Nancy Dowd

UF law professor emeritus; author with Margaret Beale Spencer of Radical Brown (Harvard 2024); Reimagining Equality (NYU Press 2018); race and gender justice

[Eddie S. Glaude Jr. @esglaude]

https://t.co/IylP5eDec2

[Nancy Dowd @dowd_nancy]

Came across this tonight, so fitting:

“Revenge is the poor delight of little minds.” Juvenal

[Nancy Dowd @dowd_nancy]

And she blows us away once again. Looking forward to reading it!

[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

Writing my memoir, THE MIXED MARRIAGE PROJECT, drew me to reckon with what it meant to be a Black girl with a white father and to celebrate both my extraordinary parents who taught me the true meaning of love. #memoir #TheMixedMarriageProject https://t.co/JzbBcmLUcs

[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

Writing my memoir, THE MIXED MARRIAGE PROJECT, drew me to reckon with what it meant to be a Black girl with a white father and to celebrate both my extraordinary parents who taught me the true meaning of love. #memoir #TheMixedMarriageProject https://t.co/JzbBcmLUcs

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

not a joke

[EBONY @EBONY]

Black History Month, forever.

[LeVar Burton @levarburton]

I am so grateful this was sent to me this morning. #bydhttmwfi

[Nancy Dowd @dowd_nancy]

https://t.co/9hmXokWiTx via @NYTOpinion

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

This is so good. We want freedom. Kamala has a to do list. Let’s keep our heads up high and encourage everyone to Get Out and Vote!

[Nancy Dowd @dowd_nancy]

Vindication! Outstanding and principled and the people speak!

[Phillip Jackson @phillej_]

New: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Orlando's top prosecutor just over a year ago. Tonight, she was reelected back into her seat as State's Attorney. https://t.co/WiFTRApETq

[Eddie S. Glaude Jr. @esglaude]

Thought of this quotation as I read the posts by my colleague ⁦@McCormickProf⁩ about friendship and political differences.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This video is incredible.

Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

104 years ago on November 2-3, during Election Day in 1920, the single bloodiest day in modern America political history happened, The Ocoee Massacre.

A black man attempted to vote & the Ku Klux Klan responded with rampage that led to the exile/death of every black person that lived there

—The dark day in Florida's history escalated after one Black citizen tried to exercise his right to vote at a polling location but was turned away on Election Day.

Mose Norman, who had been part of the voter registration drive in Orange County, decided to vote in the national election on November 2. When he attempted to do so, twice, he was turned away from the polls.
When Norman was driven away the second time, a white mob, then numbering over 100 men, decided to hunt him down. Concluding he had taken refuge in the home of another local Black resident, Julius “July” Perry, they rushed Perry’s home hoping to capture both men there. Norman escaped and was never found while Perry defended his home, killing two white men, Elmer McDaniels and Leo Borgard, who tried to enter through the back door. The mob called for reinforcements from Orlando and surrounding Orange County. Eventually they caught and killed Perry and hung his dead body from a telephone post by the highway from Ocoee to Orlando to intimidate other potential Black voters. Perry’s wife, Estelle Perry, and their daughter were wounded during the attack on the Perry home. They were sent to Tampa by local law enforcement officers.
The mob then turned on the Black community of Ocoee.
Homes and properties of Black families were scorched, burnt to the ground. At least four Black individuals were confirmed killed -- one of which was lynched, his body hanging from a tree limb for all to see.

On June 21, 2019, a historical marker honoring July Perry and others killed in the massacre was placed in Heritage Square outside the Orange County Regional History Center.
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bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”

[Steven Walker @swalker_7]

Today’s @HeraldTribune front page, ft. my reporting on New College of Florida and the discarding of hundreds of books — including those from the student-run Gender and Diversity Center.

[Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads and Bluesky) @JillWineBanks]

Support for @KamalaHarris is international.

[Harvard Education Press @Harvard_Ed_Pub]

RADICAL BROWN by Margaret Beale Spencer and @dowd_nancy was included on a list titled, "Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars," which was published by @JBHEdotcom! See the full list here: https://t.co/PldvaciHFb

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Love this.