My article "‘Some Time We Have Trouble in Getting Mail. And Everything Else Here’: Black Women, Freedom Food and the US Postal System" is out now in a special issue of Gender & History!
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@JeffSharlet@dartmouth Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.
Next, we celebrate @PamNWalker, the 2023 Letitia Woods Brown Article Award winner! Walker wins for ‘‘'Some Time We Have Trouble in Getting Mail. And Everything Else Here’: Black Women, Freedom Food and the US Postal System," published in @GenderHistory!
Affirmative action 🧵:
Yesterday I had to look up my endocrinologist’s office info to get a referral.
I happened upon the fact that she graduated Columbia 5 years after I did. Which meant I was part of the team that admitted her, a team that regularly acted affirmatively.
So thrilled to have this exhibit online! It commemorates the centennial of the 19th amendment by putting suffrage in broader context of women's collective action, widely construed, 1820-2020. We opened <2 weeks before lockdown...so having it available digitally is 🥹
At noon on Wednesday, June 7, Reena Evers-Everette, will present "The Evers Archives: Voices, Justice, Legacies" with T. Dionne Bailey, Bobby J. Smith II, and Pamela N. Walker. #HistoryIsLunch is sponsored by the Community Foundation @formississippi.
2/Many of us who teach at public universities are facing a wave of harmful legislation aimed at ending academic freedom, campus inclusiveness, and the freedom for our students to decide what and how they learn. Here is what we are up against in #TX:
🧵1/ Colleges & unis have always been sites where the battles over history, freedom of expression, & inclusivity are fought. The classroom and/or college as a contested space is not new, but the fight over WHO gets to be there & WHAT students get 2 learn shifts...
For the first time in the history of Rutgers University, all three faculty, grad, EOF, and postdoc unions have voted to go on strike. Monday morning, we are ON STRIKE. See you on the picket line. #RUOnStrike
ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ACLS Fellowships. This year, the program will award more than $3.8 million in research support to 60 scholars: https://t.co/W9HqEx1Hzd
Penn State is searching for an Assistant professor in rural poverty and related including but not limited to social stratification, racial and ethnic disparities, spatial or regional inequality, and/or social policy.
Check it out! https://t.co/eRuTd7mtDM