Pamela Zabala Ortiz
@pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social
She/her/ella • Afro-Latina Scholar and Sociologist • Assistant Professor • Studying race making, identity, and belonging • Boston • 📚☕️🇩🇴
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“We’re Expected to Be Homogenous”: Contesting Latinidad and the Myth of Panethnic Inclusion - Pamela Zabala Ortiz, 2024
The construction of Latines as a racially homogenous group in the U.S. obscures the various contestations and negotiations that differently racialized Latines u...
journals.sagepub.com
My newest paper, "'We're Expected to be Homogenous:' Contesting Latinidad and the Myth of Panethnic Inclusion," is now available online.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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BREAKING: Federal agents detained at least three people in Durham on Tuesday, chasing them through a shopping center parking lot as stores locked down and shoppers fled.
“They’re Just Kind Of Grabbing People”: Fear Grips Durham As Federal Agents Arrive
Federal agents detained at least three people as volunteers mobilized to track the agents through Durham.
indyweek.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BREAKING: Federal agents detained at least three people in Durham on Tuesday, chasing them through a shopping center parking lot as stores locked down and shoppers fled.
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I have…thoughts.
Emotionally unprepared to see Wicked: For Good tonight. 🥲
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I have…thoughts.
Emotionally unprepared to see Wicked: For Good tonight. 🥲
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Emotionally unprepared to see Wicked: For Good tonight. 🥲
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Email 1: Can I Say Black?
Email 2: Can I say Black American?
Email 3: Can I Say Black American Politics?
😂
Email 2: Can I say Black American?
Email 3: Can I Say Black American Politics?
😂
I would send them 700 requests per lecture
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Email 1: Can I Say Black?
Email 2: Can I say Black American?
Email 3: Can I Say Black American Politics?
😂
Email 2: Can I say Black American?
Email 3: Can I Say Black American Politics?
😂
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
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"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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V. 48, i. 15 is now live!
The #SpecialIssue The 2024 Presidential Election & The Politics of Race tackles the crisis of the moment with cutting-edge analysis and is a crucial read for anyone looking to understand the role of race in American politics.
The #SpecialIssue The 2024 Presidential Election & The Politics of Race tackles the crisis of the moment with cutting-edge analysis and is a crucial read for anyone looking to understand the role of race in American politics.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
V. 48, i. 15 is now live!
The #SpecialIssue The 2024 Presidential Election & The Politics of Race tackles the crisis of the moment with cutting-edge analysis and is a crucial read for anyone looking to understand the role of race in American politics.
The #SpecialIssue The 2024 Presidential Election & The Politics of Race tackles the crisis of the moment with cutting-edge analysis and is a crucial read for anyone looking to understand the role of race in American politics.
It was great to be back at Duke Sociology this week to talk about my work with the Race Workshop. It was a very full circle moment for me, having once been the graduate student organizer. Durham will always have a special place in my heart.
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It was great to be back at Duke Sociology this week to talk about my work with the Race Workshop. It was a very full circle moment for me, having once been the graduate student organizer. Durham will always have a special place in my heart.
Reposted by Pamela Zabala Ortiz
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
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Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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Melissa is forecast to make landfall on the island of Jamaica Tuesday, with up to 30 inches of rain and a life-threatening storm surge. Category 5 is the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale. n.pr/4np1Bx1
Melissa strengthens to a Category 5 hurricane as it nears Jamaica
Melissa is forecast to make landfall on the island of Jamaica Tuesday, with up to 30 inches of rain and a life-threatening storm surge. Category 5 is the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
n.pr
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Melissa is forecast to make landfall on the island of Jamaica Tuesday, with up to 30 inches of rain and a life-threatening storm surge. Category 5 is the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale. n.pr/4np1Bx1
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My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...
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🎵Digital Black Face🎵
Though I can’t find any sources that Paramount is working with Higgsfield Ai…
It is still absolutely disgusting what you’re able to do with that ai.
They used to ai to replace Robert Downey Jr in “Endgame” with Chadwick Boseman.
They used ai to replace Daniel Kaluuya in “GET OUT” with Brad Pit.
It is still absolutely disgusting what you’re able to do with that ai.
They used to ai to replace Robert Downey Jr in “Endgame” with Chadwick Boseman.
They used ai to replace Daniel Kaluuya in “GET OUT” with Brad Pit.
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
🎵Digital Black Face🎵
I have a new paper in @ersjournal.com, featured in a special issue on the mechanisms of racial hierarchy. The issue is co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
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In this #ERSNew paper, @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social examines the experiences of Afro-Latines as they navigate the hierarchies that emerge within the spaces of both Blackness and Latinidad in the U.S.
Check it here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
In this #ERSNew paper, @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social examines the experiences of Afro-Latines as they navigate the hierarchies that emerge within the spaces of both Blackness and Latinidad in the U.S.
Check it here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I have a new paper in @ersjournal.com, featured in a special issue on the mechanisms of racial hierarchy. The issue is co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
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I have a new paper out in @ersjournal.com, through a special issue on the mechanisms of racism, co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and #EduardoBonilla-Silva. 50 free eprints at link
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...
Mechanisms, smoke and fun-house mirrors: when naming racism is not enough
In this paper, I explain how public discourse around racism can hinder understanding of racist processes, becoming its own mechanism of racism. The general attribution of Flint's water crisis as a ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I have a new paper out in @ersjournal.com, through a special issue on the mechanisms of racism, co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and #EduardoBonilla-Silva. 50 free eprints at link
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...
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Brilliant open access essay of Ethnic & Racial Studies SI on the 'how' of racism. Esp that institutions require 'mechanics' to run--and those 'mechanics' are people!
Bonilla-Siliva & Lewis reorient the discussion in a meaningful way. Power does not operate of its own volition, they suggest.
Bonilla-Siliva & Lewis reorient the discussion in a meaningful way. Power does not operate of its own volition, they suggest.
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Brilliant open access essay of Ethnic & Racial Studies SI on the 'how' of racism. Esp that institutions require 'mechanics' to run--and those 'mechanics' are people!
Bonilla-Siliva & Lewis reorient the discussion in a meaningful way. Power does not operate of its own volition, they suggest.
Bonilla-Siliva & Lewis reorient the discussion in a meaningful way. Power does not operate of its own volition, they suggest.
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Kicking off year 2 on the tenure track.
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Kicking off year 2 on the tenure track.
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Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
Judge blocks Trump’s broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration cannot fast-track the deportations of undocumented migrants inside the country without offering them due process.
wapo.st
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
