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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

3 years

Happy to announce that today is the official release of my first book, Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change, published by Princeton University Press.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Universities are real quiet right now. No messages, no emails, no invitations to reach out to mental health services, no events about the Israeli war on Palestinians.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Rhetorical question: Why do universities hire consulting firms to conduct anti-racist workshops rather than fund and listen to fund their own faculty experts on racism, white supremacy, and coloniality?

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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I don't trust professors that act like they don't learn from their undergrad students. I have received some of the toughest questions, incisive insights, and generative suggestions from them. It really is a privilege.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Personal update: This Fall I will join UC-Berkeley's Department of Sociology, as part of an interdisciplinary cluster on Latinx scholarship. Very excited about this next chapter! I will miss my amazing colleagues—grad and faculty—at Northwestern Sociology.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

H.R. 8383, the so-called "Puerto Rico Status Act," which passed the U.S. House on Wednesday, has serious problems. Without even touching the elitist and partisan power politics that led to this "compromise" bill, let me note just a few problems (of many more) with the bill. 🧵

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

6 months

I don't know who needs to hear this but your silence will not be professionally rewarded.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

As a Puerto Rican, there is no number I dislike more than 51.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

The United States invaded Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898. They haven't left yet. That's 123 years of U.S. rule and colonization (on top of 400 years of Spanish colonialism). #FreePuertoRicoNow !

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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Du Bois writing on U.S. colonization of Puerto Rico in 1945: “So that the dollars which on paper appear to give Puerto Rico a favorable trade balance are dollars which are never seen in Puerto Rico, but are given by the banks to the absentee holders of shares in industry.”

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

Open Letter: Sociologists in Solidarity with Gaza Sign on and Share!

Open Letter: Sociologists in Solidarity with Gaza

Sociology as a discipline is rooted in a recognition of relationships of power and inequality. As sociologists and human beings, we unreservedly condemn the latest violence against the Palestinian...

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

People that adamantly and unironically claim that "Latinos are not a race" seem to forgot that there are no "races," only populations racialized in historically and contextually specific ways.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Second, and related, the bill is silent on reparations. While it stipulates that Puerto Rico must pay its odious debt no matter what status is selected, the U.S. is under no obligation to address 124 years of violence, exploitation, extraction, experimentation, and displacement.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

My book arrived today. What a long and difficult journey. I only managed to survive it thanks to the kindness, patience, and inspiration of so many. The book is dedicated to my mother, Nellie B. Muñiz.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Fourth, the bill entirely removes the Puerto Rican diaspora from the process. As such, recently settled cryptocapitalists can participate, but colonially-displaced Puerto Ricans cannot.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony. That began, on this day, 124 years ago. Not an event to commemorate but one to remember and resist.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

5 years

Please stop from describing the U.S. as the "mainland" when talking about Puerto Rico. I can't overstate how colonial this language is. Feel free to use metropole, colonizer, empire, but not "mainland," a notion that naturalizes U.S. dominion over the Puerto Rican archipelago.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

First, while its proponents characterize the bill's passage as a move to "decolonize" Puerto Rico, the bill doesn't in the slightest acknowledge the crime of U.S. colonization. Instead, the bill euphemizes it as "the inherent limitations of Puerto Rico's territorial status."

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Is that Jessica la bombalera?

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@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Third, the bill does not acknowledge Puerto Rico's "natural right to self-determination"—to quote one of the bill's predecessors. This omission contradicts international law.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Sure. Look at how Latino agents fixed border patrol.

Jonathan Rosa

@DrJonathanRosa

4 years

I hate it here

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Sixth, the bill's woefully underspecified "voter education" item does not discuss—among other things—how it will address decades upon decades of political repression and stigma against independence and its proponents. There can be no fair vote in such a context.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Lastly, for now, it is quite telling that the U.S. press is calling on it a "statehood bill"—not statehood as in independence but statehood as in annexation into the U.S. empire-state. This is precisely what the pro-annexation party wanted and won with its so-called "compromise."

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

A lot progressives seem to believe that making Puerto Rico the 51st state is a progressive position. No, that’s a colonizer position. If U.S. history tells us anything, “progressive” and colonizer have rarely been mutually exclusive.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

6 months

What a father, what a comrade! Beautiful.

