I’m teaching an online 7.5-week course on AfAm history since 1865. I’ve dedicated two weeks to the Civil Rights/Black Power Movements. Needless to say, I’m struggling. Since I can’t teach ALL the things, what, in your opinion, is non-negotiable?

It’s only supposed to be 100 degrees today and I feel like skipping! #AZSummer

I done finished it. Over 10 years of research, 7 years of writing, and a whole bunch of tomfoolery in between. 😊

American belonging is often not an option for us. Nor have we always wanted it to be.

Canciónes de la resistencia.

Kevin Kruse blocked me. He doesn't like it when other historians present him with evidence.

Two photos.
1973: Mexican Americans protest after Dallas police killed a 12-year-old boy.
2025: Protesting the crimmigration system that targets Latinx communities.

You definitely need to be yelled at. Read some books on the racial construction of Mexicans/Mexican Americans in the US and then report back. If you still don't get it, there's no helping you. You have the information right in front of you, and as a historian, you should know and do better.

Just finished outlining the conclusion for my book. It only took ten years of research and writing for me to figure it out. 😆🤦🏽‍♀️

I've been reading, writing, and revising so much that I tried to start my car with my house key and then kept spelling "theries" instead of "theories"-- omg what is my brain? It tired.

I'm trying to write my book, but my 8-year-old keeps interrupting to ask ridiculously important questions, like, "Who would win in a battle between an eagle and a velociraptor?" and "What color does purple and orange make?"

It's only day one of spring break. 🫠

Stop. Sending. Me. Emails. Unless it’s to give me a million dollars. Kthx.

It's taken now seven years and eleventy billion drafts to finally figure out my SNCC and NWRO chapter. The research I'm most excited about is always the hardest for me to write.

Does adulthood mean spending over a grand for a trip home that I didn’t even enjoy? Happy holidays or whatever.

Have I been christened with my first faculty “screaming match” meeting? Yes. Did I also spend two hours writing an email about it? Sigh, yes. 🥴

A student today thanked me for sending over some book recommendations “from the 1900s” for their historiography paper. For the record, the books were published in the 80s and 90s. 🤣

"If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
Viva la revolución.

It is suuuuuh good.

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