Against Archival Erasure: a conversation on Caribbean women and the archive. 2/27 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Atlantic is indistinguishable from Compact.
It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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On a separate note, this isn’t even the most exciting development in the study of CLR James in my own household this week. news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...
Lost pages reveal an alternate ending to a classic Caribbean novel
Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James
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There hasn't been a lot of empirical evidence yet -- here's a start from Kim + Hamilton. Faculty hiring of URMs decreases after state introduction (not passage) of anti-DEI legislation. Impact greater for teaching-focused schools, and increases with state revenue dependence. osf.io/preprints/so...
BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why. It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.
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Don't miss the first of this semester's New Faculty Voices Q&A series! This semester we were delighted to welcome Professor Farah Bakaari to UC Berkeley English. A scholar of 20th and 21st Century African Literature, you can learn more about her and her work in our Q&A - link in bio!
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
Want to read about postcolonial literature that's contributed to anti-colonial legal change? Keen on Arundhati Roy, M. NourbeSe Philip, Zoë Wicomb, Ben Okri, or Chigozie Obioma? Buy my new book for only $24 (free shipping) from Fordham UP with code CASEY25-FI www.fordhampress.com/978153151063...
Aesthetic Impropriety
Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, colonial Britain’s property laws are in the process of being transformed. Aesthetic Impropriety analyzes vanguard le...
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Rose Casey@rosecasey.bsky.social · last yr.Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25. I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
In a new article in Verge, @neelofer.bsky.social, Najnin Islam, and I offer iteration as the aesthetic logic by which contemporary visual culture connects Indian indenture to the labor systems that precede and follow it. Check it out in Verge (open access!) muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Project MUSE - Indenture, Iteration: Race and the Aesthetics of Contract Labor
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Penn is due for reaccreditation. That requires a university to adhere to principles of academic freedom, shared governance, open expression, and diversity. Speak up and tell MSCHE: unelected trustees' and donors' recent actions put Penn's future at risk. Public comment ends 1/12 shorturl.at/giAOS
Unpopular opinion: the MLA convention somehow morphed into one of the better scholarly events out there. Plenty of complaints, sure, but I've been almost every year since 2017. And as all the tweets & texts are reminding me–a lot of good work is happening in those dim ballrooms!
For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo: It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am. We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.