Kawsachun News

@KawsachunNews

6 months

Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸 “I imagine being a father in Palestine.. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Ludicrous how quickly and conveniently some folks cosigned that absurd thread on Du Bois. Right on schedule and no surprises.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

I would love for senior and prominent scholars to issue a statement that defends the academic freedom of graduate students, untenured and contingent faculty that voice opposition to the Israeli state's current genocidal campaign in Gaza.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

UC Berkeley's Department of Sociology will be hiring at the Assistant Professor level this fall. Please consider applying! Open specialization.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

Very honored that "Figures of the Future" will receive the 2023 Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award from @asa_population . Many thanks to the committee! I had hoped that demographers and sociologists of population would engage the book. Paperback coming soon! @PrincetonUPress

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

submitted final revisions for my book. That was rough. Due out next March.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

I now know how I will spend much of the holidays. Reviewing proofs for my book! Crazy to even write that. Due out in May 2021, in case you're interested.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Funny that an outed former "Latina" attorney gets more respect in (some) Puerto Rican left circles than Diaspora Ricans-down-with-the-cause just because they struggle with Spanish. The colonialism is deeeep.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Surely a must read Palestinian Erasure and Dehumanization in Introductory Sociology Texts - Melissa F. Weiner, 2022

Palestinian Erasure and Dehumanization in Introductory Sociology Texts - Melissa F. Weiner, 2023

Settler colonial projects erase Indigenous peoples and their histories to justify expropriation of sovereign land. Educational curriculum plays a central role i...

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

In a middle of a genocidal campaign that has killed over 5,000, some sociologists have decided that the most important thing to do is to draft a counter open letter.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

Persons need not personally identify as "white" nor exist socially as "white" to act as agents of white supremacy.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

10 months

If you are an ABD social scientist focused on Latino populations, please apply to the UC Berkeley Latino Social Science Pipeline Initiative's predoctoral fellowship: Deadline: February 1, 2024

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Genuinely geeked about my new undergrad course prep, Archiving the Barrio. Syllabus forthcoming.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

A week ago: “Let’s be clear,” Mayor Lightfoot said. “An adult put a gun in a child’s hand.” I'm sure she had seen the video by this point. Sickening.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

For several days now, Northwestern professor Barnor Hesse has received a volley of racist and violent emails and phone calls. This is a serious matter. As far as I know, Northwestern's leadership has remained silent. If so, this silence is despicable and unforgivable.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

We are hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor, open specialization, Northwestern Department of Sociology. Deadline Sept. 24. Another position coming!

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Signs of racecraft: expectations that ‘racial’ groups naturally vote in unison.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

8 months

125 sociologists proposed a careful, detailed, ceasefire statement to ASA leadership. Nearly a month later, unable to achieve consensus, ASA issues this ethical and intellectual embarrassment. The struggle continues. For next steps, follow @Soc4Pal .

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Would it trouble NYT to also talk to some non-white scholars on these issues as well?

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

More soon...

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Last night was special. Presenting my book in my community. Much appreciation to the Puerto Rican Cultural Center and the Museum for Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Most grateful to my brother, the brilliant and generous @DrJonathanRosa for the convo and support. What an honor.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

6 months

It is astounding how many U.S. university administrators and scholars are willing to curtail free speech and academic freedom to prevent critique against Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد

@hebagowayed

6 months

We are brilliant and you are small and scared. @USC cancels the Valedictorians speech for what she might say about Palestine. Two pages of cowardice, oppression, silencing. Every day, every minute, I am more angry. Shame! (Reposting because QT post was deleted).

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

One highlight in my first semester teaching at Berkeley is learning that a student independently downloaded my book and through some app listened to it in Snoop's voice. The clip she sent me was amazing!

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Come join the Latina/o Studies program at Northwestern. We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies! Deadline is October 15, 2021.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Perhaps we have transitioned from a Scholar Denied to a Scholar Misread.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Just received my first invite to zoom with a class that is reading my book. I'm geeked, as we used to say. Please let me know if you assign it (or a part of it). I would love to converse with your grad or undergrad class.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

In 1954, a cadre of Puerto Rican nationalists stormed the US capitol building, flag unfurled and pistols pointed upward, to denounce the U.S colonialism; today, white supremacists breach the building to preserve the patriarchal-colonial order of things.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

🧵Latina/o/x Sociology has been around for decades, and has produced much excellent research. Yet, it is rarely—if ever—taught in grad school. To my knowledge, no book or reader exists on its foundations and contributions. I can count the annual review articles with my fingers.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Congratulations to you, whether you’ve submitted a paper for review, got one accepted, got one rejected, or just decided to put one off until next year, if ever.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Rather unsociological take from a sociologist. Maybe it’s time for a inequality and stratification refresher.

