Daedalus journal asked for an essay looking at the uses & misuses of the concept of race in African & Middle Eastern Studies: amacad.org/daedalus/expor…

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

RIP Professor Ken Brown - pioneering social anthropologist, bon vivant, scholar of North Africa, taught at the University of Manchester; in the early 1990s, he founded & edited the magazine Méditerranéennes. He also wrote a wonderful book about the city of Salé:

Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor's race politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

Alexi Lalas blames U.S. Soccer’s struggles on ‘diversity’ on3.com/pro/news/alexi…

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day. bostonreview.net/articles/the-l…

As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…

Always happy to be labeled disaffected - esp by the NYT. Here we are w/ councilwoman Carmen de la Rosa & Angie Fernandez, director of Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights. (I met Zohran when he was 10, when I was his Dad’s student — he was joyous & exuberant then!)

As hysterical reaction to Mamdani's rise demonstrates: Prejudice toward Muslims is highest among all religious and ethnic groups brookings.edu/articles/preju…

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Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm meidasplus.com/p/texas-offici…

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas. bostonreview.net/articles/when-…

Wow Justin Brannan: "I’ve negotiated 4 balanced, on-time, colossal city budgets and I can tell you this: Zohran’s ideas aren’t crazy, they’re necessary. His plans aren’t radical but required. Because NYC will never survive as a playground for the rich." cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025/0…

Alice Coltrane on harp feels less like a performance and more like a portal to a beautiful and mysterious world…

Happy 100 year birthday to one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, Frantz Fanon. I always love reading how folks interpreted Fanon in real time—as opposed to the appropriated nonsense we get today at times 🥴.

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