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Associate prof @CamSociology Decolonizing Sociology, Critical race theory @politybooks Race, decoloniality, world crises @TempleUnivPress Editor Soc Compass BJS

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If your case against divestment is that the university would lose too much money, then universities ought to wonder why they’re profiting from genocide
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And again: no environmental justice without demilitarisation and ending US imperialism
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"Almost half the total CO2 emissions were down to US cargo planes flying military supplies to Israel."
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Stuart Hall: 'postcolonial is not the end of colonisation. It is after a certain kind of colonialism [] in the wake of it, in the shadow of it, inflected by it, it is what it is because something else has happened before, but it is also something new'
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1 year
Check it out 👀
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Temple Univ Press
1 year
Cover reveal! A CRITICAL SYNERGY: RACE, DECOLONIALITY, AND WORLD CRISES, by Ali Meghji, forthcoming this fall.
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4 years
Just received the copies of my book for @politybooks ! Seal of approval from reviewer 2 and very kind endorsements from two scholars whose work I greatly admire #soctwitter
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2 years
The book I wanted to write since grad school. With reviewers 1 and 2
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3 years
Married to my Darling Companion
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4 years
1/ Some tools from critical race theory (CRT) to help understand what's going on
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4 months
Check out my new paper in @SocTheory based on my 2023 @britsoci plenary: showing how anticolonial groups (Zapatistas, BLM, Palestine Action, Cops Are Flops) produce soc theories that can orient professional sociology toward relational forms of analysis
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2 years
Celebrating promotion to Associate Professor 🥳🥳😁🐶
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Nice to have found out I secured a British Academy/Leverhulme small grant and Cambridge CHRG to kickstart my project on the historical sociology of Pan-Africanism 1900-1958
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2 years
You can pre-order The Racialized Social System here! A book I was thinking about since graduate school. Endorsed by three amazing scholars who have shaped my thinking on the topic, including Bonilla-Silva, whose work first introduced me to this approach
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4 years
In case anyone is writing a paper on white identity politics in US, and the insistence on not wearing masks. Please feel free to use the paper title 'White Skin, No Masks'
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4 years
Just accepted! Looking forward to seeing what people make of it
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I am looking to commission some more pieces on *Race and Class* for the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism. If you are interested or know people who are interested please do reach out #soctwitter
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1 year
Berlin people, I will be there at beginning of July if you are around!
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3 years
Very excited to be joining Sociology Compass as a co-Editor-in-chief. I will be overseeing the new RESEARCH ARTICLES section which we are now accepting! Editorial board positions now available!
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ali meghji
5 years
‘I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea... Not a single tea plantation exists within the United Kingdom. This is the symbolization of English identity... There is no English history without that other history’
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Stuart Hall would have been 87 today.
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Tonight at UCL. I'll talk about the need for sociology to reject methodological nationalism, learn from publics, and to embrace historical method + reject methodological presentism. Presentists want to call Gaza a conflict rather than a colonial genocide
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3 years
First edition came out two years before Grey’s Anatomy — and still going strong… the book that pushed me to graduate study and CRT more broadly
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2 years
My flight to NYC has been cancelled so I can't go to the Schomburg Center in Harlem. If anyone near is available for five days' (paid!) work please do get in touch with me! It requires just photographing archive documents for a research project #soctwitter #academictwitter
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9 months
Release day! With endorsements from the amazing @ManuelaBoatca and Zine Magubane #soctwitter
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I reviewed George Steinmetz's brilliant Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought here: in short: a tour de force in the historical sociology of sociology, challenging some of the anti-sociological takes on decolonizing soc #soctwitter
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3 years
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Two years ago today 😎
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3 years
Trying to write a book while...
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'Decolonising [] has become the new lexicon in [] British universities [] it is estimated that British Universities collectively invest almost £500m in companies which are complicit in Israel’s colonisation of Palestine' @decolonialcommi in 2022:
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The idea of 3 year phds is also obscene if you want to train academics
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9 months
Graduate programs in the Uk are increasingly cash cow programs for universities than meaningful spaces of knowledge production
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3 years
Alert: I am starting a YouTube channel where each episode will have a guest. We will play Fortnite duos and chat about your area in sociology. Please DM if you are interested in taking part, it is intended to engage some younger people in key themes in sociology. @CamSociology
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5 years
Reviewer 2 approves of this newly released manuscript
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3 years
My first time in a shop window!
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University Bookshop
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Here you go @HarshadKeval you’re back where you belong - on campus & in our bookshop window! Guest Lecture 28/04/21
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2 years
A critical synergy sent off to the world of production. Coming to you hopefully next year with Temple! An interplay between CRT and theorists of the decolonial tradition 😎🥳
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3 months
Looking forward to being in Chicago for the first time later this week! talking about this paper:
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6 months
Co-authored chapter on 'race and racism' in Elgar handbook of political sociology with @SeethaTan . we show how classical sociologists of race (e.g. Du Bois) were de facto political sociologists (but also force us to rethink tenets of classical pol-soc)
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Goldsmiths have the most innovative sociology department in the UK. Goldsmiths Management's plan to attack sociology, and other depts, is the latest in UK higher ed's campaign of anti-intellectualism #notadonedeal
@EmmakJackson
Emma Jackson
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Goldsmiths Management have come back to us after consultation and still plan to make many of us redundant- 133 people. But it is #notadonedeal . Ways to support us. 1. Make a noise! Join this mornings Twitterstorm 2. Donate here to the support fund
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4 years
@AyoCaesar That’s because they weren’t paying her for a workshop...
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2 years
I reviewed Hall's selected writings on Marxism, and on Race and Difference, leading to some reflections on 'Johnsonism' and 'Starmerism'. highlighting Hall's emphasis on lateral analysis: ‘the connections which race contracts with other things in society'
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ali meghji
3 years
I wrote something about decolonizing the curriculum here 👇🏽
@novaramedia
Novara Media
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Decolonisation isn’t “taking bits out” of history, as one minister recently put it. It’s filling in the gaps, writes @alim1213 .
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ali meghji
9 months
Graduate programs in the Uk are increasingly cash cow programs for universities than meaningful spaces of knowledge production
@simonjpotter
Simon Potter
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Significant drop in future funding announced for UK Arts and Humanities PhDs - 'AHRC expects to fund one quarter fewer PhD students, reducing from 425 to around 300 new studentships per year by 2029 to 2030.'
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3 years
Yooo my book cover 😂
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The attack on arts, humanities, and soc sciences increasingly disturbing. It's not just Kent making these decisions, and not just arts/humanities/soc sciences at risk, but the whole of UK higher ed. They are turning universities into trainee schemes for tech bros and consultants
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Latest news from Kent. To go: Anthropology, Art History, Journalism, Modern Languages, Philosophy..
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1 year
My BSA plenary is online here, where I explore what sociology can learn from anti-colonial, abolitionist sociological movements! reach out by email if you prefer the written script!
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ali meghji
4 years
now with a webpage! Hopefully a useful resource to intro to sociology, social theory, postcolonial sociology courses #soctwitter
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@10DowningStreet @RishiSunak Abolish tuition fees not university programmes
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1 month
I have written to university administration asking if they will take these student and staff concerns seriously. Urging all other Cambridge ppl - especially permanent faculty - to also convey the urgency of this situation, and the necessity of divestment for a free Palestine 🇵🇸
@cam4palestine
Cambridge for Palestine
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How the University of Cambridge facilitates the ethnic cleansing of Palestine 🧵
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Doing archival work today from home... from Du Bois: 'The colonial system caused ten times more deaths than actual war [...] Poverty and extreme poverty in colonies was a main cause of wealth and luxury in Europe’
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Early BJS papers reflected the colonial interests and anxieties of the collapsing British empire. As one of the four co editors with @SamFriedmanSoc @aaronsreeves and @RebsFE we hope, among many things, to reflect the interests of post/decolonial social scientists
@BJSociology
British Journal of Sociology
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We're thrilled to introduce our latest addition to the editorial team, @alim1213 from @CamSociology . Ali's research bridges critical race theory and decolonial thought, exploring the convergence of epistemological, methodological, and empirical approaches. Find out more⬇️
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@ShawntaeMitchum In this book countless race scholars, inc Aldon Morris and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, talk about how their PhD projects didn't define their overall research careers (especially because the field of sociology itself changed / needed to be changed) :)
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Short king representation today on the vogue insta
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1 year
Talking ice cream, zapatistas, and social theory in Gent two days ago 😎
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4 years
An early birthday gift! 5 years from idea to paper 🥳
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ali meghji
4 years
Finally got around to submitting this paper after beginning to write it (in my head) 5 years ago... not particularly happy with it, but DM if you want to take a look... #soctwitter
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Christmas cuddles from Maisie
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BJS have now published my critical race theory people in an issue. It stems from when I started graduate studies and came across Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's racialized social system approach
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Most colleges don’t even let minoritized staff and students in without 100 forms of ID 🤦🏾‍♂️😄
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Jesús Cháirez-Garza
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Profs from Cambridge claiming student encampments create exclusionary spaces in unis. Bruh, in Cambridge colleges students are not even allowed to step on the grass...
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Chilling at BJS conference last week with soon to be dr @sophiemarie_ng and tequila 🧂we’ll all be citing her for years to come 🙏🏽
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Thank you @CurrentSociolog 🙏🏽
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Current Sociology
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October comes with a new #SociologistOfTheMonth 👏 Read Ali Meghji's article on #CRT and #decolonial thought #FreeAccess 🔎 @alim1213 @CamSociology @Cambridge_Uni
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4 years
One year of growth
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@PriyamvadaGopal My favourite invite was ‘This House believes Britain has successfully managed race relations’ 😂🤣
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It is beyond ridiculous that people applying to temp posts often have better CVs than the professors interviewing them. Uk academia needs extreme change VERY soon
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"Precarious academic jobs (which are often more exploitative than developmental) stunt the intellectual and professional growth of ECRs. It is difficult for anybody to engage in creative research when placed in short-term positions with limited autonomy"
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Spotted at #ess2024
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Starting tomorrow with @jana_bacevic on epistemic positioning and epistemic injustice. Exploiring questions like 'Must Black and minority ethnic academics write on "race"?' and 'Who gets cited in bibliographies, and who gets credited in acknowledgments or footnotes?' Open to all!
