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Antoine J., PhD

1 year

Baltimore, I love you! But I’m pleased to share that I accepted a tenure-track position in African American & African Studies at UC Davis, starting Fall 2024. Still feels surreal. Long live my brother O!

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

The chiropractor really told me that because I’m Black, my bones are naturally denser than other ‘races.’ When I asked what he based that off of, things got awkward lol. Needless to say I’m getting a new chiropractor

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 months

tracy’s man🕴🏾

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tha funniest nigga yk don’t even b joking

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NFR Podcast

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SEXYY RED DRAKE U MY EVERYTHING IN SEXYY WE TRUST 💿 🚨MIDNIGHT🚨

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 months

Good effort, Aubrey. Not enough tho. Back to ‘Not Like Us’

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

Defended my dissertation today… Excited to be PhinisheD! Thank you to my tribe, writing groups, colleagues, baristas & everyone else who helped me along the way! Excited for the next chapter!

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

How on earth did y’all finish your dissertations, teach, apply for jobs & maintain your sanity?!?!?

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

I have an office at Johns Hopkins University. Small deal to some but a big for me & folks where I come from #EastOaklandToEastBaltimore

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

From East Oakland with Love! Dr. Johnson has entered the building

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

Got my first interview for a TT position Tuesday. Wish me luck & any advice is helpful. Ain’t no manual for this when you’re the first in ya family 🤞🏿✌🏿

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

10 months

Not to play oppression Olympics but I honestly thought “first gen” meant first in your family to graduate college, not first to earn a PhD. Color me shocked to learn this today lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 months

What a time to start a tenure-track position

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@NatConTalk

3 years

@JDVance1 at the National Conservatism Conference: "The professors are the enemy." #NatCon

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

Writing a dissertation is hard as hell

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

@kangmunir He’s not. That article relies on data from a racist study conducted in 1960 suggesting that Black & white people’s bodies are innately different

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

7 months

Blessed to see 34! My Mom died at this very age so I’ve always thought about how much, or little, she was able to live & see. Making this the year of intentions✌🏿

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

8 months

@LetsTalkKnicks_ @ScoopB “Check the bio, I fixed the game between Kentucky and Miami of Ohio”

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

when a student writes "the blacks" in their paper

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 months

Saw a former student in Costco who asked for a selfie & said my class was his favorite. Made my day

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 months

@Steez_HH And less than 12 hours later, we got ‘Not Like Us.’ What a time

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

What, to the PhD candidate, is a summer break?

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

Cornel West denied tenure. Student loan debt won’t be forgiven. Lemme go read some Fred Moten to ease the stress

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

Being the first in your family to graduate college is hard. Telling folks I received my degree conferral has only added more confusion 😭. Anyway, I’m officially Dr. Johnson. Time to celebrate for the next few weeks ✌🏿🎉

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

Big sister & I often discuss the fear & hope of living past age 34–the age our mother was when she passed. Sis is 34 and currently battling COVID. Please send positive energy her way. It’ll surely be felt

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

How will I remember my PhD experience? My best friend was murdered 2 weeks after I started my program in 2017, and his killer was convicted today—less than 2 weeks before graduating. Still searching for meaning & missing my dawg

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

11 months

Grades weren’t good enough to get into Berkeley & now I’m giving a talk there. Many thanks to @EderUmmadum for the invitation!Excited to come back home on this business trip!

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 months

Planned to pull a chapter due to lack of sources on my subject who died 20 years ago. I recently found their partner online, shared my research & offered to buy them dinner. They saved EVERYTHING on their widow & is giving me all the documents. Yall have no idea how juiced I am

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

What’s the name of Professor Kelley’s album? Wrong answers only

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

I thought I handled rejection well, then I experienced the academic job market 😭😭😭

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

Honored to be part of Yale’s History of Science & Medicine Fall 2023 Colloquium Series. Forever grateful as this will be my first colloquium talk. Looking forward to the feedback & dialogue. From East Oakland to giving talks at Ivy leagues. Somebody pinch me

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

@adambiggs236 And here I was thinking a simple question would lead to a simple answer lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

@_TooUnderratedX Dilla was in his bag

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

9 months

Famous is subjective but Robin D. G. Kelley coming to my panel and offering feedback meant a lot. One of the reasons I wanted to become a historian

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9 months

What’s your all-time favorite interaction with a famous writer? Mine: I once played Wii Bowling with Denis Johnson at a party.

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

10 months

That Sean Taylor tribute had me in my feelings

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

Sent a full dissertation draft to my committee

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

11 months

Berkeley folks: come hang out with me today! Looking forward to the feedback from the talk and continuing to strengthen my project.

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

I have an interview for a fellowship on Tuesday. Please send positive energy ✌🏿

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

I am hella excited to announce that I accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in the Dept of the History of Medicine & the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Cheers to new beginnings @ihmjhu

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

9 months

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

@awkward_duck

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@Maxiedome

7 years

I spilled baked beans all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted "this nigga eating beans" & everyone laughed.

