Justin Randolph
@randolphjustin.bsky.social
U.S. historian | author of *Mississippi Law* | reader, eater, friend, southern
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-5060
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-5060
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Mississippi Law | Justin Randolph | University of North Carolina Press
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside ...
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My book on policing and resistance under Jim Crow authoritarianism is available for pre-order from @uncpress.bsky.social! Code 01SOCIAL30 saves 30%!
Better yet, suggest its purchase at your local library.
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Better yet, suggest its purchase at your local library.
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
“The AAUP urges the Texas A&M Board of Regents to reject the proposal and protect the reputation, integrity, and ability of Texas A&M to perform the functions of higher education and remain an institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and committed to safeguarding students’ rights to learn.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The AAUP urges the Texas A&M Board of Regents to reject the proposal and protect the reputation, integrity, and ability of Texas A&M to perform the functions of higher education and remain an institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and committed to safeguarding students’ rights to learn.”
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⏰ Please send letters to the A&M Board of Regents today by 11:59 pm as their meeting is scheduled to begin tomorrow‼️
Details are below, and please remember to put in the agenda item you are commenting on in the subject line of the email, which is agenda item no 4.2.
Details are below, and please remember to put in the agenda item you are commenting on in the subject line of the email, which is agenda item no 4.2.
To submit written testimony email the board here: BORMTG-PublicTestimony@tamus.edu
Instructions here:
www.tamus.edu/regents/publ...
Instructions here:
www.tamus.edu/regents/publ...
Policy on Public Testimony - Office of The Board of Regents
Policy on Public Testimony Policy 02.01 Public Testimony on Agenda Items at Regular Meetings of the Board of Regents A member of the public is allowed to present written and oral testimony, for a reas...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
⏰ Please send letters to the A&M Board of Regents today by 11:59 pm as their meeting is scheduled to begin tomorrow‼️
Details are below, and please remember to put in the agenda item you are commenting on in the subject line of the email, which is agenda item no 4.2.
Details are below, and please remember to put in the agenda item you are commenting on in the subject line of the email, which is agenda item no 4.2.
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Senghor: Writings on Politics," which brings Léopold Sédar Senghor’s most vital essays, speeches, and political writings to English-language readers for the first time. It's edited & translated by Yohann C. Ripert. buff.ly/lCkuIeY
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Senghor: Writings on Politics," which brings Léopold Sédar Senghor’s most vital essays, speeches, and political writings to English-language readers for the first time. It's edited & translated by Yohann C. Ripert. buff.ly/lCkuIeY
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📢📢 We are proud to stand in solidarity today at this Texas State Employees Union rally for Dr. Tom Alter who was unjustly fired from Texas State University for exercising his right to free speech. The Texas State Board of Regents must reinstate Dr. Alter immediately! ✊
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
📢📢 We are proud to stand in solidarity today at this Texas State Employees Union rally for Dr. Tom Alter who was unjustly fired from Texas State University for exercising his right to free speech. The Texas State Board of Regents must reinstate Dr. Alter immediately! ✊
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🔔 NEW: “The Texas State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TXST) has issued a formal appeal urging the Texas State University System Board Regents to abide by its own rules and reverse the summary dismissal of tenured history professor Dr. Thomas Alter.”
AAUP-TXST Calls on Texas State University System Regents to Defend Academic Freedom and Due Process
A Union of Professionals
www.texasaft.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🔔 NEW: “The Texas State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TXST) has issued a formal appeal urging the Texas State University System Board Regents to abide by its own rules and reverse the summary dismissal of tenured history professor Dr. Thomas Alter.”
"no system academic course will teach race…” [and yes it goes on from there]
🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"no system academic course will teach race…” [and yes it goes on from there]
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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
admittedly not that plugged in but DID we know that government sites, in this case the DOJ, say this???
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
admittedly not that plugged in but DID we know that government sites, in this case the DOJ, say this???
<3
Justin Randolph, MISSISSIPPI LAW: POLICING AND REFORM IN AMERICA’S JIM CROW COUNTRYSIDE (@uncpress.bsky.social)
And in the JSH: “The Jim Crow Militia: Paramilitary Police Reform and Law-and-Order Liberalism in Mississippi” (May 2024): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
#2025SHA
And in the JSH: “The Jim Crow Militia: Paramilitary Police Reform and Law-and-Order Liberalism in Mississippi” (May 2024): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
#2025SHA
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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It's New Books Tuesday 🙌 Check out these two new titles publishing today
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New This Week: November 4th - UNC Press Blog
It’s New Books Tuesday and publishing today we have two new releases that offer fresh perspectives on race, space, and power in the United States. The Undesirable Many, part of our acclaimed Justice, ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It's New Books Tuesday 🙌 Check out these two new titles publishing today
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help keep a dear friend and incredible activist connected in the face of the FCC’s deregulation of prisoners’ phone calls!
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October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
help keep a dear friend and incredible activist connected in the face of the FCC’s deregulation of prisoners’ phone calls!
Buy a $5 raffle ticket. You might even score some beautiful earrings! forms.gle/2wKTk1fZU7S7...
