Corey J. Miles
@coreyjmiles.bsky.social
assistant professor | ethnographer of da black south | wrote vibe | Patricia’s son | ΚΑΨ
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One of the best pieces of writing advice I got recently was, “of course you are going to write a smart book, but what else is it going to be.”
October 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of the best pieces of writing advice I got recently was, “of course you are going to write a smart book, but what else is it going to be.”
A lot of academia is just folks trying to perform being smart like long irrelevant questions after talks, unnecessarily critical reviews, & sounding like a journal article in social settings when folks just chilling. There are different ways of being interesting in these settings.
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A lot of academia is just folks trying to perform being smart like long irrelevant questions after talks, unnecessarily critical reviews, & sounding like a journal article in social settings when folks just chilling. There are different ways of being interesting in these settings.
The Newcomb Department of Music in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University is seeking an assistant professor of music (tenure-track) with expertise in the history and practice of Black American music.
September 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The Newcomb Department of Music in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University is seeking an assistant professor of music (tenure-track) with expertise in the history and practice of Black American music.
I can’t let my students get finessed out of their own education. I let them know that when learning feels like a chore it’s not by accident. That feeling is inevitable in a society that undermines critical thinking & rewards complacency. I ask them who benefits from that?
August 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I can’t let my students get finessed out of their own education. I let them know that when learning feels like a chore it’s not by accident. That feeling is inevitable in a society that undermines critical thinking & rewards complacency. I ask them who benefits from that?
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Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.
there is no training to prepare you to deal with the passing of one of your students. so much of our engagement with them is about their future that we take for granted, particularly for Black students, how much is denying them of one
August 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
there is no training to prepare you to deal with the passing of one of your students. so much of our engagement with them is about their future that we take for granted, particularly for Black students, how much is denying them of one
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When I was young, people adultified me to assign me all tesponsibiiity.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
August 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
When I was young, people adultified me to assign me all tesponsibiiity.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
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They're messin' with Texas! How gerrymandering shapes Southern politics.
Plus, a great conversation with Tulane professor @coreyjmiles.bsky.social, who guest-edited this summer's hip-hop themed issue of the journal Southern Cultures.
sites.libsyn.com/576820/ep-15...
Plus, a great conversation with Tulane professor @coreyjmiles.bsky.social, who guest-edited this summer's hip-hop themed issue of the journal Southern Cultures.
sites.libsyn.com/576820/ep-15...
Headlights: Voices from The Progressive South: Ep. 15: Texas and the Gerrymandered South
SYNOPSIS: All eyes were on Texas last week as Republican legislators moved toward drawing new congressional districts, effectively trying to steal five seats from Democratic incumbents. It’s part of P...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
They're messin' with Texas! How gerrymandering shapes Southern politics.
Plus, a great conversation with Tulane professor @coreyjmiles.bsky.social, who guest-edited this summer's hip-hop themed issue of the journal Southern Cultures.
sites.libsyn.com/576820/ep-15...
Plus, a great conversation with Tulane professor @coreyjmiles.bsky.social, who guest-edited this summer's hip-hop themed issue of the journal Southern Cultures.
sites.libsyn.com/576820/ep-15...
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Too many of us have replaced building power with telling our story and being “heard.”
July 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Too many of us have replaced building power with telling our story and being “heard.”
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"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all." James Baldwin 🌸🌸
July 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all." James Baldwin 🌸🌸
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July 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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by Naomi Shihab Nye
by Naomi Shihab Nye
July 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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by Naomi Shihab Nye
by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Every bombed village is my hometown."
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
June 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Every bombed village is my hometown."
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
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Great new issue of Southern Cultures with a bunch of smart writing and thinking about Southern hip-hop!
Stop whatever you doing & check out
@scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse
@scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse
June 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great new issue of Southern Cultures with a bunch of smart writing and thinking about Southern hip-hop!
Stop whatever you doing & check out
@scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse
@scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse
June 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Stop whatever you doing & check out
@scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse
@scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse
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Man. I just got an email saying that Gaza is biggest spiritual crisis for Jews since the Holocaust and like ... the problem in Gaza isn't a Jewish spiritual crisis you guys, it's a fucking colonial genocide.
May 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Man. I just got an email saying that Gaza is biggest spiritual crisis for Jews since the Holocaust and like ... the problem in Gaza isn't a Jewish spiritual crisis you guys, it's a fucking colonial genocide.
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I know this feels right (and flattering). But that man doesn’t hate smart people. He hates people who won’t do what he wants. Smart people comply all the time.
May 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I know this feels right (and flattering). But that man doesn’t hate smart people. He hates people who won’t do what he wants. Smart people comply all the time.
i hate having random conversation with white folks in Ubers & other spaces I can't easily get out. they are going to ask me what i do and when i say professor, we are two questions away from stuff getting uncomfortable
May 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i hate having random conversation with white folks in Ubers & other spaces I can't easily get out. they are going to ask me what i do and when i say professor, we are two questions away from stuff getting uncomfortable
mine ain’t scared 😂
May 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
mine ain’t scared 😂
when our mother died my sister faced so many challenges like “how do you fill out FASFA without having an active parent.” She got a full ride to Chapel Hill & is graduating this weekend. Thank you for trusting me to be your brother. Thank you for loving me even when I didn’t always get it right.
May 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
when our mother died my sister faced so many challenges like “how do you fill out FASFA without having an active parent.” She got a full ride to Chapel Hill & is graduating this weekend. Thank you for trusting me to be your brother. Thank you for loving me even when I didn’t always get it right.
June Jordan demanded we bring back the human to science & humanities long before this supposedly AI crisis. The issue is far much larger than ChatGPT.
May 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
June Jordan demanded we bring back the human to science & humanities long before this supposedly AI crisis. The issue is far much larger than ChatGPT.
as a social scientist who cares about craft & prose the irony in this is that students work is a lot better than what AI can do. we have focused so much on answers & objectivity at the expense of personal voice, slippages, & creativity that we created an opening for AI.
In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
May 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
as a social scientist who cares about craft & prose the irony in this is that students work is a lot better than what AI can do. we have focused so much on answers & objectivity at the expense of personal voice, slippages, & creativity that we created an opening for AI.
“I question how bearing witness to the violence this country has done to my community primed me to bear witness to the violence it does elsewhere?”
On being southern Black American in an going global crisis.
On being southern Black American in an going global crisis.
The Responsibility of Being Black - শুদ্ধস্বর
“I have lied to myself about how American I am. Now, I want to tell the truth. That may be the Blackest thing I can do.”
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May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“I question how bearing witness to the violence this country has done to my community primed me to bear witness to the violence it does elsewhere?”
On being southern Black American in an going global crisis.
On being southern Black American in an going global crisis.
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
~ Lucille Clifton
~ Lucille Clifton
April 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
~ Lucille Clifton
~ Lucille Clifton
we shouldn't have to compete for empathy. if talking about Gaza, Sudan, immigrants, or anyone who has had to fight for their existence makes me as a southern black man less free - i'm not sure freedom was ever possible in this country.
April 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
we shouldn't have to compete for empathy. if talking about Gaza, Sudan, immigrants, or anyone who has had to fight for their existence makes me as a southern black man less free - i'm not sure freedom was ever possible in this country.