Chandra Russo
@chandrarusso.bsky.social
I study social movements and organizing on the Left.
Forthcoming book on white folx organizing for racial and economic justice: https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/white-flank
Cloyingly earnest😆
http://crusso.colgate.domains/
Forthcoming book on white folx organizing for racial and economic justice: https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/white-flank
Cloyingly earnest😆
http://crusso.colgate.domains/
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Chandra Russo
@chandrarusso.bsky.social
· Sep 21
White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice
Organizing White People for Racial Justice
bookshop.org
Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org
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The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.
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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org
White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice
Organizing White People for Racial Justice
bookshop.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org
This looks like a great opportunity! @ucsbkalfou.bsky.social is such a fantastic journal.
Got a project in mind for our special issue on ethnic studies+student activism? Apply to our workshop, Oct 11, to get feedback on your ideas and connect with others on the dreams and struggles embedded in this work. Space is limited; apply soon!
August 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This looks like a great opportunity! @ucsbkalfou.bsky.social is such a fantastic journal.
Powerful and beautifully rendered reflection from @kutalik.bsky.social
I wrote about moving back to LA, the growth of @dsa.la, fightback against ICE, and the late great Mike Davis’ Magical Urbanism.
I Love LA: Fire, Memory, and Struggle
substack.com/@chriskutali...
I Love LA: Fire, Memory, and Struggle
substack.com/@chriskutali...
I Love LA: Fire, Memory, and Struggle
A year ago, I moved back to Los Angeles.
substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Powerful and beautifully rendered reflection from @kutalik.bsky.social
A powerful manifesto from someone who has the courage to walk the walk. Thanks for this beautiful model @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social
Yesterday was my last day at Columbia University. With my contract up, and my conscience clear, I am proud to say that I will no longer be working for the collaborationists and accommodationists of American academia.
mgouldwartofsky.substack.com/p/farewell-t...
mgouldwartofsky.substack.com/p/farewell-t...
Farewell to the Imperial University
Today was my last day at Columbia University.
open.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A powerful manifesto from someone who has the courage to walk the walk. Thanks for this beautiful model @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social
Important and always nuanced insights from @insurgentprof.bsky.social. Powerful stuff
‘It’s a complicated time to be a white Southerner’ − and their views on race reflect that
How do white Southerners think about their racial status in a world that is scrutinizing white advantages? Researchers found people across the political spectrum grappling with what being white means.
theconversation.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Important and always nuanced insights from @insurgentprof.bsky.social. Powerful stuff
One child an hour has died in Gaza since this war began.
Gaza’s stolen childhood: UNICEF says 28 Palestinian children die every day
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
August 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
One child an hour has died in Gaza since this war began.
What an amazing gift for our loved ones fighting the good fight this coming late fall/early winter!
Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...
August 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What an amazing gift for our loved ones fighting the good fight this coming late fall/early winter!
The full issue is finally out, thanks to the incomparable Enid Logan. Here is her great introduction!
The 2024 U.S. presidential election & the politics of race: responding to a moment of crisis with analysis, insight & action
This themed issue is on the 2024 election and the politics of race. And it is also necessarily about the racial dynamics unfolding under the Trump administration at present. The questions addressed...
www.tandfonline.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The full issue is finally out, thanks to the incomparable Enid Logan. Here is her great introduction!
New work by @bryanbrasmussen.bsky.social and @apattison.bsky.social. Love these guys and this great project.
A short story in the @colgate.edu Research Magazine on my project “Condors over Cattle: Managed Wilderness and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Baja California,” with
@bryanbrasmussen.bsky.social news.colgate.edu/researchmaga...
@bryanbrasmussen.bsky.social news.colgate.edu/researchmaga...
Condors vs. Cattle | Colgate Research
news.colgate.edu
July 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New work by @bryanbrasmussen.bsky.social and @apattison.bsky.social. Love these guys and this great project.
Critique as you will the NYT. I still very much appreciate the work of Daniel Martinez Hosang and colleague Joseph Lowndes. This interactive seems an accessible and interesting way to present their work, particularly to students.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them.
One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Critique as you will the NYT. I still very much appreciate the work of Daniel Martinez Hosang and colleague Joseph Lowndes. This interactive seems an accessible and interesting way to present their work, particularly to students.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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When democracy challenges their preferred status quo, too many of these folks shamelessly turn to authoritarian tactics to overturn its outcomes. The current climate only emboldens these fascist fools. Those of us who still believe in the promise of democracy must not give up the fight!
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
June 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
When democracy challenges their preferred status quo, too many of these folks shamelessly turn to authoritarian tactics to overturn its outcomes. The current climate only emboldens these fascist fools. Those of us who still believe in the promise of democracy must not give up the fight!
May we all be so brave as to keep our wits about us in these times.
WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
June 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
May we all be so brave as to keep our wits about us in these times.