Andrew Perrin

@AndrewJPerrin

2 years

Success in academia, as in many other areas, is a function of luck, talent, and hard work. Very few people achieve success without significant amounts of all three, though the admixture varies. That’s why great academic environments are full of hard working, talented [1/]

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

I am geeked! Awesome to share the Mary Douglas book award with @fargreenland and her amazing book! Many thanks to the committee. @ASACulture @PrincetonUPress

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Honored to work with @GCristinaMora , Nicholas Vargas, @center_latinx , and others at Berkeley to expand Latinx-focused social science research and mentorship.

As new Latinx studies programs stall nationwide, Berkeley offers an answer - Berkeley News

Less than 4% of all four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. offer a Latinx studies major, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley

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@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

Over the past 2-3 years, Oxford University Press has released two handbooks on Latin America (sociology and social movements, respectively). As I anticipated, both have virtually NOTHING on Puerto Rico (and only the very slightest on the Dominican Republic). Unjustifiable.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Surprise, Surprise. US police and public officials donated to Kyle Rittenhouse, data breach reveals

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@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Dope new sociological work on "Latinx" identification from @GCristinaMora , @_NicholasVargas , and Reuben Perez.

Who Identifies as “Latinx”? The Generational Politics of Ethnoracial Labels

Abstract. Over the past 5 years, the “Latinx” label has become increasingly popular within academia, politics, and social media. Yet, little is known about

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

I am so honored that the NYU Latinx Project has organized this event and that I will be in conversation with the amazing Cristina Beltran! It is my first book event (book due out July 6). Thank you @arlenedavila1 @janelmwrites @CBeltranNYU .

LatinxProject

@LatinxProjNYU

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Next Wednesday, meet @MichaelRMuniz , Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies at Northwestern University. He'll join us to discuss his book, “Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change.” RSVP today!

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

The bill can be found here:

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@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Sociologists without any reservations or ambivalence about the discipline of sociology are off-putting.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Legal scholar Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus just claimed that Puerto Ricans have had 70 years to freely debate Puerto Rico's status. Willfully erases decades of political surveillance, incarceration, censorship, violence against pro-independence supporters and movements.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

Apply! Apply! Apply! Second Berkeley Sociology Assistant Professor position! Part of multiyear cluster hiring initiative on "(Non)Citizenship." Candidates can apply to both open search and cluster positions.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

6 years

I do not think that Latinx, as an identity label and concept, is beyond debate, but let's not forget it is a response to exclusion. If you are more bothered by the term than the exclusion, then we have nothing to debate.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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Our archive project at the 45th annual Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade Humboldt Park Chicago. Photo credit: Elias Carmona.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

6 months

Pro-genocide sociologists are doing whatever they can to discredit and stigmatize the @Soc4Pal resolution. They will fail.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Any progressive that supports the Puerto Rico statehood bill is not a progressive to me.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Fishing for recommendations for a new grad course I'm designing on qualitative interviewing (including oral history interviews). What would you recommend, article and book wise?

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@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

If I had a choice, I would pick rest and relaxation over a revise and resubmit right now.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

So excited about this! Kathleen Blee, Tianna Paschel, and Susila Gurusami ( @_Dr_Sus ).

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@MichaelRMuniz

6 months

Astonishing that universities would rather arrest their own faculty than simply allow them to protest and protect their students.

Sociologists for Palestine

@Soc4Pal

6 months

Reporting that @gpbaiocchi was arrested tonight in the NYU protests. We stand in solidarity with him and all NYU faculty and students protesting. Free Palestine.

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@MichaelRMuniz

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Waiting on @ASAnews to denounce the arrest of sociologists and sociology students, but unfortunately, it didn't happen in Florida and was related to Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians. So, only silence we get.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

So excited about this grad seminar!

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

First full on book talk, with all the bells and whistles. Cant wait!

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

We’ve lost another giant. RIP Charles Mills.

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@MichaelRMuniz

8 months

Unfortunately, we can’t also agree that the slaughter of nearly 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, should be summarily condemned. ASA should be ashamed of itself.

Dr.barbara risman

@bjrisman

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Protecting the values of academic freedom is a central goal of our professional association.... something we can all agree on.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

A group of scholars and students from Northwestern and beyond have come together in defense of Dr. Barnor Hesse, who has received a barrage of violent and anti-Black messages over the past week. To express your solidarity, please signing this letter:

Open Letter in Defense of Dr. Barnor Hesse

March 4, 2021 Dear Northwestern University President, Morton O. Schapiro, Since February 15, renowned political theorist and Northwestern African American Studies professor Dr. Barnor Hesse has been...

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@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Twitter discourse would have you believing that "Latino" is, somehow, more colonial than other ethnoracial categories.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

My partner just found an old stash term papers I did as a graduate student at UIC years back, papers on the concept of internal colonialism, standpoint theory, state theory, Latina sociology, the nationalization of urban space. Where it all began, sociology-wise.