Buy a $5 raffle ticket. You might even score some beautiful earrings! forms.gle/2wKTk1fZU7S7...
read the harrowing story of activist A. C. Whitaker and a MS state trooper during Freedom Summer:
“He grabbed the trooper’s blackjack, midair. 'I told him that he could kill me before I’d turn it loose.’ "
“He grabbed the trooper’s blackjack, midair. 'I told him that he could kill me before I’d turn it loose.’ "
today on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: an author's pitch from @randolphjustin.bsky.social on his new @uncpress.bsky.social book MISSISSIPPI LAW
carceral-history.ghost.io/territory-co...
carceral-history.ghost.io/territory-co...
territory, cows, and the crooked paths to policing’s autocracy
"the conquest of rural space was an important step in the development of the police power necessary for our age of mass incarceration and ungovernable law enforcement."
carceral-history.ghost.io
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
read the harrowing story of activist A. C. Whitaker and a MS state trooper during Freedom Summer:
“He grabbed the trooper’s blackjack, midair. 'I told him that he could kill me before I’d turn it loose.’ "
“He grabbed the trooper’s blackjack, midair. 'I told him that he could kill me before I’d turn it loose.’ "
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NEW PIECE: I finally unveil the deep segregationist Georgia relationships of Fed Chair Bill Martin I dug up over the course of researching my (now set aside) book on the Federal Reserve: Picking Losers. Its a labyrinthine story so grab a coffee & Subscribe
www.crisesnotes.com/bombshell-19...
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BOMBSHELL: 1951-1970 Federal Reserve Chair Bill Martin Was a Committed Segregationist
This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was born and raised in Milledgeville Georgia, about a 100 miles away from Atlanta. She also shares a birth year with...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
NEW PIECE: I finally unveil the deep segregationist Georgia relationships of Fed Chair Bill Martin I dug up over the course of researching my (now set aside) book on the Federal Reserve: Picking Losers. Its a labyrinthine story so grab a coffee & Subscribe
www.crisesnotes.com/bombshell-19...
www.crisesnotes.com/bombshell-19...
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A few more pics from yesterday's absurdly adorable press conference.
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A few more pics from yesterday's absurdly adorable press conference.
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“Over 170 U.S. Citizens are being arrested. Why? Because they look like me,” Rep. Robert Garcia of California said, referencing our reporting. “Or because they are suspected to not be a U.S. citizen, or because they are suspected of crimes they have not committed.”
Joint Congressional Investigation Launched in Response to ProPublica’s Revelations on Detained Americans
Senators, House members and even a mayor expressed outrage and demanded accountability after our investigation detailed how at least 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents this year.
www.propublica.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“Over 170 U.S. Citizens are being arrested. Why? Because they look like me,” Rep. Robert Garcia of California said, referencing our reporting. “Or because they are suspected to not be a U.S. citizen, or because they are suspected of crimes they have not committed.”
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Found the future of the field in my mailbox. Huge congrats @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social @m-r-glass.bsky.social @randolphjustin.bsky.social ! ! !
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Found the future of the field in my mailbox. Huge congrats @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social @m-r-glass.bsky.social @randolphjustin.bsky.social ! ! !
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Executive director the private prison company LaSalle Corrections - a major ICE contractor - died this week in a plane crash while traveling from Huntsville, TX to Louisiana.
This might seem minor but... I'm so curious why he was flying from Huntsville TX (hq of the TX prison system) to Louisiana
This might seem minor but... I'm so curious why he was flying from Huntsville TX (hq of the TX prison system) to Louisiana
Head of ICE Detention Contractor Reportedly Dead in Plane Crash
Rodney Cooper’s plane reportedly crashed while en route from Huntsville, Tx to Louisiana
detentionkills.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Executive director the private prison company LaSalle Corrections - a major ICE contractor - died this week in a plane crash while traveling from Huntsville, TX to Louisiana.
This might seem minor but... I'm so curious why he was flying from Huntsville TX (hq of the TX prison system) to Louisiana
This might seem minor but... I'm so curious why he was flying from Huntsville TX (hq of the TX prison system) to Louisiana
help me celebrate today’s publication of MISSISSIPPI LAW with @uncpress.bsky.social! looking for a history of American authoritarianism? the rural South? the Black freedom struggles that made life there possible? this is your book!
$23 with code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout.
your library needs one!
$23 with code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout.
your library needs one!
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
help me celebrate today’s publication of MISSISSIPPI LAW with @uncpress.bsky.social! looking for a history of American authoritarianism? the rural South? the Black freedom struggles that made life there possible? this is your book!
$23 with code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout.
your library needs one!
$23 with code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout.
your library needs one!
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a thing you can learn about from my book is the deeply repressive history of the Cook County Sheriff’s office, and why Tom Dart is fundamentally untrustworthy www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
a thing you can learn about from my book is the deeply repressive history of the Cook County Sheriff’s office, and why Tom Dart is fundamentally untrustworthy www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
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I have a zine I published this year that focuses on US policing and tear gas: issuu.com/projectnia/d...
A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas
This is the 6th issue in Mariame Kaba's archival activations series. It was designed by Cindy Lau (October 2024).
issuu.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I have a zine I published this year that focuses on US policing and tear gas: issuu.com/projectnia/d...
TODAY! 3pm, Athenian! hear how urban and rural histories of policing are DEEPLY connected.
#UHA2025LA
#UHA2025LA
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
TODAY! 3pm, Athenian! hear how urban and rural histories of policing are DEEPLY connected.
#UHA2025LA
#UHA2025LA
TOMORROW! hear how urban and rural histories of policing are DEEPLY connected. Friday, 3pm, Athenian
#UHA2025LA
#UHA2025LA
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
TOMORROW! hear how urban and rural histories of policing are DEEPLY connected. Friday, 3pm, Athenian
#UHA2025LA
#UHA2025LA
a great service to the profession from scholars doing excellent work!
⇨ Get ready for #UHA2025LA!
We're writing to introduce our #socialmedia volunteers, who will be roaming the conference and sharing updates via the Urban History Association's social media accounts on #BlueSky @urbanhistorya.bsky.social and #Instagram [@urbanhistoryassociation]
We're writing to introduce our #socialmedia volunteers, who will be roaming the conference and sharing updates via the Urban History Association's social media accounts on #BlueSky @urbanhistorya.bsky.social and #Instagram [@urbanhistoryassociation]
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
a great service to the profession from scholars doing excellent work!