@CamSociology
Cambridge Sociology
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Save the dates! This year's Sociology Seminar Series, convened by Dr @alim1213 ⬇️ Tuesdays 12:30-2pm (UK), via Zoom for students and livestream for members of the public
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Solidarity with the brilliant @Jairo_I_Funez , who was and is not afraid to speak truth to power. May we all do the same!
@DrDadabhoy
Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬
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Speaking out for justice should not be risky, but it is. @Jairo_I_Funez was suspended for supporting Palestinian liberation in clear violation of the principles of academic freedom. We need our institutions to meet this moment.
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@CamSociology
Cambridge Sociology
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Save the dates! This year's Sociology Seminar Series, convened by Dr @alim1213 ⬇️ Tuesdays 12:30-2pm (UK), via Zoom for students and livestream for members of the public
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I am on sabbatical and will be in the US @HutchinsCenter for March 2024! HMU on am2059 @cam .ac.uk if you're interested in a talk on my book 'race, decoloniality, world crises' @TempleUnivPress or on my current archival work on anti-colonial roots of Black sociology #soctwitter
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Great quote from Stuart Hall
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God is great and the first draft is done! From Trump to Du Bois 🥸🙃
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Brontë wondering if she’s allowed to go to her first picket tomorrow for her first birthday 🎂
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What a brilliant experience to be able to present this plenary today, covering du bois to bob dylan, at #britsoc23 - it’s been an amazing conference bringing together amazing people
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Thinking of organising a rapid response to this in Soc Compass. Not sure if adds fuel to the fire or if unwarranted. Thoughts welcome!
@jgo34
Julian Go
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On the Theory & Society scandal: this is not a coup of ‘science’ over ‘non-science’ or data-driven sociology vs. non-data sociology. T&S had been publishing theoretically informed and rigorous social science for decades. This is a takeover by a wing of sociology…1/8
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Better than any picture ever taken
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Problem is not just Sunak - too many think you can STEM your way out of crises. Eg in climate. Again Santos speaks the truth - coloniality prevents the North from thinking in non colonial terms
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People at #ASA2023 don’t forget to have a quick look at the @TempleUnivPress stall to catch a preview of this (in print maybe next week!)
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2 years
Ruha Benjamin in Cambridge let’s go 😎
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Kamal Munir
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Looking forward to @Cambridge_Uni Annual Race Lecture to be delivered in person by Prof Ruha Benjamin @ruha9 from @Princeton on 2 November at 17:30. Promises to be excellent. Please plan on attending in person. Register here:
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So unbelievable to interview Angela Davis today with @TanishaSpratt ! @CamSociology #soctwitter
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6/ Conclude with this point. Racism exists because some people benefit from its existence. As Bonilla-Silva puts it: 'Therein lies the secret of racial structures and racial inequality the world over. They exist because they benefit members of the dominant race.'
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David Cameron launched full assault on ‘multiculturalism’ (eg 2011 Munich speech), expanded prevent, expanded carceral apparatus in schools, and plunged generations into poverty. No social progress here… 🍆 🐖
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1 year
Chilling yesterday at #britsoc23 @politybooks
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One last event before heading home: ‘Peace is dangerous’: Du Bois’ theory of colonial post-fascism | Department of Sociology
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two years ago today! @tanisha_jemma
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Please join on 26th Feb 10AM for a *Decolonizing Sociology book launch* on Twitter! Would love to hear your thoughts + questions and I will be tweeting out a thread via @DecolSocCam of the main themes I cover in the book! @CamSociology @politybooks
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3 years
When you have a surname that isn’t Smith or Jones 😂
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Saturday night snuggles with Maisie cakes
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4 years
The irony in trying to make a career from reactionary criticisms to critical race theory, while misunderstanding the CRT point that racism isn’t racial prejudice 😬🤷🏾🤦🏽‍♂️
@danielcblight
Daniel C. Blight
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“Professor”
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We were told today that Maisie has helped a little child overcome her dog phobia. Well done Maisie!
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Allison Davis on Du Bois 👀 ‘women always regarded him as rude and pompous’
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Gracefully watched over by Stuart Hall, who of course features in the book
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ali meghji
10 months
Thanks @victorerikray for inviting me to share the podium with some amazing intellectuals to talk CRT at #ASA2023
@danielrmorrison
Dan Morrison
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Very excited to see @alim1213 here at #ASA2023 on the CRT invited panel.
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4 years
Coming soon, open access!
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3/ It's important to then think of racism not as something 'getting better' over time, but as something built into the foundation of society (present and past). Racism is not an issue of 'bad apples', but of the roots, soil, fertiliser, and shaky trees.
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