Alexander Manevitz
@historicities.bsky.social
Educator and Historian of race, freedom, capitalism, & urbanism in United States, NYC, & Seneca Village. Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY (He/Him)
http://www.alexandermanevitz.com
http://www.alexandermanevitz.com
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Cover reveal! Pre-orders coming in the new year; releases July 2024. Grateful to the folks at the University of Oklahoma Press for such a wonderful cover!
October 31, 2023 at 2:23 PM
Cover reveal! Pre-orders coming in the new year; releases July 2024. Grateful to the folks at the University of Oklahoma Press for such a wonderful cover!
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The new Speaker rejects the separation of church and state, he disdains pluralism, and he certainly doesn’t like “democracy.” What’s maybe most concerning is the fact that this just puts him right at the center of today’s GOP.
The New Speaker vs. Democracy, Threats of MAGA Violence as the New Normal, and the State of the 2024 Presidential Race
A short thread outlining what we discuss in the new episode of “Is This Democracy”: 1/
A short thread outlining what we discuss in the new episode of “Is This Democracy”: 1/
Is This Democracy: 28. The New Speaker vs. Democracy, Threats of MAGA Violence as the New Normal,...
Show Is This Democracy, Ep 28. The New Speaker vs. Democracy, Threats of MAGA Violence as the New Normal, and the State of the 2024 Presidential Race - Oct 27, 2023
podcasts.apple.com
October 27, 2023 at 5:07 PM
The new Speaker rejects the separation of church and state, he disdains pluralism, and he certainly doesn’t like “democracy.” What’s maybe most concerning is the fact that this just puts him right at the center of today’s GOP.
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sic semper tyrannis
October 26, 2023 at 7:38 PM
sic semper tyrannis
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This cannot be said enough. An armed society is an unfree society!
Lewiston is still in lock down. Since the gun debate is so often framed around freedom what about the freedom of movement, to leave your house, go to work, go out? Why does your right to Rambo cosplay trump my mom's right to run to the grocery store?
Mass shooting in my home town. Suspect at large according to the local newspaper. My mom is fine. It's just...the "serious" people who tell me I'm suppose to respect the people & opinions that keep this country drowning in guns. Fuck that & fuck them
www.sunjournal.com/2023/10/25/m...
www.sunjournal.com/2023/10/25/m...
October 26, 2023 at 3:10 PM
This cannot be said enough. An armed society is an unfree society!
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Reprinting for those who had hoped to get beyond the CoHE paywall: "We're Not Doing Enough for Grad Students at Conferences"
benjamincarp.com/blog/were-no...
benjamincarp.com/blog/were-no...
September 26, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Reprinting for those who had hoped to get beyond the CoHE paywall: "We're Not Doing Enough for Grad Students at Conferences"
benjamincarp.com/blog/were-no...
benjamincarp.com/blog/were-no...
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Book proposal development grants for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Scholars in the Humanities
press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...
press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...
Book Proposal Development Grants
press.princeton.edu
September 12, 2023 at 3:16 PM
Book proposal development grants for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Scholars in the Humanities
press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...
press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...
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JFC the eugenics is loud.
Multiple West Virginia lawmakers have recently supported voluntary sterilization of incarcerated people.
Said one lawmaker: “If you want to lessen your prison sentence… then you get your tubes tied, so you don’t bring any more drug babies into the system.”
boltsmag.org/west-virgini...
Said one lawmaker: “If you want to lessen your prison sentence… then you get your tubes tied, so you don’t bring any more drug babies into the system.”
boltsmag.org/west-virgini...
New Law Could Make It Even Harder to Get Health Care in Deadly West Virginia Lockups
In a last-minute special session, the GOP-led legislature rushed through a law denying care that corrections officials don’t deem “medically necessary.”
boltsmag.org
September 12, 2023 at 1:07 AM
JFC the eugenics is loud.
