Annette Joseph-Gabriel
@annettejosephg.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ Duke | Senior Editor of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International (SUNY Press) | Author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire http://annettejosephgabriel.com/
Two new *very exciting* #handsoff events came in today: American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Send them some love tonight, y'all. And in case you hadn't zoomed out on the map, let me do it for you, because multiple cities in Portugal, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany are showing up.
Despite it all, working on proofs this morning. Shirley Graham Du Bois has 2 words for fascists 🖕🏿
“The university is not in crisis. For its active collusion with the designs of racial capitalism and empire, it is the crisis.”
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · last yr.A devastating assessment of the state of Columbia offered by one of their own, Shana L. Redmond
Has anyone tried telling universities that the current administration is a graduate student union in disguise? I’ll bet they get their fight back real quick 👀
Première étape de notre programme de printemps, l’université Tulane de La Nouvelle-Orléans et le colloque "Black Internationalism in Translation and the Cartographies of Emancipation". Avec Brent Hayes Edwards @annettejosephg.bsky.social @mamefatouniang.bsky.social @chelseastieber.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
I am a judge for this year’s National Book Awards! Excited to see other familiar faces on this panel. With the current state of the world, spending this summer reading excellent books will feel like slow dancing in a burning room. Looking forward…
There will be no tipping point. No rock bottom. No policy heinous enough, no egg prices high enough to make them renounce their hate. There will be neither regret nor reckoning, just our work daily and diligently for better, for justice.
There are people who voted for all this and are now suffering consequences. Please know that if they could do it all over again…they would vote exactly the same way. Craft your calls for “empathy”accordingly.
If you live in the triangle area this is a good time to get your produce locally and support Black farmers www.tallgrassnc.com
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Solidarity. AND Wish more people had stood up for the gasping canary in the coal mine aka the Humanities.
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
TMRW! 17:30 GMT (12:30 ET, 9:30 PT) -in person & via Zoom I'll be participating in this roundtable discussion re: "The Future of French Global History" @ihr.bsky.social w/Sarah Dunstan, Martin Evans, @annettejosephg.bsky.social, Ludivine Broch & Julian Jackson. www.history.ac.uk/events/round...
Roundtable: The Future of French Global History
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historian and scholar friends (I forget the hashtag for this lol): What are some good secondary sources analyzing racial capitalism/industrialization and Native American removal in the 19th century? please repost! thanks in advance!
“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.” ~Frantz Fanon
Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last yr.Yeah a lot of Europeans are acting as if they’re not drowning migrants off the shore of their countries right now.
🗃️ Hello, hi. The sky is falling. Also, can anyone please help me make out this text? It is from a letter written by a boy in an orphanage in Egypt in 1883. Thank you in advance
Watching an empire tear itself apart in real time and it’s a lot uglier than I imagined
🗃️ #skystorians Amidst all the terribleness, I offer a sincere thank you for putting me on to some resources on childhood in 19th.-century Sierra Leone. I pulled this out of the rabbit hole: a child’s drawing on the wall of a house showing children shooing away birds from the rice farm ❤️
@annettejosephg.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & I are seeking submissions for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "Children & Childhood in the French-Speaking World." We are esp interested in contributions that deal with race, empire, and colonialism. CFP here: bit.ly/3EIeVvE
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A kompa cover of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing is not a thing I knew I needed until I heard it
“In this sense, the oft-noted discursive silence on the topic of slavery in Africa should not be seen as evidence of forgetting or denial, but rather as evidence that, in many instances, these memories still constitute…bodies of experience rather than discursive knowledge” (Argenti, 35)
#afrihistosky Studies on childhood in 19th-century West Africa? Sierra Leone if possible. Tysm
Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 2y ago#skystorians at the risk of abusing your generosity: can anyone recommend readings about ideas/definitions of childhood in West Africa in the 19th century? Please and thank you 🗃️
#skystorians at the risk of abusing your generosity: can anyone recommend readings about ideas/definitions of childhood in West Africa in the 19th century? Please and thank you 🗃️
🗃️ I am writing a book about children & slavery. The Middle Passage chapters are so difficult. Very very bad things happened to children on slave ships and it doesn’t feel right to turn any of into “argument” or “evidence.” I am trying to hold them in (with?) the writing but I just want to give up.
