Yasmina Martin
@yasmartin.bsky.social
PhD, African History, Yale ('25) | decolonization, exile, and transnational anti-apartheid movements
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Yasmina Martin
@yasmartin.bsky.social
· Apr 8
How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s?
Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...
Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...
The Soweto Uprising and South African Exile in Socialist Tanzania
How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s? Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
New for @historywo.bsky.social - a piece on South African exiles in socialist Tanzania, the 1976 Soweto student movement, and the lasting resonance of self-reliance
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Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”
June 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”
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Getting back into the swing of things after many moons of mostly academic writing with this fun piece on African women in the #wnba for @thecontinent.org.
(Rather than overload alt text, get the screen readable version here. It’s a free magazine sent to your phone wa.me/27738056068?...)
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June 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Getting back into the swing of things after many moons of mostly academic writing with this fun piece on African women in the #wnba for @thecontinent.org.
(Rather than overload alt text, get the screen readable version here. It’s a free magazine sent to your phone wa.me/27738056068?...)
(Rather than overload alt text, get the screen readable version here. It’s a free magazine sent to your phone wa.me/27738056068?...)
Excited to present at the @globalsolidarity.bsky.social workshop tomorrow in Malmö!
25 participants from around the world are on their way to Malmö for the second Global Solidarity Network Workshop, which starts tomorrow. We'll spend two days finding connections - across themes, sources, groups and individuals - from Australia and Argentina to Thailand and Zimbabwe.
June 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Excited to present at the @globalsolidarity.bsky.social workshop tomorrow in Malmö!
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📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
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After yesterday’s fiasco at the White House with the South African President - an important piece by
Stanford prof. Joel Cabrita, discussing America’s support for Apartheid & Afrikaners, & the pushing of false claims
time.com/7287684/hist...
Stanford prof. Joel Cabrita, discussing America’s support for Apartheid & Afrikaners, & the pushing of false claims
time.com/7287684/hist...
The Long History of the U.S. Backing White South Africans
The recent welcoming of Afrikaner refugees is the latest chapter in a history of U.S. support for white South Africans.
time.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
After yesterday’s fiasco at the White House with the South African President - an important piece by
Stanford prof. Joel Cabrita, discussing America’s support for Apartheid & Afrikaners, & the pushing of false claims
time.com/7287684/hist...
Stanford prof. Joel Cabrita, discussing America’s support for Apartheid & Afrikaners, & the pushing of false claims
time.com/7287684/hist...
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If your grant was terminated & you are an MLA member (or in a related discipline), please fill out our My NEH Grant Story form. Your story can help inform the actions we are taking to protect the NEH. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If your grant was terminated & you are an MLA member (or in a related discipline), please fill out our My NEH Grant Story form. Your story can help inform the actions we are taking to protect the NEH. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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In Kiswahili “hope” or “courage” is something you give to yourself (jipe moyo).
In most languages, "hope" is something you "have", like a possession. But in French you can also "guard" it, like a letter you never send but always carry. In German, you can "draw" it, like water from a deep well. And in Japanese you can "embrace" it, like a baby in your arms. Beautiful, isn’t it?
April 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In Kiswahili “hope” or “courage” is something you give to yourself (jipe moyo).
New for @historywo.bsky.social - a piece on South African exiles in socialist Tanzania, the 1976 Soweto student movement, and the lasting resonance of self-reliance
How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s?
Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...
Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...
The Soweto Uprising and South African Exile in Socialist Tanzania
How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s? Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
April 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New for @historywo.bsky.social - a piece on South African exiles in socialist Tanzania, the 1976 Soweto student movement, and the lasting resonance of self-reliance
Reposted by Yasmina Martin
Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials.
The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
Tufts University pushes for release of student grabbed off the street by immigration officials
The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
nbcnews.to
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials.
The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
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Postdoc Opportunity!
The Tulane Global Humanities Center, Postdoctoral Fellows
Recent PhDs who explore: port cities, global flows, blue humanities, critical ocean studies, logistics, and/or transnational environmental humanities.
Region and historical period open.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
The Tulane Global Humanities Center, Postdoctoral Fellows
Recent PhDs who explore: port cities, global flows, blue humanities, critical ocean studies, logistics, and/or transnational environmental humanities.
Region and historical period open.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
H-Net Job Guide
www.h-net.org
March 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Postdoc Opportunity!
The Tulane Global Humanities Center, Postdoctoral Fellows
Recent PhDs who explore: port cities, global flows, blue humanities, critical ocean studies, logistics, and/or transnational environmental humanities.
Region and historical period open.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
The Tulane Global Humanities Center, Postdoctoral Fellows
Recent PhDs who explore: port cities, global flows, blue humanities, critical ocean studies, logistics, and/or transnational environmental humanities.
Region and historical period open.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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Yes it’s all fascism right now but holy cricket on a cracker, let’s all God’s children gather round to make fun of Duke being the saddest, most pathetic privileged whiners in the history of institutions:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
Duke Says ‘White Lotus’ Went ‘Too Far’ With School References
In a show that features an array of disturbing story lines, the actions — and wardrobe — of a character have gone “too far” for the university.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Yes it’s all fascism right now but holy cricket on a cracker, let’s all God’s children gather round to make fun of Duke being the saddest, most pathetic privileged whiners in the history of institutions:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
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the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles
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just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.
The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
slate.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.
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We're hiring a new editor. Please share widely!
A New Editor
Contingent is hiring a new editor! This person will join Erin Bartram and Marc Reyes as the permanent third editor for the magazine as we enter our seventh year of publication this spring. We’re looki...
contingentmagazine.org
March 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
We're hiring a new editor. Please share widely!
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glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...
thedigradio.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
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I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/
February 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/
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One great on another. www.ft.com/content/6ed2...
Filmmaker Raoul Peck: ‘Ernest Cole’s photographs were not about artistry, they were about fighting’
The director’s new documentary sheds light on the South African who portrayed the injustices of apartheid and pain of exile
www.ft.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
One great on another. www.ft.com/content/6ed2...
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Delighted to receive a package of bound galleys of my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Out in August.
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Delighted to receive a package of bound galleys of my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Out in August.
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It’s academic interview season so I thought I’d share here what I share with my advisees about campus visits. First up—job talk, then teaching demo, meals. Pan out and pro tip—your job is leave with them thinking of you as an 🔥exciting new colleague who wants to be there.🔥
December 13, 2024 at 11:05 PM
It’s academic interview season so I thought I’d share here what I share with my advisees about campus visits. First up—job talk, then teaching demo, meals. Pan out and pro tip—your job is leave with them thinking of you as an 🔥exciting new colleague who wants to be there.🔥
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Hello new follower! Are _you_ (yes, you!) my new reviews co-editor at the Journal of Contemporary History? We cover the whole world post-1930, get a share of the royalties, and meet once a year in the UK. Original thread with more info (though never mind the language preferences) below:
My reviews co-editor at the Journal of Contemporary History is leaving the journal, and we’re looking for a replacement. The journal has a global span and covers history post-1930 - and the ability to be up to date with publishing in French/Spanish/Portuguese would be a bonus.
November 13, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Hello new follower! Are _you_ (yes, you!) my new reviews co-editor at the Journal of Contemporary History? We cover the whole world post-1930, get a share of the royalties, and meet once a year in the UK. Original thread with more info (though never mind the language preferences) below: