Uzma Quraishi
@quraishiphd.bsky.social
Historian of Asian migration, transnational US, Cold War. New project: US propaganda in Pk. Still the Gulf of Mexico. ¿Is this the new void into which I 😱? www.uquraishi.com
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@quraishiphd.bsky.social
· May 16
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Shameless plug on the 5-year anniversary of my first book! Looking for a U.S. history that covers segregation in the post-Jim Crow South, foreign relations, international students, Asian Americans, and urban hist? Consider 📗 Redefining the Immigrant South!📗 uncpress.org/book/9781469... #skystorians
Historians everywhere are 😂😭 because we've seen what "AI history" looks like, and it's...bad. Today's AI experiment gave me totally wrong historical dates/locations because it can't assess accuracy. It can only scrape to the corners of the web and regurgitate. #skystorians
August 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Historians everywhere are 😂😭 because we've seen what "AI history" looks like, and it's...bad. Today's AI experiment gave me totally wrong historical dates/locations because it can't assess accuracy. It can only scrape to the corners of the web and regurgitate. #skystorians
Crucial win in the battle for academic freedom!!!💥💥💥I must say, I didn't expect this! I'm hugely relieved at this positive development on TX SB 37 that allows us to continue teaching about the history of race, gender, inequality, ethnicity...in other words, history. #AFT #unions #skystorians
June 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Crucial win in the battle for academic freedom!!!💥💥💥I must say, I didn't expect this! I'm hugely relieved at this positive development on TX SB 37 that allows us to continue teaching about the history of race, gender, inequality, ethnicity...in other words, history. #AFT #unions #skystorians
Shameless plug on the 5-year anniversary of my first book! Looking for a U.S. history that covers segregation in the post-Jim Crow South, foreign relations, international students, Asian Americans, and urban hist? Consider 📗 Redefining the Immigrant South!📗 uncpress.org/book/9781469... #skystorians
Books
Browse our titles
uncpress.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Shameless plug on the 5-year anniversary of my first book! Looking for a U.S. history that covers segregation in the post-Jim Crow South, foreign relations, international students, Asian Americans, and urban hist? Consider 📗 Redefining the Immigrant South!📗 uncpress.org/book/9781469... #skystorians
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a society where "bad immigrants" are demonised is a society where no immigrant can truly feel welcome, because aren't we all just one wrong turn or accident away from being unemployed? on disability benefits? unable to care for our children without state help? just no such thing as a safe immigrant
May 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
a society where "bad immigrants" are demonised is a society where no immigrant can truly feel welcome, because aren't we all just one wrong turn or accident away from being unemployed? on disability benefits? unable to care for our children without state help? just no such thing as a safe immigrant
State takeover of higher ed now goes to the House. Don't, for a second, think this strategy will remain confined to TX #history
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...
Texas Senate approves bill that could reshape how history and race are taught in state universities
An overhauled version of Senate Bill 37 would also allow anyone to file complaints that could lead schools to lose funds.
www.texastribune.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
State takeover of higher ed now goes to the House. Don't, for a second, think this strategy will remain confined to TX #history
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...
"Radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students...expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement."🗃
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students...expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement."🗃
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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Taking joy where we can these days. @illinoispress.bsky.social did a fantastic job with Hidden Histories! Couldn't be more proud to work with @kangborderlaw.bsky.social and all of our authors on this project.
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Taking joy where we can these days. @illinoispress.bsky.social did a fantastic job with Hidden Histories! Couldn't be more proud to work with @kangborderlaw.bsky.social and all of our authors on this project.
Always excited about @beaconpress.bsky.social ReVisioning History series but especially Gloria Browne-Marshall's "A Protest History of the US." This is the history we need rn!✊️ 🗃
April 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Always excited about @beaconpress.bsky.social ReVisioning History series but especially Gloria Browne-Marshall's "A Protest History of the US." This is the history we need rn!✊️ 🗃
Money quote: "You know that you are no longer living in a democracy because the elections in which you are participating no longer can yield political change."
www.vox.com/the-big-idea...
www.vox.com/the-big-idea...
Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable
Americans have an overly dramatic view what the end of democracy looks like.
www.vox.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Money quote: "You know that you are no longer living in a democracy because the elections in which you are participating no longer can yield political change."
www.vox.com/the-big-idea...
www.vox.com/the-big-idea...