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

5 years

Might be quote of the season to describe @raiders rookie class. Thank you @VicTafur for excellent journalism 🥃🥃

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

What the hell?

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@Qban_Linx

2 years

Since everybody seems to be on Emily Oster's neck about "Pandemic Amnesty," let's go back a few years and ask whether she deserves "We Should Let Africans die of AIDS Because Treating AIDS Patients Is Too Expensive Amnesty" Her TED Talk from 2007:

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

At one point I didn’t think I’d see 25, now I celebrate turning 33 today. Life really comes at you fast & im enjoying each day more since I started appreciating simple things. Hella excited for this next year!

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

New album cover, courtesy of @AyahNerd . Thank you @Hist_Med_Prof , @barronlerner & the #AAHM2023 committee. Honored to be awarded the Pressman-Burroughs Award. Now, to write the book lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

8 months

Winning the Pressman-Burroughs Award at the @aahmhistmed was a bright moment in a grueling year!

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@Khanstillday

9 months

EVERYONE INCLUDED; Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2023 that you’re proud of?

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

5 months

@Steez_HH Kendrick could probably get SOBxRBE back together & they would punish drake & Cole like this lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 months

@Steez_HH Not to mention the Tyler appearance for Camp Flog Gnaw at Dodger stadium! Everybody ain’t for everybody

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

9 months

It’s been real, Baltimore ❤️✌🏿

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

Wow!

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Take a look into Professor Antoine Johnson's class 'Hip Hop in Urban America' at UC Davis, where he teaches how music is a bridge for understanding important social issues. #Rightnowish (From @KQEDarts )

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

@KyleAMadson I love that he hasn’t beat the niners since Donald said he don’t know who Deebo is lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 months

Today is officially my final day as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins. Can’t express how much I love Baltimore & how thankful I am for my time there. Onwards & upwards ✌🏿

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

5 years

Getting tired of America’s fetishization of impoverished black for feel-good stories. Let’s not get lost in the Kinlaw family’s perseverance & fight to end systemic/structural inequality that creates these conditions he describes.

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Stop what you're doing and listen to @JavonKinlaw talk about growing up homeless. Incredible story from the former #Gamecock . @abc_columbia #SeniorBowl

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Antoine J., PhD

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3 years

Damn, I was not ready for DMX to end this new album with a prayer smh. RIP X #Exodus

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

Had a ball visiting The Colored Girls Museum today. Philly is such a beautiful place

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

@ItsKingsBruh Not to mention on sacred Indigenous land

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

7 months

More good news! Excited for this! ✌🏿

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@ihmjhu

7 months

Sharing the good news that History of Medicine postdoc Dr. Antoine Johnson has been selected as one of only ten scholars inducted into the inaugural postdoctoral class of the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society. Congrats @AJohnsonHist !

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

I'm hella excited to assign my friends' articles/chapters for this Intro to the History of Medicine class. Anyone else tryna get on this syllabus and maybe drop by for the discussion on their work?

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

One year ago today @AAIHS granted me the opportunity to present in front of Robin D. G. Kelley at their 2020 conference. Immediately afterwards everything shut down. Grateful for this memory & the relationships built that weekend

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

@checktherhyme1 @XXL they got a teenager running their account lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

Pleased to share that I am co-convening a conference in Baltimore with my homegirl-comrade, Dr. Jasmine Blanks Jones, from October 5-8. Submissions due 5/15. DM, text or email me if you have any questions!

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

8 months

Got an acceptance email for something where I shot my shot in the dark. Excited for this opportunity. Year off to a good start

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 months

Congratulations to my comrade @AyahNerd on being this year’s recipient of the @aahmhistmed Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award! Black-to-Black winners, baby! #AAHM24

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

5 months

My niece called me devastated that she got accepted into every college she applied to except her top choice. These are new problems I’m not used to. Any recommendations on how to console a 17 year old in these situations?

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

Happy birthday to my beautiful mother! Disadvantage being on the east coast is not visiting her on this day which became a ritual 🌹

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Antoine J., PhD

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4 months

Im sure Aubrey’s angels gonna report me and get me suspended again

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

Black people played a huge role in freeing themselves. Kill the rhetoric of Lincoln being the great emancipator. Read Vincent Harding’s “Soldiers of God’s Wrath”

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

@RapMarathon_ let the record show the Bay started this trend. Larussell been doing this for a while. Ross crib just bigger

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 months

@Steez_HH Given how he predicted homeboy’s moves, broke him down & gassed the track, this might go down as the best diss track of all time. It ain’t get messy until aubs brought up his family. And he even warned him there lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

No, I would not like to view this book on HathiTrust

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Antoine J., PhD

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11 months

@haymarketbooks Greatest white man to ever live

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

Called out Black for the rest of the day & cancelled all academic meetings. Compartmentalizing what’s happening to us in this country is more violence & we can’t normalize this shit

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

6 months

Writing a book chapter, an article for an academic audience and one for a public-facing audience. Y’all ain’t seen code switching until you read these lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

It fees like every student & faculty member I know have hit a collective wall of exhaustion. This business-as-usual approach in a pandemic ain’t cuttin it

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

In the last year my mind went from thinking I’m gonna write the best dissertation known to man, to “the dissertation isn’t a book. Just get it done.” Is that common? Or a result of covid?