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Stanford is doing one interesting thing with its gen ed requirements, but it's not "saving democracy" through civics. With a grateful h/t (and a bunch of quotes) to @profmusgrave.bsky.social.
Stanford Doesn't Seem to Understand How to College
The only interesting thing about their General Education Requirements
modernmedieval.substack.com
September 4, 2023 at 6:52 PM
Stanford is doing one interesting thing with its gen ed requirements, but it's not "saving democracy" through civics. With a grateful h/t (and a bunch of quotes) to @profmusgrave.bsky.social.
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I have a new piece about the West African and African Atlantic history of smallpox inoculation in Slate
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.
When I looked at the archives, I found a history hidden in plain sight.
slate.com
September 4, 2023 at 3:11 PM
I have a new piece about the West African and African Atlantic history of smallpox inoculation in Slate
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Powerful front page of tomorrow's edition of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's student newspaper. From text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday.
August 30, 2023 at 12:59 AM
Powerful front page of tomorrow's edition of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's student newspaper. From text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday.
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Bowdoin is searching for a TT assistant prof of early North American history (broadly defined, including Indigenous history and the Caribbean) who will develop a curriculum centered in early modern North American history to 1815. https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/12279
August 2, 2023 at 12:08 AM
Bowdoin is searching for a TT assistant prof of early North American history (broadly defined, including Indigenous history and the Caribbean) who will develop a curriculum centered in early modern North American history to 1815. https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/12279
In a racist attempt to scare undergrads and justify their own existence, Yale cops...plagiarized a pamphlet from when the NYPD did the same in 1970s.
2023: www.courant.com/2023/08/22/y...
1975: www.gawker.com/fear-city-th...
2023: www.courant.com/2023/08/22/y...
1975: www.gawker.com/fear-city-th...
Yale police union hands out ‘fear-mongering’ flyers to students
“Young people are coming to the city for the first time. That’s appalling. You don’t try to scare them into getting a better contract,” Jacobson said.
www.courant.com
August 23, 2023 at 2:05 PM
In a racist attempt to scare undergrads and justify their own existence, Yale cops...plagiarized a pamphlet from when the NYPD did the same in 1970s.
2023: www.courant.com/2023/08/22/y...
1975: www.gawker.com/fear-city-th...
2023: www.courant.com/2023/08/22/y...
1975: www.gawker.com/fear-city-th...
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Loving tribute to a legendary nineteenth-century Black bibliographer –– this coverage makes me so happy
Overlooked No More: Robert M. Budd, Whose Newsstand Was Unlike Any Other
He built a thriving business in New York selling back numbers, or old issues of newspapers and magazines, recognizing their value and the history they contained.
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2023 at 2:46 PM
Loving tribute to a legendary nineteenth-century Black bibliographer –– this coverage makes me so happy
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I'm just absolutely shocked that Rufo, who lacks any experience in HigherEd, is bad at running a university
New, from me: I wrote about how the DeSantis/Rufo incompetence at New College is leaving students without classes to take or campus housing to live in. https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/new-college-is-a-warning-about-the?r=slfke&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
New College is a warning about the price of populist incompetence
What happens when inexperienced radicals can't run public services
open.substack.com
August 18, 2023 at 12:06 AM
I'm just absolutely shocked that Rufo, who lacks any experience in HigherEd, is bad at running a university
I don't think I realized until I saw it articulated as such here, but I recently decided that I want my book to be a viable response to this question! And after big summer reorganization/reprioritization I feel well on my way...now to rewrite the whole thing, which is as terrifying as it is exciting
Here’s something I’m pondering as I work on my third book. What are examples of non-fiction books that are utterly cohesive wholes, books that *must be read through*, that are more than the sum of their parts, in which each chapter builds on the last?
