Willie Mack
@wmack3212.bsky.social
Asst Prof Black Studies. Research on the carceral state, Black immigration, US history. Book under contract with UVA press on US/Haiti during the Cold War out 2026. Whoop whoop!
Academic friends, I have had an article accepted for publication by a very prominent journal. However, they won’t be able to publish it till 2027, most likely 2028. Should I wait or try another less prestigious journal?
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Academic friends, I have had an article accepted for publication by a very prominent journal. However, they won’t be able to publish it till 2027, most likely 2028. Should I wait or try another less prestigious journal?
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The most recent No Kings march will hopefully be the last. A Democratic Party get out the vote effort is a show that obscures and obstructs the real work of organizing. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social.
www.blackagendareport.com/no-kings-and...
www.blackagendareport.com/no-kings-and...
No Kings and the Lure of Spectacle | Black Agenda Report
The most recent No Kings march will hopefully be the last. A Democratic Party get out the vote effort is a show that obscures and obstructs the real work of organizing.
www.blackagendareport.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The most recent No Kings march will hopefully be the last. A Democratic Party get out the vote effort is a show that obscures and obstructs the real work of organizing. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social.
www.blackagendareport.com/no-kings-and...
www.blackagendareport.com/no-kings-and...
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You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
August 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
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Willie Mack ( @wmack3212.bsky.social ) is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
August 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Willie Mack ( @wmack3212.bsky.social ) is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Something I recently wrote on immigrant restrictions, nativism, and anti-Blackness:
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
Haitians at the Border: The Nativist State and anti-Blackness
The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to e...
www.hks.harvard.edu
March 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Something I recently wrote on immigrant restrictions, nativism, and anti-Blackness:
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
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Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism
Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine
Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine
Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
February 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism
Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine
Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine
Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.
February 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.
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The headline doesn't do the article justice.
Trump's admin is arguing that anything like Black Student Associations, Black History Month events, programs to retain minorities, etc are illegal and worthy of defunding the school.
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump's admin is arguing that anything like Black Student Associations, Black History Month events, programs to retain minorities, etc are illegal and worthy of defunding the school.
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
www.insidehighered.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The headline doesn't do the article justice.
Trump's admin is arguing that anything like Black Student Associations, Black History Month events, programs to retain minorities, etc are illegal and worthy of defunding the school.
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump's admin is arguing that anything like Black Student Associations, Black History Month events, programs to retain minorities, etc are illegal and worthy of defunding the school.
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
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Recent PhDs! Here's an excellent postdoc opportunity in a super cool city with some pretty awesome colleagues.
krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced for 2025–2027 | The Chloe Center
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2025. Chloe...
krieger.jhu.edu
February 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Recent PhDs! Here's an excellent postdoc opportunity in a super cool city with some pretty awesome colleagues.
krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
Ah, so nice to be back in Missouri….
February 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ah, so nice to be back in Missouri….
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Black history month was born in resistance. We don't need anyone's permission to do the research, to write to read, or to speak. Let's just keep going the work.
February 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Black history month was born in resistance. We don't need anyone's permission to do the research, to write to read, or to speak. Let's just keep going the work.
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"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)
a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
ALT: a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
media.tenor.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)
I wish they made this kind of determined effort to keep guns out of schools
We knew this was coming, yet it is still chilling to read the language of this Executive Order of Indoctrination cloaked as anti-indoctrination. 1/6
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I wish they made this kind of determined effort to keep guns out of schools
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Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.
January 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.
We are a failed state…
January 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We are a failed state…
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The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
January 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Yes, the women in the military is an important issue. But let’s not gloss over why he is being nominated; because he is willing to use the military against Trump’s domestic enemies. He will do what Trump tells him to.
“I'm going to say something politically incorrect but that is a perfectly commonsensical observation:
Dads push us to take risks. Moms put the training wheels on our bikes. We need moms. But not in the military, especially in combat units.”
-Pete Hegseth, The War on Warriors
Dads push us to take risks. Moms put the training wheels on our bikes. We need moms. But not in the military, especially in combat units.”
-Pete Hegseth, The War on Warriors
January 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Yes, the women in the military is an important issue. But let’s not gloss over why he is being nominated; because he is willing to use the military against Trump’s domestic enemies. He will do what Trump tells him to.