Today at 4pm Central! Collab with @penamerica.bsky.social. Much of the session is reserved for audience Q&A so come armed with ALL the questions! 🗃 #skystorians #AcademicFreedom @oah.org
Don’t miss this week’s OAH webinar: History, Censorship, and Higher Education in 2025. Explore how educators are navigating challenges to academic freedom. Register now to secure your spot: ow.ly/lnJV50UX2tC
February 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today at 4pm Central! Collab with @penamerica.bsky.social. Much of the session is reserved for audience Q&A so come armed with ALL the questions! 🗃 #skystorians #AcademicFreedom @oah.org
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Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Lots of sudden interest in Daniel Immerwahr's map of the "Greater United States," and that's all well and good, but I'm personally partial to Bill Rankin's master map of the Territories of the US, which more fully captures the patchwork of jurisdictions (including, crucially, military installations)
January 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Lots of sudden interest in Daniel Immerwahr's map of the "Greater United States," and that's all well and good, but I'm personally partial to Bill Rankin's master map of the Territories of the US, which more fully captures the patchwork of jurisdictions (including, crucially, military installations)
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Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! on the annual meeting of the AHA and its vote against scholasticide in Gaza. @srseikaly.bsky.social, Barbara Weinstein, and @quinnslobodian.com showing how we amplify our voices as historians on the most urgent issues. @weinstein www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...
American Historical Association Condemns Israel’s Scholasticide in Gaza
The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehen...
www.democracynow.org
January 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! on the annual meeting of the AHA and its vote against scholasticide in Gaza. @srseikaly.bsky.social, Barbara Weinstein, and @quinnslobodian.com showing how we amplify our voices as historians on the most urgent issues. @weinstein www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...
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🗃️If you're interested in #immigration history @iehs.bsky.social runs a lively online series featuring some great recent books, with 10-minute presentations posted at www.youtube.com/@iehs_org. Recent authors include @carlygoodman.bsky.social @ithacamcg.bsky.social camcg.bsky.social & many others.
November 14, 2024 at 12:58 AM
🗃️If you're interested in #immigration history @iehs.bsky.social runs a lively online series featuring some great recent books, with 10-minute presentations posted at www.youtube.com/@iehs_org. Recent authors include @carlygoodman.bsky.social @ithacamcg.bsky.social camcg.bsky.social & many others.
I have jury duty today. What's your advice? Bad advice only. 😈
November 13, 2024 at 3:23 PM
I have jury duty today. What's your advice? Bad advice only. 😈
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Thrilled to help kick off the terrific "Speech & the Border" @knightcolumbia.org podcast series with George Wang in Ep. 1, featuring my research on ideological exclusion/deportation & activist Ravi Ragbir, who challenged his retaliatory deportation under Trump 1.0 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Speech & the Border E1: What are we so afraid of?
Podcast Episode · Views on First · 11/13/2024 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Thrilled to help kick off the terrific "Speech & the Border" @knightcolumbia.org podcast series with George Wang in Ep. 1, featuring my research on ideological exclusion/deportation & activist Ravi Ragbir, who challenged his retaliatory deportation under Trump 1.0 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Reposting: Since this place is suddenly buzzing, help me add new names to this Immigration Historians starter pack. Anyone can be added--just reply below
go.bsky.app/KTQuNKx. Share freely! 🗃
go.bsky.app/KTQuNKx. Share freely! 🗃
November 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Reposting: Since this place is suddenly buzzing, help me add new names to this Immigration Historians starter pack. Anyone can be added--just reply below
go.bsky.app/KTQuNKx. Share freely! 🗃
go.bsky.app/KTQuNKx. Share freely! 🗃
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I wrote for @thenation.com about what we have been watching over the past 24 hours. The people in power are terrified of the strength of this movement, and they are doing everything they can to punish students for having the audacity to challenge them. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
This Is How Power Protects Itself
The decision to sic the police on peaceful protesters is evidence that people in charge are panicking. They’re terrified of the strength of the movement for Palestine.
www.thenation.com
May 1, 2024 at 2:13 PM
I wrote for @thenation.com about what we have been watching over the past 24 hours. The people in power are terrified of the strength of this movement, and they are doing everything they can to punish students for having the audacity to challenge them. www.thenation.com/article/acti...