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Oh yeah, I had a book launch event a few days ago.
"The Shades of Black Folk" is available everywhere now.
It trace the history of colorism in black America from the late 1700s to today.
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Robert L. Reece, PhD
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Robert L. Reece, PhD
@PhuzzieSlippers
Associate Professor, UT-Austin (race/slavery/colorism/fatness). Leftist, sociologist and quantitative historian, writer, gamer, artist, athlete, Mississippian.
- "tHiS cAnT bE tHe SaMe HeAt We PlAyEd In As KiDs" It's literally not. The world is much warmer now. Climate change is here. It's not a joke. Heat kills people. Now what are we going to do about it?
- Slavery was SO MUCH worse than people imagine. I wrote my dissertation on slavery and it is incredibly traumatizing. In grad school I had to dramatically shift my entertainment habits to cope. No more dramatic or realistic shows and movies. Just escapism.
- I pay RAs $25/hr.If I am required to pay undergrad RAs $15/ hour, I will definitely hire fewer of them. Silver lining: less paperwork for me.
- Replying to @PhuzzieSlippersHonestly, slave economics was one of the worst parts for me. Imagine someone buying you on a payment plan. Imagine someone using you as collateral for a loan. Imagine getting repossessed. It was a whole other level of dehumanization for me.
- My uncle tested positive a while back. He also has had severe asthma for as long as I've been alive. He said he was laying on the floor short of breath, too tired to even reach for his phone to text people that he wasn't dead. And the hospital wouldn't take him.In consultation with my doctors, I checked myself into Morristown Medical Center this afternoon. While I am feeling good and only have mild symptoms, due to my history of asthma we decided this is an important precautionary measure.
- Replying to @PhuzzieSlippersSlave narratives, accounts of lynching, civil war aftermath...brings me to tears still.
- No one will be prouder of you for having a PhD than an old black person you don't know.
- I have 4 degrees and this is my first time at a university commencement...because work made me. ๐คฆ๐ฟโโ๏ธ
- I'm just a professor. Who is ending class early Because I have to poop.
- Reminder that the "micro" prefix in "microaggression" isn't a measurement of the size of the slight. It means it happens at the "micro" level, ie between individuals. This is in contrast to the "macro" level, which refers to social structures and institutions.
- Replying to @porquereeaI think the most accessible one that comes to mind is "The Half has Never Been Told" by Edward Baptist. It's a little more niche, but I've also enjoyed a collection of slave narratives from women called "Far More Terrible for Women."
- Only Americans will watch their country cut power to people in single digit temperatures and still delude themselves into believing they live in "the greatest country on Earth."
- Replying to @sunstarsysNow you suck my dick. How bout that?
