Corey J. Miles

assistant professor | ethnographer of da black south | wrote vibe | Patricia’s son | ΚΑΨ

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

I once heard @tressiemcphd say that the best scholars are good storytellers. All of my favorite sociologists were ones who wrote the South. I wanted to follow in that tradition & use storytelling to bear witness on NC to use words honestly, beautifully .
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[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

@Slangdini Thank you 🙏🏾

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

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[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

You know you played bad when a white dude post your salary after the game

[Evan Sidery @esidery]

Chet Holmgren’s five-year, $239.3 million extension kicks in this summer for the Thunder:

2026-27: $41.3 million
2027-28: $44.6 million
2028-29: $47.9 million
2029-30: $51.2 million
2030-31: $54.5 million

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

I don’t care who better but if you were born late 80s and early 90s and saw lil Wayne progression, you have to respect it. It’s not even something you want to compare just enjoy the fact you were a witness.

[Lex @LexDiamonds__]

It’s really people who believe Lil Wayne is a better rapper than Prodigy because of their biases towards wordplay punchlines.

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

@theraggedwood I wish folks would just say this so we can have real conversations about the conditions in which we work

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

do academics even like research, reading, and thinking or just publishing

[Serafim Batzoglou @s_batzoglou]

@michaelbilleaux To be a successful PI in bio it usually (not always) requires writing 10-20 high profile papers a year, each one with ~80 citations. No bio PI reads each one of these citations cover to cover. That would be absurd.

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

@pnbphilosophy I agree with this. I do think the system we conduct research in doesn’t reward long-deep engagement. That thread still has me wondering do people enjoy the research process or is it just a means to an end. Or maybe I’m asking the wrong type of question.

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

@Jakey876757 True

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

so white Americans were so committed to injustice that it required activists to organize and stage an ideal scene for white Americans to see that segregation was wrong? This isn’t about Rosa Parks story being fake but white Americans inability to see injustice in the real world

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

We have literally been lied to about everything

Matt Walsh “The Rosa Parks story you were taught in school was fake too. This was not just some woman on her way home from work. Civil rights leaders thought Parks would make a sympathetic face for their lawsuit and then told her, a longtime NAACP volunteer, to create a situation where she'd be arrested.

This gets sold to the public as totally organic when actually it's playacting to create ideal conditions for a court case or scandal.

The iconic photo of Parks on the bus was staged months after the incident as part of a press campaign. (The photo is shown in the clip)

The white man, sitting behind her in the bus photo was a journalist, which you probably didn't know.”

Let’s fact check this. It’s 100% true

What Actually Happened on December 1, 1955

Rosa Parks was a longtime NAACP volunteer and secretary of the Montgomery chapter. She had been deeply involved in civil rights activism for years (including work on cases like the Recy Taylor rape and voter registration efforts).

She was not just a random tired seamstress on her way home from work who spontaneously refused to move. Local civil rights leaders had been looking for a strong test case to challenge bus segregation.

They even had people cast for the role before Rosa Parks. Earlier attempts include 15 year old Claudette Colvin were passed over because leaders felt Rosa Parks, a mature, respected, married woman with a spotless reputation, would be a more sympathetic plaintiff in court and to the public

The Iconic Photo was 100% staged

The famous photo was taken on December 21, 1956, this is over a year after her arrest and on the first day the buses were integrated after the Supreme Court ruling

It was deliberately staged by journalists, Look Magazine and UPI, for a press campaign to dramatize the victory

The white man sitting behind her is Nicholas Chriss, a UPI reporter, not a random angry passenger or segregationist

[Joel Embiid @JoelEmbiid]

ROUND 1 ✅
Boston, please be classy my friends! I still love and respect you!!

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[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

Y’all said football was harder to play than basketball. This wouldn’t even make sense in the NBA.

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

The Philadelphia Eagles drafted a 21 year old Nigerian who has never played football but stands 6’5”, 306 lbs with 6% body fat, a 39” vertical, a 10’10” broad jump that is 14 inches longer than any other defensive tackle at the HBCU combine, and a 4.63 40 yard dash

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

no more funny than analyzing survey data from people you have never had any interaction with and passing it off as objective knowledge while you claim to be an expert on said group

[Dilawar Karwan @RashmanTheHorse]

"Autoethnography" is the funniest genre of writing. "Dear diary" as an academic dissertation.

[Fred I. Lee @fredleept]

Looking at the "racial capitalism" debate and once again thanking my lucky stars that white leftists don't care about Asian American shit

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

As universities close departments & programs in the social sciences & the humanities, reactionary “leftists” are convinced that any theory focusing on race vis-à-vis capitalism is hegemonic in academia, which echoes the rhetoric & policy of conservatives restructuring Higher Ed.

[Dr. CBS @drcbs_]

A peculiar time to be launching a “left”attack on “Black Studies” and “racial capitalism.”

[African American Studies, Princeton @PrincetonAAS]

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[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

don't nobody hate the work that you do more than a white man who thinks he deserves your job

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

@msjoven 🙏🏾

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

New research dropped where I explore how black Americans emotionally deal with the contradiction in being a “free” citizen that’s constantly policed. I suggest that black slang isn’t simply about sounding cool but making sense of our complicated emotions.

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

@kandistmallett Emailed it to you