilgamesh or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
I got silence
AMEN. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Lol! Yes!
It was completely spontaneous in my part. Zero regrets 🤣
🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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I peaked as a teacher on week 2 of the semester! 🤣😂
In a discussion of the relationship btw Gilgamesh and Enkidu:
Me: They meet by fighting each other, and their relationship turns to one of deep love. What is the modern equivalent? Oh, I know. Have you heard of Heated Rivalry?
Students: screamed, laughed, went red ... in unison!
“I don’t need to love a field that fails to love me. I don’t need white supremacy to tell
me my worth.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
Recognizing the Stranger demands that our path to liberation never forgets the human condition, the art we create, and the place of Palestine in our collective struggle. Isabella Hammad is an award winning British-Palestinian author. Her other books include Enter the Ghost and The Parisians
The next book in our "MfP Recommended Read" series is Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative" (Black Cat 2024). Recognizing the Stranger argues for the world of literature as a venue for thinking through the political fights of our time.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the center top, MfP Recommended Read. On the center bottom the book cover of Areej Sabbagh-Khoury's Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the left top, Why MfP Recommends It. On the left center, the book cover of Areej Sabbagh-Khoury's Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. On the right, the following bullet points: -Examines how Zionist settlers acquired and used land alongside and eventually in replacement of Indigenous Palestinians. -Illustrates that, while the Nakba was a violet event of displacement, it roots lie in policies of landholding under the British Mandate. -Challenges the belief that "Left" or "Liberal" Zionism was not complicit in Palestinian displacement. -Explores how the expansion of Zionist settlement, Left Zionism, and the Nakba are represented in historical memory.
The next book in our recommended reads is Colonizing Palestine by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury which shows how, in the decades before the Nakba of 1948, Zionists settlements, including "left-wing kibbutzim," were integral to the slow displacement of Palestinians.
This year I was lucky enough to get to choose to do mostly things that aligned with my beliefs and values. I’m grateful, because the year was a doozy in all other ways. Here are a few I’m most proud of:
The white backlash that is materially devastating democracy, marginalized people, and the planet is all b/c of symbolic gains. As Juliet Hooker writes, white grievance leads to real grief for the rest of us (but also for themselves in the end, because there is only one world).
“As I sat I my chateau in France and spent twenty minutes writing for one of the premier magazines in the world, where I have highly remunerated lifetime employment, I thought about the people being mean to me online and wondered … is this discrimination? I think it is.”
Also: glass and china can shatter in your hand just as badly as they shatter on the floor, but the floor doesn't have to go to the ER.
Since a friend's permanent injury reflexively catching a teacup, I have been trying to train myself NOT to catch things I drop doing dishes (still working on it).
I have a Quinceañere!
#MedievalSky #AcademicSky
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the center top, From the Publisher. On the center bottom it reads: This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archeological evidence, Masalha shows how Palestine's multicultural past has been distorted and mythologized by Biblical lore and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In the process, Masalha reveals that the concept of Palestine, contrary to accepted belief, is not a modern invention to one constructed in opposition to Israel, but rooted firmly in ancient past. Palestine represents the authoritative account of the country's history.
Palestine's history has evolved alongside the many peoples who lived in, moved through, and visited Palestine.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the center top, MfP Recommended Read. On the center middle, book cover of Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the top left, MfP Recommended Read. On the bottom left, book cover of Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. On the right five bullet points: 1. Provides overview of Palestinian history from the Bronze Age to the Present. 2. Demonstrates that Palestine has a long history that predates modern nationalisms. 3. Challenges the Zionist narrative that Palestine never existed or is a Western invention. 4. The chapter on Medieval Palestine are perfect for introducing Palestine to the Medieval Studies classroom. 5. Contrasts Palestine's pluralistic history to Zionism as a settler-colonial movement.
The next book in our "MfP Recommended Read" series is Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. This fast-paced history moves from the bronze age to the present to demonstrate that Palestine has always existed.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern with an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the left side an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. On the right side 4 bullets points that say: 1. One of the first major works in English written by a leading Palestinian American intellectual. 2. Analyzes Palestinian displacement, resistance, and self-determination. 3. Explains the nature of Zionism "from the standpoint of its victims." 4. Examines the relationship between Zionism, Western liberalism, and imperialism.
The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
image of a wooden floor board with home made stickers. The stickers include the flag of Palestine with the words Free Palestine, a half circle watermelon, a circle with half the circle as the Palestinian flag and half the circle a watermelon.
Let's build pressure AND community. Let's start with stickers!
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
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We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.
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