Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD

political scientist. writer. ethnographer. professor. speaker. podcaster. Black feminist + disability justice educator. Detroiter.

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

I am proud to announce my book, Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life, is forthcoming from @TempleUnivPress in September 2024!

Pre-orders are now open! 📚

https://t.co/dpzoB8Abpm

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

@zorafuture That is incredible 😍

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

What did it take to find the same color blue in fabric, floor paint, lighting, jersey material, and who knows what else?! That’s impossibly hard to do! Even if you just dye everything yourself.

I salute you anonymous sports color genius!

#ESPN #NBAFinals2025 #OKCThunder

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

Also, whoever designed the color palette for the #OKCThunder stadium lights, uniforms, fan t-shirts and even the paint on the basketball court, did an AMAZING job.

#ESPN #NBAFinals2025

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

That person clearly worked HARD.

The way the uniforms create a kind of camouflage/optical illusion, where the OKC uniforms blend in with the court and the fans all around them, is genius! I mean WOW.

#OKCThunder

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

Thank you @BrownPhDGirl and @ERSjournal for the review 🙏🏾.

Free copies of Redefining the Political can be downloaded wherever you get your ebooks! #OpenAccess

[Ethnic and Racial Studies @ERSjournal]

@tandfhss In Redefining the Political, Alex J. Moffett-Bateau challenges mainstream views of politics by centering the everyday political lives of Black women in Chicago public housing. Review by Nadia Brown: https://t.co/whoBUmr1jf

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

@Blackamazon You got some nerve looking that fine!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

@LaFemme_Negrita @najah3073 @TempleUnivPress Thank you so much! 🙏🏾

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

I am proud to announce my book, Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life, is forthcoming from @TempleUnivPress in September 2024!

Pre-orders are now open! 📚

https://t.co/dpzoB8Abpm

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

Here is a wild fun fact…. I am making this announcement from my hospital bed, on my 50th day in the hospital due to #Lupus complications…

But REGARDLESS of what’s going on with my body, these stories will be told… and for that I will always be grateful 🙏🏾.

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

I began work on this project in 2010. I re-wrote this book countless times.

Let me tell you, getting a theory based ethnography about Black women published (in political science!), was not easy.

Me and rejection became close personal friends LOL.

But it has been so worth it!

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

Hey folks,

Do any social science faculty have recommendations for methods books that approach auto-ethnography from a rigorous empirical perspective?

#methods
#qualitativemethods
#ethnography
#autoethnography
#empiricalresearch
#politicalscience
#socialsciences

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

From a purely political science standpoint, I can’t remind folks enough that white women in the U.S. (or globally for that matter) don’t tend to see themselves as a collective, let alone a socio-political community.

So from that standpoint, collective learning isn’t possible.

[Shay Stewart Bouley @blackgirlinmain]

Have WW as a collective learned anything since 2016?

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

“It’s time for a jailbreak of the imagination in order to make the impossible possible.”

- Mariame Kaba, “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice.”

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

Political work is work that expands the political imagination of whoever you are around.

In actively teaching others (without judgement) about this political moment, you seed the ground for a future of unseen political possibility.

[The Nation @thenation]

Police violence at CCNY was more intense than at Columbia. There are reports of numerous students and faculty being tasered and pepper-sprayed by police on the Harlem campus. Two students had their teeth smashed and one undergraduate’s ankle was broken.
https://t.co/JeE5xPeFYp

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

@DrBWillingham Pretty much….

[Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.) @NairYasmin]

Today's DP, relevant for this time of the year: "On Graduation."
"There is no useless knowledge, and the world will make space for you and you will make it make space for you, even if you sometimes have to tap a window open or kick a door down."
https://t.co/tmO8gYF6B8

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

@DRollins_ I think it used to be an academic standard in certain disciplines? But when I say “used to be,” I mean like pre-2000’s when I was a kid in Detroit 😵‍💫.

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

- Zora Neale Hurston

#academic
#academicwriting
#research
#anthropology
#writing
#interviewing
#Blackwomen

[Alex J. Moffett-Bateau, PhD @AlexMBateau]

“It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.”

- Zora Neale Hurston

#academic
#academicwriting
#writing
#anthropology
#Blackwomen
#research