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Bryan E Norwood
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Architectural historian. US and Atlantic World in the long nineteenth century. Views my own
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Bryan E Norwood @bryannorwood.bsky.social · Nov 20
Just published an article in ATR:
Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History

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Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History
Elaborating on the techniques that the Black Studies scholar Cedric Robinson uses to write the histories of racial capitalism, this essay outlines a way to approach longue durée architectural histo...
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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bryan Norwood on receiving a 2025 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend for his project, “Constructing the New South: Southern Architect and Building News, 1889–1932.”

Learn more here: liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesin...
Poster with text “The Humanities Institute proudly announces: Dr. Bryan Norwood awarded a 2025 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend for ‘Constructing the New South: Southern Architect and Building News, 1889–1932.’ Full article linked in bio,” and an image of Dr. Norwood.
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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jamellebouie.net
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Save 50% on #NewBook "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage," by Delia Duong Ba Wendel, which contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory such as those that followed the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. #AfricanStudies buff.ly/ofrhNdL
Cover of Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty by Delia Duong Ba Wendel. The cover features a bluish-tinted photograph of Rwandans gathered in a rural field. Some of the people are standing, while others are seated on the ground. One woman leans against a metal barrel. There is a thicket of trees in the background of the photo.
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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bgoldst.bsky.social
The classicists are starting to realize that the ballroom is going to be a very bad, clumsy, overscaled building, columns or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
October 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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sivav.bsky.social
Nobody has wanted to acknowledge this but since 2018 tuition in real US$ has been falling. Plus, available aid has been increasing.

Trump is ending that streak.

Cuts in research and foreign students are gouging budgets, putting the burden on US students.

hechingerreport.org/after-years-...
The good news? College tuition has been going down. The bad news? It’s about to rise again
College students nationwide are facing increases in tuition this fall of as much as 10 percent, along with new fees and rising costs for dorms and dining plans, after a stretch when tuition had been f...
hechingerreport.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
Angola prison used to be a plantation owned by one of the most notorious slave traders in US history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
ICE Opens Immigrant Detention Center in Notorious Louisiana Prison
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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adamlmahoney.bsky.social
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty.

The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
August 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.

But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?
newrepublic.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
Another study backs my argument last night that Cruz and Cornyn are voting to raise electricity prices for Texans with their attack on clean energy.
PRESS RELEASE: Renewables and Storage Will Save Texans $115 Billion Over the Next 15 Years  - Texas Energy Buyers Alliance
Austin, Texas (February 10, 2025) — A Texas Energy Buyers Alliance (TEBA) report released today shows that if the Texas Legislature passes laws that slow or
txenergybuyers.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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jrakove.bsky.social
This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece.

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
washingtonmonthly.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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robertmannbooks.com
We have seriously lost our way as a country. www.nola.com/news/politic...
Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
www.nola.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
Two brothers, ages 8 and 10, stared nervously into news cameras, speaking with quiet determination to a group of onlookers much older than themselves.

“We need our dad back home,” the 8-year-old said.

ICE took custody of their father, Kerlin Moreno-Orellana, that morning.
Children Beg for Father’s Release After ICE Detains Jackson Man
Activists are calling on immigration officials to release Kerlin Moreno-Orellana from ICE custody after his arrest for illegal dumping.
www.mississippifreepress.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
ktla.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here.

(Gift link)
If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he's engendered. Musk's sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character - a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he's seen for the rest of his public life
May 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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marthasjones.bsky.social
I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.
brennancenter.org Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · May 29
Historian @marthasjones.bsky.social & @katemasur.bsky.social, a member of the Historians Council on the Constitution, filed a brief against the birthright citizenship executive order. History contradicts the administration's claim that the 14th Amendment applies only to “newly freed slaves.”
www.brennancenter.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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jwmason.bsky.social
During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...
May 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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mississippifreepress.org
In the days of grief after his wife's miscarriage in 2015, Kasper Erikson forgot to submit an immigration form.

The Mississippi father thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen when ICE arrested him in April.

Now he’s in a Louisiana prison, facing deportation over the 10-year-old mistake.
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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bryannorwood.bsky.social
with Nottoway plantation burning on Thursday, resharing this piece I published in @placesjournal.bsky.social a few years ago on it and the larger ecosystem of tourism, petrochemicals, and incarceration in the Lower Mississippi River Valley

placesjournal.org/article/muse...
Plantation Whiteness and Racial Capitalism on the Lower Mississippi River
Restored plantations, petrochemical factories, and prison labor all reinforce the continuing legacies of racial capitalism along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
placesjournal.org
May 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM