DJFerman-Leon

Kansas City-raised |
Afro-Indigenous cimarron by way of Veracruz 🤎🖤
Postdoctoral fellow @ Bryn Mawr College

[Urban Affairs Association @UAAnews]

NEW JRE #ARTICLE: The unevenness of welcoming: Immigrant inclusion and anti-Blackness in Dayton, Ohio https://t.co/pXRvxBmVMS

[DJFerman-Leon @DJFermanLeon]

It means so much to have my first article published in Transforming Anthropology 🥲🫶🏾

[Transforming Anthro @TransformAnthro]

Check out Daniel Ferman-Leon’s new article featured in our Spring 2026 TA issue.

#TranformingAnthropology #blackgeographies #antiblackness #financialization

[Transforming Anthro @TransformAnthro]

Check out Daniel Ferman-Leon’s new article featured in our Spring 2026 TA issue.

#TranformingAnthropology #blackgeographies #antiblackness #financialization

[Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice @ISGRJRutgers]

Scholar, activist, storyteller, & groundbreaking thinker – W.E.B Du Bois helped shape the fight for civil rights and the way we understand identity and justice in America.

“American Masters—W.E.B Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause” premieres TOMORROW, May 19 at 9/8c on @PBS.

[Transforming Anthro @TransformAnthro]

TA Vol. 34 No. 1 is now available! Read Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson’s full editorial by following the link in our bio!

[jayson m porter @RogueChieftan]

The second lung of the world is on fire. I met with a frontline organizer from the Congo yesterday, and I’m still shaking. We need to talk more about what’s happening in the Congolese forests.

[pjlo @BlackCatrachoBK]

The Dismantling of Black Studies https://t.co/P1eE53tQ9Z

[DJFerman-Leon @DJFermanLeon]

@AkiraDrake 🔥🔥 appreciate u!

[DJFerman-Leon @DJFermanLeon]

🥳 my new article on financialization and spatialized anti-Blackness just dropped in the new issue of Transforming Anthro! big shoutout to the editors and anonymous reviewers 🙏🏽

[Transforming Anthro @TransformAnthro]

Our spring issue is out now! With articles on Black geographies and ecological care, educational reform, institutional exclusion, and residential segregation, this issue moves across sites of US Empire while insisting on conjuring geographies of our own.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Struggling through the work is extremely important—more important to me than publishing it.” —Toni Morrison https://t.co/CRvUzjd2BM

[Jaz Hays @JazHays]

That is obscenely expensive. Comparable to the cost of Yankee stadium, which of course was built in the most expensive city in america.

And the only reason it's so expensive is because taxpayers are footing the bill.

[Tyrique🍊 @tyorrique]

“If the condemned of the earth do not understand their pasts and know the responsibilities that lie upon them in the future, all on the earth will be condemned. That is the kind of world we live in.” C. L. R James - From Dubois to Fanon

[Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr College @BMCAfricana]

Historicizing and Living Everyday Black Studies: Preserving Histories and Charting Futures https://t.co/lr1gaBIVvO

[Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity @CRE2_WashU]

Congratulations to CRE² postdoctoral fellow Sophia Monegro whose article has won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2026 Maria Stewart Article Prize for the best journal article published in Global Black Thought.
https://t.co/l1LP0LCflY

[The Black Studies Podcast @blstpodcast]

Great conversation with Willie J. Wright, in conversation about urban studies, Black geographies, and Black Studies as life studies. Listen here or on most streams:
https://t.co/9vKtkMqUIE

[The Black Agenda Review @AgendaReview]

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon

June Jordan

1982 https://t.co/8zJOgMP2Le

[American Anthropologist @AmAnthroJournal]

New article alert! Check out Matthew C. Reilly's "An Archaeology of Return: Implications for African Diasporic Archaeologies." #Anthropology #Archaeology

https://t.co/aTOtKSNBax

[the meji. @mejitwo]

Petition to change "et al." to "and gang" in academia

[Left of Black @LeftOfBlack]

How Raoul Peck Became a Cinematic Griot | Lovia Gyarkye

The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.
https://t.co/YqrcZ2uf71 | @HammerandHope

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

The Erasure of Black Studies | Jafari S. Allen

A report from the undoing of a field
https://t.co/jhtcoaRfev | @chronicle