Ryan Cecil Jobson
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
assistant prof @uchicago. black study. caribbean anthro. yaadie. anarcho-zesser. author of the petro-state masquerade ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 http://bit.ly/3z2Geyk. yankees. nets. jets. chelsea fc.
Our new issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social is out! Featuring an editorial by me and Christen Smith, unpublished manuscripts and translations from Marlene Cunha, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Ellen Irene Diggs, and articles by Pyar Seth and Nala Williams. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Our new issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social is out! Featuring an editorial by me and Christen Smith, unpublished manuscripts and translations from Marlene Cunha, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Ellen Irene Diggs, and articles by Pyar Seth and Nala Williams. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
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Our latest issue on the “Archives of Black Anthropology” is now available online!
We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.
We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our latest issue on the “Archives of Black Anthropology” is now available online!
We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.
We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.
For friends headed to New Orleans for the AAAs, mark your calendars for our roundtable on Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital, a book discussion with Christien Tompkins, and a video installation on militarism in the southern Caribbean that I curated with Brent Crosson. #ABAxTA_NOLA
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
For friends headed to New Orleans for the AAAs, mark your calendars for our roundtable on Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital, a book discussion with Christien Tompkins, and a video installation on militarism in the southern Caribbean that I curated with Brent Crosson. #ABAxTA_NOLA
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Book Club is back for AAA! We’ll be talking about @cptompkins.bsky.social’s book A Burdensome Experiment on Saturday (11/22) 3-4pm. RSVP for the location: partiful.com/e/oYY9D6L1l8... @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
RSVP to Book Club Live @ AAA: A Burdensome Experiment | Partiful
Join us for our third annual live Book Club at AAA in New Orleans, hosted by Ryan Jobson, Michael Ralph, and Maya Singhal! We will be in conversation with Christien Philmarc Tompkins to discuss his book, A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina. We will send the location to everyone RSVPed a few hours before the event (it will be somewhere in or around the conference space).
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November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Book Club is back for AAA! We’ll be talking about @cptompkins.bsky.social’s book A Burdensome Experiment on Saturday (11/22) 3-4pm. RSVP for the location: partiful.com/e/oYY9D6L1l8... @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
An open-access download of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy is now available. This new edition features an introduction by yours truly and an afterword by Schuyler Esprit.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
An open-access download of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy is now available. This new edition features an introduction by yours truly and an afterword by Schuyler Esprit.
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My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!
Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!
Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!
Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!
Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!
Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!
Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
September 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family
A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO
Contributors
@doctorjc.bsky.social
Krystal Ghisyawan
@julianisenia.bsky.social
@larrylafountain.bsky.social
Moderated by
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social @vanessayperez.bsky.social
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A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO
Contributors
@doctorjc.bsky.social
Krystal Ghisyawan
@julianisenia.bsky.social
@larrylafountain.bsky.social
Moderated by
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social @vanessayperez.bsky.social
smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...
September 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family
A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO
Contributors
@doctorjc.bsky.social
Krystal Ghisyawan
@julianisenia.bsky.social
@larrylafountain.bsky.social
Moderated by
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social @vanessayperez.bsky.social
smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...
A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO
Contributors
@doctorjc.bsky.social
Krystal Ghisyawan
@julianisenia.bsky.social
@larrylafountain.bsky.social
Moderated by
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social @vanessayperez.bsky.social
smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...
Perfect timing if you’re still looking for a (digital) copy of my book. 🙏🏽
August 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Perfect timing if you’re still looking for a (digital) copy of my book. 🙏🏽
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Our spring issue is out! The issue, the first under the new editorial leadership of Christen Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson, features beautiful cover art by Madjeen Isaac and articles on Black geographies, queer Black hip-hop discographies, and state violence and “witch talk” in the DR.
June 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Our spring issue is out! The issue, the first under the new editorial leadership of Christen Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson, features beautiful cover art by Madjeen Isaac and articles on Black geographies, queer Black hip-hop discographies, and state violence and “witch talk” in the DR.
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Our first issue under the editorial leadership of Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson begins with a letter to our readers marking a new chapter for the journal and grappling with the “struggle for liberation” that is the “very foundation of Black anthropology.”
July 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our first issue under the editorial leadership of Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson begins with a letter to our readers marking a new chapter for the journal and grappling with the “struggle for liberation” that is the “very foundation of Black anthropology.”
The spring issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social —and debut issue with my coeditor Christen Smith—is out! Read for articles on Black geographies, state violence in Haiti/Quisqeya, and queer hip hop genealogies. Thanks to Madjeen Isaac for the cover art! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
June 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The spring issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social —and debut issue with my coeditor Christen Smith—is out! Read for articles on Black geographies, state violence in Haiti/Quisqeya, and queer hip hop genealogies. Thanks to Madjeen Isaac for the cover art! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
“Foenem on that Popemobile”
if South Side was still on the air, there would need to be a pope episode
May 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Foenem on that Popemobile”
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This is so well done!
At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded.
I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹
At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded.
I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹
My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...
May 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is so well done!
At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded.
I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹
At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded.
I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹
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Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
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Red Wedding: Trinidad and Tobago After Keith Rowley
Ten years after working people brokered a marriage of convenience with Rowley and the PNM, this red wedding ended in a political bloodbath.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
medium.com/clash-voices...
medium.com/clash-voices...
My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...
May 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...
Tomorrow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Upstate fam—come through for a book talk and a T&T election debrief fresh from today’s polls.
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
April 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Tomorrow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Upstate fam—come through for a book talk and a T&T election debrief fresh from today’s polls.
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
Thank you, World Boss, for ranking me on your list of favorite Caribbean intellectuals. 🙏🏽
April 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you, World Boss, for ranking me on your list of favorite Caribbean intellectuals. 🙏🏽
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“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
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Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
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Poetry Written in the Margins of a Visa Application
reading Linzey Corridon at the intersection of border bureaucracy and soft cultural memory
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April 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
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Friday!
Conversation on @smallaxeproject.bsky.social Keywords project: patería, makoumé, kambrada, friend & family.
With @doctorjc.bsky.social, Krystal Ghisyawan, @julianisenia.bsky.social, @larrylafountain.bsky.social, @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social & Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.
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With @doctorjc.bsky.social, Krystal Ghisyawan, @julianisenia.bsky.social, @larrylafountain.bsky.social, @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social & Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.
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March 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Friday!
My father’s story about class, color, currency, and (anti)communism in the Jamaican 1970s is now the subject of a Storyworth podcast episode. Grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with my Dad on this chapter in Caribbean history. t.co/157jzXndk1
February 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My father’s story about class, color, currency, and (anti)communism in the Jamaican 1970s is now the subject of a Storyworth podcast episode. Grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with my Dad on this chapter in Caribbean history. t.co/157jzXndk1
Two events coming up in Bloomington, March 10-11. See you soon at IU and Red Bud Books!
February 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Two events coming up in Bloomington, March 10-11. See you soon at IU and Red Bud Books!
An unforgettable moment. Thanks again to my comrades Michael Watts and William Balan-Gaubert!
February 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
An unforgettable moment. Thanks again to my comrades Michael Watts and William Balan-Gaubert!