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I'm SO excited to share that my first book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, has finally made its debut! Much gratitude to Imani Perry Robin DG Kelley, Erica Edwards, and Faith Smith for such wonderful endorsements! Get your copy here w/ discount code CUP20: bit.ly/423YqU8

🧵1/ Can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations? In the Annals of American Association of Geographers, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark doi.org/10.1080/246944… [open access]

See you tonight at a gorgeous event for a powerful book: Maya J Berry’s Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred & the Black Corporeal Undercommons. Excited for D.P. is @dpurifoy.bsky.social a.randolph is baldwinvidal@bsky Petal Samuel, Tanya Shields & Renée Alexander Craft to engage! Duke University Press epiloguebooksch

Thankful to Professor Culture Professor for this invitation. Earth Day - online - webinar! 🌍

What do sesame seeds tell us about the environmental histories of the African Diaspora? How does a historian know where to start? It’s all a question of process. Check out my new essay, "Sesame Plots: Diaspora in twenty-one openings." sciencehistory.org/stories/magazi…

“Today’s sun won’t bring harm. The plants in the pots will arrange themselves for a gentle visitor. It will be bright enough to help mothers to dry their laundry quickly, and cool enough for the children to play all day. Today’s sun will not be harsh ...” theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

"[A] veritable paradigm earthquake.... Jarvis C. McInnis recasts Tuskegee as an Atlantic experiment in turning the carceral landscape of the plantation into an engine of Black economic, social, and cultural development." -- Robin D. G. Kelley bit.ly/423YqU8 @columbiaup

We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan with Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EST). This workshop will among other things allow for reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it, and how we apply it to diff. contexts.

Wondering if American Association of Geographers LxG Specialty Group might be a home for you? Pues👌🏽

I am so proud to be in community with Dr. Teona Williams and our other collaborators. Her recent Being Together in Place helped to advance our black ecologies lab in ways too expansive to elaborate here but check out this cut by the phenomenal Jonathon Alexander

I have been receiving some messages asking for book recommendations on Kashmir. Here is a fantastic list compiled by Stand With Kashmir -- a diaspora-led group which seeks to raise awareness about the occupation. Check out their site for more resources. standwithkashmir.org/books-films-on…

We are very happy to have co-sponsored the resurrection of the Triangle-Area Asian American Students Conference (TAASCON) this year! Thank you to all of the artists, caterers, performers and speakers for the fantastic weekend. We look forward to next year's event!

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth! As we round out April, let’s take a look at some articles from our journal “GeoHumanities” that use forms of poetry as methods and formats in their work and research. View the full journal collection: buff.ly/i0ZgQoS

“Black Lifeworlds” by Alex Moulton: From challenges of racial discourses that relegate antiblackness to counter-environmental history on colonial ecological violence, these two poems collectively discuss interventions in topics of nature-society. buff.ly/AwXeWRq

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A few black agrarian histories in the United States.

I am very pleased that the American Association of Geographers co-signed a letter concerning the targeting of international scholars. “We deplore the atmosphere of fear and repression created by the harassment of foreign-born students and scholars by US government agencies.” historians.org/news/american-…

Are you looking for an American Association of Geographers service opportunity? The Qualitative Research Specialty Group is seeking nominations for board members in our annual elections. We especially encourage people who approach methods critically and with an SJ focus to apply. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The world used to be divided into military and civilian. Now the targets are terrorist ‘infrastructure’ and ‘networks’ - weasel words for sister, brother-in-law, nephew, niece. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

great thread on the shallowness of straightforward India-Israel comparisons, with excellent reading suggestions