WashU faculty Adrienne Davis delivers a stinging rebuke to the "humanities report" commissioned and published by our own chancellor

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 5d ago

Opinion | On Proper Objects of Study A recent report on the humanities criticizes the distortion of scholarship in the service of political goals. Other disciplines would like a word. By Adrienne D. Davis: https://bit.ly/4j0lcoN #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Publishing this month: BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO offers a rich exploration Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their work influenced modern Black life. buff.ly/cWYxtxX

Well this looks outstanding.

Chris Dingwall@chrisdingwall.bsky.social · last mo.

BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Black Designers in Chicago

A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life.   In twentieth-century Chicago, generati...

press.uchicago.edu

If you are employed as a teacher, researcher, graduate student, or in a related professional appointment at a college or university, you can support this work (and protect your own job) by joining the AAUP: www.aaup.org/join-aaup

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last mo.

“The rule is likely to face a legal challenge from the American Association of University Professors, one senior official said. The A.A.U.P., which advocates academic freedom, tenure protections and shared campus governance, led a successful lawsuit against the Trump administration last year”

BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Black Designers in Chicago

A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life.   In twentieth-century Chicago, generati...

press.uchicago.edu

In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!

Wise advice from Hungary: The only way university leaders have a chance against Trump is forming a broad alliance with other institutions and enlisting "American families, employers, unions," + more. Going it alone won't work. Hiding and appeasing (duck and cover) won't stop systematic "vandalism."

Mike Copeland has been delivering mail in Detroit for the past 45 years. 📸 credit: Sam Robinson

Spent the afternoon with the papers of the Midwest Committee to Protect the Foreign Born, part of a national network fighting political deportations during the height of the Cold War. These "Know Your Rights" cards--similar to those circulating today--remind us that the fight has been a long one

We call for the immediate release of former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Kahlil, a legal permanent resident of the US. His abduction is an assault not only on basic immigration law but on our 1st Amendment protections of freedom of speech & assembly. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

We're still soliciting applications for this position as tenured associate professor of History / associate director of UMass' Slavery North initiative 🗃️ careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

History circular nature of, 26 don’t learn from it, doomed to repeat it, 35-7 Faulkner cliché that “past is never dead, it’s not even past,” 111-114 Jerry Lewis theory of, 215

Very excited to share some new work at the African American History seminar at MHS on March 21. The paper is about Chicago-based textile designer Robert E. Paige, the history behind his remarkable Dakkabar Collection for Sears (1973-1974), and interior decoration in the Black Arts Movement

Massachusetts Historical Society@mhs1791.bsky.social · 2y ago

The next program in our #AfricanAmericanHistory Series takes place on Tue, 18 Mar, at 5p (E) and features @chrisdingwall.bsky.social's "The Dakkabar Connection: Robert E. Paige & the Global Crafts of the Black Arts Movement." Online program only. Register here: www.masshist.org/events/dakka...

Very excited to share some new work at the African American History seminar at MHS on March 21. The paper is about Chicago-based textile designer Robert E. Paige, the history behind his remarkable Dakkabar Collection for Sears (1973-1974), and interior decoration in the Black Arts Movement

Massachusetts Historical Society@mhs1791.bsky.social · 2y ago

The next program in our #AfricanAmericanHistory Series takes place on Tue, 18 Mar, at 5p (E) and features @chrisdingwall.bsky.social's "The Dakkabar Connection: Robert E. Paige & the Global Crafts of the Black Arts Movement." Online program only. Register here: www.masshist.org/events/dakka...

#polyglot #LangSky

Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cool to learn about Paw Paw French (Illinois Country French or Missouri French). It is a French dialect spoken in the midwest that also includes some English, Native American, and West African words per the linguist in this video. The interviews are great. youtu.be/3icbQzaeUDk?...

remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

Jake Wittich@jakewittich.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher. "Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."

one thing this demonstrates is the extent to which racial, gender, and sexual discrimination has been an important cause and substance of worker organizing, rather than (as is too often claimed) some kind of HR-driven distraction

JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social · 2y ago

This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:

The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

D.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command.

newyorker.com

This also describes libraries, except they don’t run on plagiarism and potable water

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have to admit that I've been surprised at the level of hate at AI LLMs. There is finally a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education to self learn, anywhere , anytime. To get answers to questions, (even if sometimes wrong) , that they would otherwise never have access to

Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive conservation workshop for HBCU students! In an intensive week-long workshop, students learn photograph conservation and engage with the Archive. July 13–18, 2025, in Chicago. Application deadline: Feb 21. www.getty.edu/projects/con... #archives #BlackHistory

Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org

Labor for Higher Education

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All the right wing populist op-ed hacks in Canada have been fronting for Poilievre for 2+ years but Trump’s 51st State threats have put them on the spot: they secretly want Canada to become part of the States but only so they personally can get hired to work there, impossible for em any other way

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!