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Editorial Director • University of North Carolina Press • history • Black studies • girlhood studies • carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant

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Did you come across Michelle Scott’s book on TOBA?

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Paul Renfro's avatar Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social
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If you’re looking to review my forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book, I’ve got some galleys to share. Give me a holler if you’re interested! 🗃️

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Candace Cunningham's avatar Candace Cunningham @candacecunningham.bsky.social
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AAIHS is a wonderful, interdisciplinary conference for students, scholars, activists, public historians, archivists, librarians, etc. You should definitely consider it if your research connects to the theme, “Slavery and its Afterlives.” Submit your proposal here: www.aaihs.org/conference-2...

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Rebecca Colesworthy's avatar Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social
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My latest in CHE is now live: How to Publish a 'Timely' Scholarly Book--a little more advice-y w/ dos & don'ts (I know, I know) BUT hopefully there's good, interesting stuff in here re comp titles, mktg questionnaires, & NOT forcing ties to current events. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald 's avatar Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*

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This scandal inspired @colson.bsky.social's Pulitzer-winner The Nickel Boys.

Florida to Pay Millions to Victims of Abuses at Notorious Reform School

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)'s avatar Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social
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A new study by Dan Sinykin and Richard Jean So reveals significant progress in bringing more diversity to publishing. But these changes might already be proving to be fleeting
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH's avatar Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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Awful. Stanford Internet Observatory, a fantastic effort studying online misinfo & related topics, dismantled after "a sustained & increasingly successful campaign among Republicans to discredit research institutions & discourage academics from investigating political speech & influence campaigns."

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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CHOICE’s list includes SASS: Black Women’s Humor and Humanity by J Finley!

SASS is the inaugural book in @uncpress.bsky.social’s new series, MF! Momentary Futures in Black Studies, edited by L.H. Stallings.

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Monumental news, because this street has been closed in one direction since we moved here, and it being open to two-way traffic will make it much easier to get home from the Chapel Hill Public Library! 🤓

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“As has been widely known in the industry for some time, Costco is pulling back on selling books and is now rumored to only be committed to stocking them during the holiday sales period, from September to December.”

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Winkler coming with fire in SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN AND OTHER HERESIES. This authorship debate has more drama than a Real Housewives reunion! Scholars who ignore literary references that raise the authorship question “must, in short, commit literary malpractice.”

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Wow! Happy work anniversary!

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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Have an amazing time!!!

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Eladio Bobadilla's avatar Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com
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Did a wolf write this?

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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"Nuanced and creative...an enlightening and rigorous examination of sass as a means of asserting one’s power in an oppressive world. It’s an insightful study of the politics of humor." - Publishers Weekly on J Finley's forthcoming book SASS (@uncpress.bsky.social)

#MFseries

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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I'm humbled and excited to share the news that I have the opportunity to lead the @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions department in the role of Editorial Director.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The Texas GOP might recreate the old schemes that segregationist Democrats used to shut out urban voters & let white rural conservatives dominate politics.

The Warren Court struck those schemes down, but the Roberts Court seems ready to roll the clock back.

open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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The neoliberal urge to turn systemic problems into personal choices and austerity disguised as consumerist choice/personal responsibility is only ramping up. This is just a thinly veiled attempt to start a process whereby reading and producing new knowledge etc is seen as an economic drain.

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Matthew Noe 's avatar Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social
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"... librarians in the US did not wake up, head to work, and wonder, What are the chances I’m going to be charged with a crime for letting someone take out a book today? But thanks to GOP state legislators, that’s now become a legitimate fear."

www.vanityfair.com/news/17-stat...

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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Families of the Uvalde mass shooting victims file lawsuit against the makers of the “Call of Duty” video game, the makers of the AR-15 and Meta The suit alleges the companies partnered to market the weapon to underage boys in the games

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)'s avatar Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social
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Domestic violence in the home presents its own challenges, but what about the state-sanctioned violence that Black women have to contend with either in the form of militarized police brutality showing up on their doorsteps or the ongoing slow violence of poverty?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8rM...

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Armed vigilantes in TX and AZ are collaborating with law enforcement, who have sometimes failed to arrest or charge them—even when vigilantes were filmed committing crimes in front of officers, or when police documented violations. With @azcir.bsky.social:

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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“Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data”

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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Republicans are trying to take away and criminalize the right to make decisions around our own health, whether that’s the right to wear a mask or the right to have an abortion. Unacceptable.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Here are the Duke anti-genocide commencement protesters demands and rationale.

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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“With hundreds of thousands of families fleeing the floods, the disaster - which has killed at least 147 people, with 127 still missing - could touch off one of Brazil's biggest cases of climate migration in recent history.”

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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UNC trustees voted this morning to reallocate the university's $2.3 million DEI budget to campus police. Budget vice chair: “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination. We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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“The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, the question of relations with apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war.”

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Andrew Fleischman's avatar Andrew Fleischman @nobodyinteresting.bsky.social
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UGA law school has a First Amendment clinic. That clinic helps file open records requests. But when it sought information about Attorney General Chris Carr's baffling RICO charges against Cop City protesters, the open record request center was shut down.

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Dr. Catherine Kehl's avatar Dr. Catherine Kehl @tylik.bsky.social
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The UNC Board of Trustess just voted to move all funding for diversity, equity and inclusion to the police. It's the kind of thing you'd think was satire, but it's not.

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Dawn Durante's avatar Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social
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It did this like 2 years ago, and did not regret it. (Which I think says more about me than the show. 😂)

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Katherine (Kate) Rye Jewell's avatar Katherine (Kate) Rye Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social
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Thrilled to report that Live from the Underground is a runner-up for the American Journalism Historians Association Book Award!

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Sarah J. Jackson's avatar Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social
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Ok saying this as measured as possible. Rather than gaslighting us about safety, violence, and disruption. It would be nice if uni admins would just be honest that they want the green spaces cleared for commencement/alumni weekends and that they are scared of right wing congress people and donors.

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