Jenny Shaw

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Historian. All things early modern Caribbean. The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery coming December 2024 with UNC Press. Order here with 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%: https://tinyurl.com/2p9bn8yv. She/her.

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I am beyond devastated at this news, for the archivists, for local scholars, for the people who come to research their family histories, for the Caribbean. It is such a loss 💔 barbadostoday.bb/2024/06/18/h...

Historic documents destroyed in fire at Archives Department - Barbados Todaybarbadostoday.bb A fire sparked by a lightning strike just before midnight destroyed a two-storey block at the Archives Department which housed major historic documents. Chief archivist at the Barbados Archives Depart...

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I don’t think it’s anyone’s duty to personally observe the heinous images coming out of Rafah right now but I do wish U.S. TV did fewer panel discussions debating “free speech” on college campuses and gave Americans a more honest accounting of the war crimes our government funds every single day.

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Israel is just bombing the shit out of UNWRA displacement center in Rafah so like is that the line in the sand that Biden is talking about?

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Penguin Random House today suddenly fired Lisa Lucas. She's actually one of the pillars in publishing as a Black woman who holds it down to get writers of color & women published & a huge deal, which is why this is in the New York Times. So this is a widely slammed move for diversity in publishing.

Penguin Random House Dismisses Two of Its Top Publisherswww.nytimes.com The departures of Reagan Arthur, of Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, of Pantheon and Schocken, in a restructuring came as a surprise to many in the company.

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Well there it is: Israel can do whatever it wants and USA will always give the thumbs up. Genocide, war crimes, whatever outrage you can think of. This is a blank cheque.

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📢 Applications are now open for our 2024/25 Black Women's History Series Incubator 📢 Selected applicants will receive feedback on their work-in-progress from series editors and other invited interlocutors in their field. Learn more and apply here: uncpress.org/black-womens...

Seeing as I work for a pro football team masquerading as a university, it is fitting that *The Women of Rendezvous* and *The End of College Football* have exactly the same publication date! Pre-order both and get 30% off with code 01UNCP30: uncpress.org/books/ #RollTide @uncpress.bsky.social

Our (@derekcrim.bsky.social) book *The End of College Football*--a polemic against the exploitation and harm of the sport grounded in interviews with former players--is available to preorder on the @uncpress.bsky.social website for 30% off with code 01UNCP30. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Historian Ilan Pappe was detained in Detroit airport on Monday and asked if he was a Hamas supporter, whether he views Israeli action in Gaza as genocide, who his Arab and Muslim friends are in America, and what his solution is to the “conflict.” He is 70.

Catching up on Welcome to Wrexham and they're putting on English subtitles when Derry's James McClean speaks...in English...

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I mean folks in 17th century England would have been SUPER CHILL, I'm sure.

Just trying to imagine if people a few hundred years ago had been here to witness, in the span of a few weeks, an eclipse, an earthquake, a supernova as bright as the North Star, and an unexpected appearance of the northern lights.

Excited to share that The Women of Rendezvous is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press website where you can use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30% 🥳: uncpress.org/book/9781469... @uncpress.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

The Women of Rendezvous | Jenny Shaw | University of North Carolina Pressuncpress.org The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two o...

File under: “No shit, Sherlock” (And don’t call the cops on your students) www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study findswww.theguardian.com Analysis of 553 protests in solidarity with Palestinians between 18 April and 3 May found 97% of them did not cause serious damage

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"49 bodies found at ‘third mass grave’ at al-Shifa hospital, Palestinian officials say. So far, 520 bodies have been recovered from seven mass graves found at three different hospitals across Gaza in recent weeks, Gaza’s Civil Defense agency said." www.scmp.com/news/world/m...

Gaza officials say 49 bodies found at ‘third mass grave’ at al-Shifa hospitalwww.scmp.com So far, 520 bodies have been recovered from seven mass graves found at three different hospitals across Gaza in recent weeks, Gaza’s Civil Defence agency said.

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i just think if a pro-palestinian agitator drove his car into a line of pro-israel protesters and hit one of them that it would be the main story on every news network, front page of every paper and top of the homepage on every website.

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with carwww.thehandbasket.co A student eyewitness tells The Handbasket what he saw.

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Thankfully, someone recorded last night's WKCR broadcast—I highly recommend it if you're curious about what it was like to listen live

I am CERTAIN that you immediately found this already, but just for the record (and for anyone else reading this), here's a recording from the same source of the height of the action (my link was from the aftermath)

WKCR-FM Columbia University radio April 30, 9:14pm-10:41pmwww.youtube.com Student journalists' coverage of NYPD police raid on encampment and Hamilton Hall occupation for Palestine, while the radio station website overloaded due to web traffic (over 13K visitors attempting to stream at the same time). *Recording p2 (10:50pm onward) = https://youtube.com/live/0UmwoUZrhMY https://WKCR.org 89.9 FM in New York. #FreePalestine #BDS #Gaza.

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The Columbia students who delivered such vital coverage of tonight's events on WKCR:

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Lots of reporting, but it’s tricky to even just hold the air as much as this WKCR host is doing.

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the NYPD is also arresting and brutalizing student protestors at City College. i haven’t seen much coverage of this on here but the students at NYC’s public colleges are being subjected to the same violence as the students at Columbia.

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The Columbia students live streaming their radio coverage of the NYPD's actions tonight, which they moved to instagram live after the website stream got choked, are doing braver, more honest, & more important journalism than 90% of the major media outlets www.instagram.com/wkcr_oncampu...

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Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University Chapter For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm

If you aren't listening to these amazing student journalists at WKRC who are doing brilliant work reporting what is happening on campus go do so now. They deserve awards for this work (tho' prob won't get a Pulitzer!) www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

WKCR 89.9FM NYwww.cc-seas.columbia.edu

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One thing the protests have reinforced is the absolutely amazing work that student journalists do every day. Their reporting on what's been happening on campuses around the countries has been indispensable.

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Emory out there making good trouble.

Police use rubber bullets and teargas to break up university protest in Georgia

Police use rubber bullets and teargas to break up university protest in Georgiawww.theguardian.com Multiple arrests at crackdown on Emory University campus encampment focused on Palestine and Cop City

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Today’s professors are not the young people of 1968, they are the young people of 9/11, “weapons of mass destruction,” and Abu Ghraib. Of Katrina and Bush v. Gore. Some of us are neocons and the rest of us know what propaganda, overreaction, and war crimes look like.

Superb reporting, as always, by @teenvogue.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...

The Modern American University Is a Right-Wing Institutionwww.teenvogue.com Just look at who is really in control.

I said it at the other place: don't call the cops on your students. That should be it. That should be all. But I guess we need to add: don't put snipers on the roof; don't call in tactical squads; don't taser. But really, it is all covered by: Don't call the cops on your students.

The Columbia student journalists reporting live on WKCR are doing amazing work 🔥