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@drbrandi

NYC-based, Oakland-bred professor at Columbia U. Write books and articles about blackness, gentrification, aesthetics, architecture, capital(ism), and other things. branditsummers.com

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“By reassembling lost urban histories, the people involved, and their networks of relationship, we can see a layer of community organizing that has held a neighborhood and a city together.”

This is the ethos animating community archival work. Read more from @drbrandi.bsky.social & Moriah Ulinskas.

29.04.2025 23:58 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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.@criticalsoc.bsky.social just ran a great critical review forum on my 2022 book 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, including contributions from @juliango.bsky.social, @drbrandi.bsky.social, Alex Loftus, and Crystal Eddins, with a response from me.

Free PDF version in the thread.

07.04.2025 20:03 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
America Is Demolishing Antiracism Five Years After the George Floyd Uprisings Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some...

hammerandhope.org/forums/georg...

28.04.2025 15:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

14.04.2025 14:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The way Columbia students have held it down >>>>

02.04.2025 18:06 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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16.01.2025 00:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have someone who manages my property in the Bay. I really like him! I can DM.

16.12.2024 19:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

« Current explanations for the racial gaps in psychosis tend to zero in on the catalysts of discrimination, denigration and the insidious sense of helplessness — or “social defeat,” as psychiatry terms it — that racism can impose »

13.12.2024 12:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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America’s Hidden Racial Divide: A Mysterious Gap in Psychosis Rates Black Americans experience schizophrenia and related disorders at twice the rate of white Americans. It’s a disparity that has parallels in other cultures.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/m...

13.12.2024 12:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto Read the manifesto the media refused to publish

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

12.12.2024 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

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Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81 Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

10.12.2024 02:52 👍 9543 🔁 2520 💬 326 📌 915
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What the recall of progressives in the Bay Area says about Asian American views on crime Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County DA Pamela Price were ousted last week as many locals, including Asian Americans, shift toward tougher crime policies.

www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

14.11.2024 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This, Our Second Nadir - Boston Review We need a restoration of historical thinking.

www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...

14.11.2024 21:42 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

And just like that, there's 3!

The THIRD installment of "Field Notes: Repair" is out now. Read dispatches from dozens of scholars, designers, planners & activists who share their observations on the issues they find most relevant in practices of repair, maintenance & care.

A new series in Places:

14.11.2024 19:15 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1