August 17, 2023 at 3:26 PM
I don't think I realized until I saw it articulated as such here, but I recently decided that I want my book to be a viable response to this question! And after big summer reorganization/reprioritization I feel well on my way...now to rewrite the whole thing, which is as terrifying as it is exciting
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I wrote about the crisis in humanities research funding: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/15/does-humanities-research-matter-anymore-opinion
Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion)
The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.
www.insidehighered.com
August 15, 2023 at 2:28 PM
I wrote about the crisis in humanities research funding: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/15/does-humanities-research-matter-anymore-opinion
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Thanks so much to @nbcnews.bsky.social for asking me what it's like to live through a historic moment as a historian and how it compares to what I've seen in the past. Like those that have come before us, we know history when we see it, we just don't know how it will turn out yet.
August 15, 2023 at 11:46 AM
Thanks so much to @nbcnews.bsky.social for asking me what it's like to live through a historic moment as a historian and how it compares to what I've seen in the past. Like those that have come before us, we know history when we see it, we just don't know how it will turn out yet.
Great short piece featuring Bélizaire, an enslaved child featured in then painted out of his enslavers’ family portrait. It’s about erasure of enslaved people in our history and our culture, as well as the significance of restoring their place in our story.
“We know his name. We know his journey.”
“We know his name. We know his journey.”
Incredible mini-documentary by the NYTimes on the recently restored painting of an enslaved child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n60NTrKs-wc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n60NTrKs-wc
August 15, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Great short piece featuring Bélizaire, an enslaved child featured in then painted out of his enslavers’ family portrait. It’s about erasure of enslaved people in our history and our culture, as well as the significance of restoring their place in our story.
“We know his name. We know his journey.”
“We know his name. We know his journey.”
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SAG-AFTRA Strike, explained
August 14, 2023 at 11:36 PM
SAG-AFTRA Strike, explained
A colleague called today with a research question. I mentioned I was with family and he abruptly said "no problem" and hung up before I had a chance to respond. Then followed up with a text: "family comes first." I so appreciated the respect of personal time in this field—though sad it felt rare.
August 14, 2023 at 7:59 PM
A colleague called today with a research question. I mentioned I was with family and he abruptly said "no problem" and hung up before I had a chance to respond. Then followed up with a text: "family comes first." I so appreciated the respect of personal time in this field—though sad it felt rare.
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7% of WVU faculty could be laid off while the top four earning coaches make $4million each and the president makes $800k, but tell me again how wokeism is the problem with higher education today.
August 14, 2023 at 1:21 AM
7% of WVU faculty could be laid off while the top four earning coaches make $4million each and the president makes $800k, but tell me again how wokeism is the problem with higher education today.
Where have all the "it's not really fascism if it doesn't come from the fascism region of France" types gone?
Actual, literal, non-metaphorical fascism
Horrifying: Kansas police raided a newspaper office after the paper published a critical article -- https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/
August 12, 2023 at 1:38 AM
Where have all the "it's not really fascism if it doesn't come from the fascism region of France" types gone?
Happy Birthday* to Hip Hop.
8/11/1973 - Bronx, NY - Kool Herc combined audio engineering and musical flair to invent the break beat so his friends could dance. It became a distinctly American—yet also deeply African and Caribbean derived—art form that has shaped world culture in return. 🗃
8/11/1973 - Bronx, NY - Kool Herc combined audio engineering and musical flair to invent the break beat so his friends could dance. It became a distinctly American—yet also deeply African and Caribbean derived—art form that has shaped world culture in return. 🗃
August 12, 2023 at 1:36 AM
Happy Birthday* to Hip Hop.
8/11/1973 - Bronx, NY - Kool Herc combined audio engineering and musical flair to invent the break beat so his friends could dance. It became a distinctly American—yet also deeply African and Caribbean derived—art form that has shaped world culture in return. 🗃
8/11/1973 - Bronx, NY - Kool Herc combined audio engineering and musical flair to invent the break beat so his friends could dance. It became a distinctly American—yet also deeply African and Caribbean derived—art form that has shaped world culture in return. 🗃