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This is so fucked up.

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@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

For those on the track: We ain't got no time to wait for tenure.

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@MichaelRMuniz

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The ASA membership has spoken! The @Soc4Pal “Resolution for Justice in Palestine" has passed and become the association's "official position." Nearly 60% of those that voted did so in favor. Grateful for all the colleagues and comrades that made this victory possible!

Sociologists for Palestine

@Soc4Pal

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And the text of the member resolution has been published by ASA on their website here:

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

4 years

Telling the history of U.S. imperialism in Latin America without Puerto Rico naturalizes its colonization, which has been predicated on politically, culturally, and economically severing Puerto Rico from Latin America and the rest of the hemisphere.

Jacobin

@jacobin

4 years

Latin America is not the United States’ “backyard.” It’s the training ground, historian Greg Grandin argues, for periods of imperial retrenchment. But it’s also a region where radical movements have consistently refused to be crushed by US imperial power.

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As a northwestern faculty member, I support this action.

Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW)

@NorthwesternGW

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‼️ WE ARE SICKING OUT JUNE 3-5 BECAUSE THE NORTHWESTERN MAKES US SICK ‼️ PLEDGE TO SICK OUT: OUR DEMANDS: HOW TO SICK OUT: FAQs: #sickoutnugw #universal1yr #austerityissickening

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Imagine responding in this fashion to a letter denouncing a genocidal campaign that has killed over 4,385 persons (largely civilians)—including 1,756 children. Over 1,600 sociologists around the globe—including from Israel—have signed. Add your name: .

Open Letter: Sociologists in Solidarity with Gaza

Sociology as a discipline is rooted in a recognition of relationships of power and inequality. As sociologists and human beings, we unreservedly condemn the latest violence against the Palestinian...

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Amir Goldberg

@amirgoldb

1 year

I was deeply disappointed to read this vacuous statement. It is (1) dehumanizing to Israelis (and implicitly antisemitic), (2) simplistic, (3) self-righteous, and (4) intellectually dishonest. Here’s why:

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Imagine if any of the Chicago area universities made this type of investment.

Veronica Terriquez

@V_Terriquez

3 years

Exciting news at UCLA! We received commitments for 15 faculty lines, 20 postdocs, and research funding in order to increase Latinx faculty representation, success, and scholarship.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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Much more can be said, but I'll end here. News about census undercounts puts in sharp relief a basic but often glossed over point: populations are built rather than born, and the building of statistical populations is a political rather than narrowly methodological enterprise.

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@MichaelRMuniz

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Excited and honored to have a book convo in my community, Humboldt Park, with the amazing @DrJonathanRosa !

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

On today’s reading docket.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

Inviting Berkeley and Bay Area community. **Thursday, October 19** To register:

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Some (more or less connected) thoughts I've been thinking since the Census Bureau announced the 2020 undercount. Mini 🧵

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

2 years

Forgive the self-promotion. You can purchase "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" (along with a ton of great titles) for 50% off until tomorrow, 6/30. Princeton University Press Discount code: PUP22

Figures of the Future

An in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the present

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

1 year

“The claim that the phrase “from the river to the sea” carries a genocidal intent relies not on the historical record, but rather on racism and Islamophobia.”

Yonah Lieberman 🔥

@YonahLieberman

1 year

To Jews and others in the West who think that “from the river to the sea” is a call to annihilate Jews, please read this piece from @YousefMunayyer in @JewishCurrents :

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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Sociologist @reubenjmiller 's new book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration," arrived and I dove in. From the jump, it is evident that this is a special book. A must read on the lives of those subject to "supervised society." Get your copy!

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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We live in a world where the Democratic-front Center for American Progress assumes a strong position on Gaza than the American Sociological Association's Executive Committee. And some say sociology is a "woke" discipline.

🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻

@thrasherxy

6 months

The Center for American Progress fighting Biden on Gaza is stunning. It’s as mainstream Dem as an org can be without being the DNC or MSNBC.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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I’d extend the question to academic departments, conferences, editorial boards, graduate school admittances, panels, etc.

Jose Antonio Vargas

@joseiswriting

3 years

Serious question: when White people watch a TV show or film or theater—or any piece of online or in real life content—and they see only White people, do they notice it? Feel unsettled? Wonder where everyone else is? Anyone can answer.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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What I really miss about in-person ASA is hanging with the homies over drinks and shit talk.

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

3 years

Perpetually fascinated by social scientists that act like statistical data can't be interpreted in multiple ways. "How dare you have a different understanding!".

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Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

@MichaelRMuniz

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Another problem, noted by others, is the lack of discussion on the "language" issue.

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