“he argued that racism was intended to establish a “nobility of the skin.” Whiteness, Sumner understood, was a class hierarchy—an insight that is still resisted by people on every part of the political spectrum”
wrote about Charles Sumner, someone who proved that racism wasn't somehow natural or unquestioningly accepted in the past—which means it's not natural and shouldn't be accepted today, either. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/charles-su...
Charles Sumner: Of His Time
Our textbooks don’t want you to know about antiracists in the past.
www.everythingishorrible.net
June 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“he argued that racism was intended to establish a “nobility of the skin.” Whiteness, Sumner understood, was a class hierarchy—an insight that is still resisted by people on every part of the political spectrum”
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another day, another asset-stripping overlap between Michigan’s Emergency Manager law and this administration
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..."
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
another day, another asset-stripping overlap between Michigan’s Emergency Manager law and this administration
I wish someone would make a compilation of all the unusual places, the small towns, rural counties, the South, etc. I went to one of those rallies. It was big. And I don’t think it was an outlier.
things are indeed getting worse. but we are going to win.
“No Kings Day”: A compilation
June 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I wish someone would make a compilation of all the unusual places, the small towns, rural counties, the South, etc. I went to one of those rallies. It was big. And I don’t think it was an outlier.
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This part. There are practical benefits to resistance to disappearing people off the street & they are evident. It’s not that protestors are winning it’s that they’re stopping democracy from losing completely.
It’s blindingly clear at this point that the protestors in Los Angeles are in fact helping to prevent a fascist takeover, and the pundits who suggested that protest is counterproductive were being either stupid or actively malicious.
June 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This part. There are practical benefits to resistance to disappearing people off the street & they are evident. It’s not that protestors are winning it’s that they’re stopping democracy from losing completely.
While current immigration policies chase ever more people into conditions of despair, danger and death these dear friends and comrades have been drawing our attention to conditions on the border for decades. They are literally walking the walk again this week.
The Migrant Trail begins 75 mile walk from border to Tucson
The Migrant Trail is a 75 mile walk that takes seven days.
www.kold.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
While current immigration policies chase ever more people into conditions of despair, danger and death these dear friends and comrades have been drawing our attention to conditions on the border for decades. They are literally walking the walk again this week.
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Lessons from environmental and other social movements can help researchers to protect scientific integrity from attack, says Fernando Tormos-Aponte
https://go.nature.com/3YecbNR
https://go.nature.com/3YecbNR
‘Now is not the time for despair’ — how scientists can take a stand against political interference
Lessons from environmental and other social movements can help researchers to protect scientific integrity from attack.
go.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Lessons from environmental and other social movements can help researchers to protect scientific integrity from attack, says Fernando Tormos-Aponte
https://go.nature.com/3YecbNR
https://go.nature.com/3YecbNR
These are the grassroots networks (special shout out to Denver) who taught me my earliest lessons about organizing and interlocking injustices and what it means to stand up to injustice. It was a different era (circa 2005-2010), but “those who believe in freedom will not rest.”
Trump's authoritarian push stumbles as resistance diversifies and grows
Rachel Maddow shows how resistance to Donald Trump's authoritarianism is mutually reinforcing among a broad range of American society, from the courts to civic activism to journalism to politicians. C...
www.msnbc.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
These are the grassroots networks (special shout out to Denver) who taught me my earliest lessons about organizing and interlocking injustices and what it means to stand up to injustice. It was a different era (circa 2005-2010), but “those who believe in freedom will not rest.”
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#ERSNew #SpecialIssue🐣🔓 @chandrarusso.bsky.social shows that organizing white people—especially working class—toward racial justice requires moving beyond liberal antiracism to collective, strategic action. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2482715
April 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
#ERSNew #SpecialIssue🐣🔓 @chandrarusso.bsky.social shows that organizing white people—especially working class—toward racial justice requires moving beyond liberal antiracism to collective, strategic action. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2482715
I keep waiting for a better time to share new work, as if the world will be a little less on fire in a few days. Honored to join @aishaua.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social @jessienyc.bsky.social and many others I admire for this special issue edited by Enid Logan
Beyond the book club: white antiracist organizing before and after the 2024 election
The 2024 US presidential election results show that large portions of the white electorate continue to endorse the politics of nativism, anti-Blackness and misogyny. Yet what white people think and...
www.tandfonline.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I keep waiting for a better time to share new work, as if the world will be a little less on fire in a few days. Honored to join @aishaua.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social @jessienyc.bsky.social and many others I admire for this special issue edited by Enid Logan
Heartbreak, hope and great reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social
Our small town is not so far from Sackets Harbor, and we’ve been following this terrible story closely.
Our small town is not so far from Sackets Harbor, and we’ve been following this terrible story closely.
New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home.
Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
Try that in a small town
ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children. Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Heartbreak, hope and great reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social
Our small town is not so far from Sackets Harbor, and we’ve been following this terrible story closely.
Our small town is not so far from Sackets Harbor, and we’ve been following this terrible story closely.