Tyler Derreth

@johnshopkins faculty. Associate Director @jhusource. Baltimore. University-community partnerships. HIED teaching and learning. Critical whiteness.

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

@TyCMcNamee @AERADiv_J Amazing! Congrats!

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

Really so honored to have Dr. Johnson as a colleague. This thread is evidence of a big reason why. Couldn’t agree more.

[Renee M. Johnson, PhD, MPH @renee_m_johnson]

I know lots of people (and a well-funded movement) are against DEI work these days, but - trust me - you want to send your children to a school with a strong DEI infrastructure that includes people who are really doing the work. No matter who you are.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

[Caitlyn Yaede (she/her) @caitlyn_yaede]

The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –

I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.

Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

Gonna walk around tomorrow and look for Artscape. The weather forecast is telling me it should instantaneously materialize once the heat index hits 100

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

@royeljohnson Congrats!!

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The argument that white folks are falling back on about how Roberts said race can still be mentioned in a college essay is annoying me for a number of reasons.
Particularly: Why should a Black student have to WASTE SPACE explaining "how racism works" to a white admissions officer

[L.Baber @DocZo]

Derrick Bell (2003). Diversity's distractions. Columbia Law Review issue 103, p. 1622.

[and I wrote a little about in as well - Examining post-racial ideology in higher education. Teachers College Record, 117(14), 5-26.]

[aderson francois 🇭🇹 14th Amendment Baby @abfrancois]

8/8 One more point: back in 1978, Justice Marshall warned in Bakke that the diversity rationale was the wrong foundation upon which to ground affirmative action. He argued affirmative action should be the start of an an honest accounting of the legacy of slavery. He was right

[L.Baber @DocZo]

As Bell noted in 2003, once affirmative action arguments moved away from a corrective action for racial equity and towards a cost-benefit analysis for diversity, the courts would eventually decide the perceived costs were too much...didn't even get the 25 years O'Conner promised.

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

@AliWatts13 That’s exciting! We should coordinate another east coast meet up with the PSU crew while you’re in the time zone.

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

@AliWatts13 Wait. East coast?!

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

SCOTUS inverts 14th amendment to strike down affirmative action. Now to see all the specific ways this decision is terrible

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

Perhaps the fiction writer I read most.

I always slow down reading McCarthy. He makes me want to linger. Reading is an experience of the macabre, elegiac, beautiful, awful wreck of humanity.

I’ll miss having new works and relish the ones we have.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, has died at 89. “All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a world of violence and outsiders. https://t.co/H1hxF3V8eA

[Tyler Derreth @drderreth]

Great morning read on a neighborhood that captures a lot of what to love and lament about Baltimore

[Ron Cassie @ron_cassie]

George R. Roberts, a free Black seaman and gunner on the Chasseur, the original "Pride of Baltimore," was a hero of the War of 1812. His service was not unique, however. It’s estimated 20 percent of the War of 1812 privateers were African American.
https://t.co/ubU5nF8lR8

[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @JohnsHopkinsSPH]

Children with asthma whose families participated in a Baltimore program that helped move them from high-poverty neighborhoods to low-poverty ones saw their disease get significantly better, according to a study published last week. https://t.co/6UeVXdstuy

[Lindsay Ballant @lindsayballant]

My designer/O’s fan/Lefty/Baltimore resident worlds are colliding, I see.

Not only are these uninspired and disappointing designs coming from a design powerhouse that has done way better, the entire promise of these jerseys let Baltimore’s enemies frame the terms of the debate.

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

“Poverty is an injury, a taking. Tens of millions of Americans do not end up poor by a mistake of history or personal conduct. Poverty persists because some wish and will it so.” — Matthew Desmond https://t.co/WKX14kKc8I