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

Spent the morning attending my first dissertation defense, and it was amazing. CONGRATULATIONS DR. @AyahNerd !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

@TeamDreamville @JIDsv @JIDPage @Dreamville Rapsody put him on her album & outrapped him, tbh. And there aren’t many men who are better lyricists than Rapsody

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

they kill us with impunity then punish us for expressing our frustration at their lack of accountability. this place is something else

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4 years

A militia group marches up 7th St. in downtown Louisville. They wouldn’t identify their group, but I know I’ve seen some here before. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville @WDRBNews

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

11 months

October 9th is always hard. Glad I made it back home to visit the cemeteries after missing last year. Happy birthday to my beautiful Mother & rest peacefully to the best friend anyone could ever ask for. I have the two best guardian angels

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

Excited to put on this 🔥🔥🔥 event w/ @_r_johanna on the Young Lords’ takeover of Lincoln Hospital & their contributions to american public health. Join us Wednesday for a convo w/ my brother @compa_cmartinez , @sreverby & Young Lords veteran Cleo Silvers!

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

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@DragonflyJonez We all know Pac’s affiliations with Suge & MOB Pirus. Dude had Pac sayin ‘cuz’ while using his voice artificially. I’m sure Kendrick wanted to slap him when he heard that

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

Picked up a 40 hr/week temp job that pays well but has absolutely no relevance for my dissertation or research interests. Gotta do what you gotta do to provide for your family, but I also think my decision speaks to the limitations of stipends for PhD candidates

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 months

Submitted an article today! Not sure what will happen or how long until it’s out in the world, but it feels good to overcome that fear. Onward & upward

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

9 months

Academia is a weird space if you value community but people think you’re in competition with them, or vice versa.

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

@Becauseofthem The movie centering the informant tho. So tired of hollyweird

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

Caught between “you don’t get the jobs you don’t apply for” and “but damn, ain’t no Black people in their department”

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

4 years

ima start an independent study tracing the epistemology of young folks referring to Black PEOPLE as "the blacks." first question: who raised you? looking for generous donations to fund this study

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

8 months

“I’m in the gym everyday with no offswitch So when they size me up for cricifixion my cross fit” - @phontigallo . One of the all-time greats

Ruben || Check the Rhyme

@checktherhyme1_

8 months

Happy 45th birthday Phonte Whether he's rapping or singing, he never misses. Him dropping one of my favorite verses of this year 20+ yrs in the game is the epitome of longevity. Drop your favorite Phonte album or tracks below 👇

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

Excited to attend #OAH23 this week and have a roundtable discussion with the homies @AyahNerd @byeliseam on our syllabus on anti-Black racism in medicine. be sure to stop by!

Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine

The ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is revealing longstanding American health and healthcare disparities yet to be addressed. While some have described COVID as a "great equalizer," policing,...

www.aaihs.org

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@AJohnsonHist

3 years

Thankful to see 32! Wild to think so many where we grew up didn’t think we’d see 25. Life is just starting & not taking any of it for granted 🤲🏿🙏🏿

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

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And that’s a wrap! Thank you to one of THE OGs in the history of race in medicine, Dr. @KeithWailoo for a memorable week on his groundbreaking research. And thank you @jhuafricana & @JHUmedhum for sponsoring the events. Til next time

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

3 years

@oni_blackstock Can’t help but think of the anti-Black racism Haitians experienced in early 80s with AIDS & myths of the disease ‘originating’ in Central Africa. System remains as racist today as it was 40 years ago

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Antoine J., PhD

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8 months

I feel attacked

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Antoine J., PhD

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1 year

How great was #OAH23 ? Ric Flair stayed at the conference hotel as well lol

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@Jospyda_FYB Exactly what I thought bruh lol

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

2 years

Finally made it to Baltimore! Excited for this chapter

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Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

Thank you everybody for the love! Really appreciate yall! Trying to get back to folks but it’ll take time

Antoine J., PhD

@AJohnsonHist

1 year

Baltimore, I love you! But I’m pleased to share that I accepted a tenure-track position in African American & African Studies at UC Davis, starting Fall 2024. Still feels surreal. Long live my brother O!

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@breakingmkts BLM, a movement, can't stab people. Please don't conflate someone associated with the Movement for Black Lives' actions with an entire movement (strong emphasis on 'movement').

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@marquisele Sadly, this does not surprise me. American medicine and science are ass-backwards m

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