Hunter Holt
@hunterholt.bsky.social
assistant prof at muhlenberg college. history/politics of education. roll tide 🐘🌊
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New reporting on the main issues covered in my book The Black Tax. This piece also echoes my argument on the effects of further cuts to local governments at the federal level: that it will make all of the regressive and predatory features of local tax policy and administration much, much worse.
'Highballed': How disproportionate property taxes are forcing some Americans out of their homes
An analysis of real estate data by ABC Owned Television Stations shows that homeowners in majority-nonwhite neighborhoods tend to pay disproportionate property taxes.
abcnews.go.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
New reporting on the main issues covered in my book The Black Tax. This piece also echoes my argument on the effects of further cuts to local governments at the federal level: that it will make all of the regressive and predatory features of local tax policy and administration much, much worse.
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I’m excited to share this work with my network here. In the article, I historicize some of the agents and forces that produced the generationally impactful Parents Involved SCOTUS case (2007). #histed #edusky
Shadow resistance: white parents’ resistance to school desegregation initiatives in Seattle School District, 1950–2007
This article uses historical materialist analysis to analyse and historicise White resistance to school desegregation initiatives in Seattle School District from 1950 to 2007. Relying on existing h...
www.tandfonline.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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A great new #history article on postwar finance and housing policy.
Mortgaging Out: FHA Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America url: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
Mortgaging Out: FHA Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America url: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America
On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig
academic.oup.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A great new #history article on postwar finance and housing policy.
Mortgaging Out: FHA Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America url: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
Mortgaging Out: FHA Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America url: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
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As the secretary of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division F, I have created a Blusky account. If you are interested in history of education or related topics, then give us a follow @aeradivf-history.bsky.social #histed #edhist
July 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As the secretary of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division F, I have created a Blusky account. If you are interested in history of education or related topics, then give us a follow @aeradivf-history.bsky.social #histed #edhist
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Yes.
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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July 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yes.
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This is a dazzling piece by Amy Taubin on the eighth episode of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return.” It’s criticism at its absolute finest. @amyornot.bsky.social
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In Dreams: The Atomic Reveries of The Return
In this exclusive essay, Amy Taubin explores the surrealist dreamscapes of The Return’s extraordinary eighth episode, tracing a line from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca to the nuclear reveries of the Amer...
mubi.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is a dazzling piece by Amy Taubin on the eighth episode of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return.” It’s criticism at its absolute finest. @amyornot.bsky.social
mubi.com/en/program-n...
mubi.com/en/program-n...
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It’s tough not to see the cancelling of Around the Horn as a canary in a coal mine.
Resources being further routed from intelligent, considered debate — and into the industry’s carnival barkers who value being loud with their hot takes over being nuanced.
www.sbnation.com/2025/5/22/24...
Resources being further routed from intelligent, considered debate — and into the industry’s carnival barkers who value being loud with their hot takes over being nuanced.
www.sbnation.com/2025/5/22/24...
‘Around the Horn’ was too perfect to survive a broken, messed up world
Everything good eventually goes away.
www.sbnation.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s tough not to see the cancelling of Around the Horn as a canary in a coal mine.
Resources being further routed from intelligent, considered debate — and into the industry’s carnival barkers who value being loud with their hot takes over being nuanced.
www.sbnation.com/2025/5/22/24...
Resources being further routed from intelligent, considered debate — and into the industry’s carnival barkers who value being loud with their hot takes over being nuanced.
www.sbnation.com/2025/5/22/24...
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I wrote about my new favorite movie.
“Sinners is the whole thesis on what happens when we are drained of the bloody love we pour into our art – and the importance of keeping the bite marks away from our flesh”
andscape.com/features/sin...
“Sinners is the whole thesis on what happens when we are drained of the bloody love we pour into our art – and the importance of keeping the bite marks away from our flesh”
andscape.com/features/sin...
‘Sinners’ brought us home and refused to let vampires take it from us
Note: This article contains spoilers for the film Sinners. The defining scene of Ryan Coogler’s directorial career so far comes about halfway through Sinners in…
andscape.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I wrote about my new favorite movie.
“Sinners is the whole thesis on what happens when we are drained of the bloody love we pour into our art – and the importance of keeping the bite marks away from our flesh”
andscape.com/features/sin...
“Sinners is the whole thesis on what happens when we are drained of the bloody love we pour into our art – and the importance of keeping the bite marks away from our flesh”
andscape.com/features/sin...
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Nice to see all the education research orgs put out a joint statement calling for Congress to safeguard the (Congressionally established) IES and NCES I would have liked to see them underscore the historical dimensions a bit more (surprise!) 1/ www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...
www.aera.net
March 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nice to see all the education research orgs put out a joint statement calling for Congress to safeguard the (Congressionally established) IES and NCES I would have liked to see them underscore the historical dimensions a bit more (surprise!) 1/ www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...
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If you're tracking the administration's claims to "end DEI" a quick thread with the docs.
TL;DR: Admin swings way too wide. Careful readers point out the overreach & the illegality and/or lack of enforceability of their words. Some sue & get temp injunction. Admin rolls back, a bit. 🧵
TL;DR: Admin swings way too wide. Careful readers point out the overreach & the illegality and/or lack of enforceability of their words. Some sue & get temp injunction. Admin rolls back, a bit. 🧵
March 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you're tracking the administration's claims to "end DEI" a quick thread with the docs.
TL;DR: Admin swings way too wide. Careful readers point out the overreach & the illegality and/or lack of enforceability of their words. Some sue & get temp injunction. Admin rolls back, a bit. 🧵
TL;DR: Admin swings way too wide. Careful readers point out the overreach & the illegality and/or lack of enforceability of their words. Some sue & get temp injunction. Admin rolls back, a bit. 🧵
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New Friday Morning Coffee!
Author and historian @mfkantor.bsky.social chats with me about his book DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools.
Listen: www.writersbone.com/friday-morni... @uncpress.bsky.social @badlycooked.bsky.social
Author and historian @mfkantor.bsky.social chats with me about his book DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools.
Listen: www.writersbone.com/friday-morni... @uncpress.bsky.social @badlycooked.bsky.social
Max Felker-Kantor, Author of DARE to Say No — Writer's Bone
Author and historian Max Felker-Kantor chats with Daniel Ford about his book DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools.
www.writersbone.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New Friday Morning Coffee!
Author and historian @mfkantor.bsky.social chats with me about his book DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools.
Listen: www.writersbone.com/friday-morni... @uncpress.bsky.social @badlycooked.bsky.social
Author and historian @mfkantor.bsky.social chats with me about his book DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools.
Listen: www.writersbone.com/friday-morni... @uncpress.bsky.social @badlycooked.bsky.social
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There's a great dissertation by Monica Blair, my fellow UVA grad student, that uncovers the history of segregation academies and their links with the school choice movement. Here's the link: libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...
November 19, 2024 at 11:33 PM
There's a great dissertation by Monica Blair, my fellow UVA grad student, that uncovers the history of segregation academies and their links with the school choice movement. Here's the link: libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...
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I know I’m probably missing a lot of people who just joined the app. If you want to be added just respond and I’ll include you! #histed
November 14, 2024 at 11:24 PM
I know I’m probably missing a lot of people who just joined the app. If you want to be added just respond and I’ll include you! #histed