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Ryan Cecil Jobson

6 months

The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at @UChicagoPress . ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

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@RyanCecilJobson

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⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 🔜 @UChicagoPress

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

So the “post” in postpandemic is the same as the “post” in postcolonial, no?

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Our smallest and least populous islands—the Grenadines, Barbuda, Saba, Nevis, Montserrat, San Andres, Providencia—deserve so much more. And not just when they’re devastated by hurricanes or other disasters.

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Mayreau 💔

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

Black Studies Twitter been ready for this.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

7 months

A lateral move if I ever saw one.

Chicago Tribune

@chicagotribune

7 months

New ordinance would rename ‘Columbus Drive’ to ‘Barack Obama Drive’

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

Mourning the tragic loss of my friend and classmate Andrew Dowe. Andrew shaped generations of Yale students over nearly two decades and taught me to insist upon joy in an unforgiving academy. A son of Antigua who inhabited the beauty of Black, Caribbean, queer life. Vale, Andrew.

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@RyanCecilJobson

2 years

Vale, George Lamming From his eulogy for Maurice Bishop, “Death Will Not Find Us Thinking That We Die” (1983)

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4 years

@ztsamudzi

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

Remembering when bell hooks diagnosed the crisis of academic anthropology in a few choice paragraphs and got right back to the work of dismantling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. A model for us all.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

7 years

Birmingham, Alabama (1930s) / Rochester, NY (2017)

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@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

“I hope somebody will make it his business to write a thesis on what happened in the Guyana revolution and the death of Walter Rodney, which is not just he death of a singular and remarkable individual.” C.L.R. James

The People's Forum

@PeoplesForumNYC

1 year

On this day in Guyana, 1980, Walter Rodney was assassinated for imagining a world beyond colonialism & imperialism. His revolutionary ideas continue to inspire & guide us today. Read his “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” “The Groundings with My Brothers”! Available @1804Books

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

My thoughts keep drifting back to this story from last September.

Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective

@Rachael_Swindon

4 years

This is Mr Khalid Bashir, from Jabal Al-Mukabber in Palestine. He is destroying his own home following orders from Israel to demolish it. If you don’t destroy your own home, the Israeli bulldozers will destroy it for you, and you will pay the costs.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

6 months

Give thanks for the good people at Black Rock Books in Barbados. They knew to reach out before posting this one for sale.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

As of this morning, the announcement for the upcoming cluster hire in Indigenous Studies @RDIatUChicago is now live! Please apply and share widely.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

Where is Golden Krust when you need them?

Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies - Pennsylvania, United States

Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies Location: Philadelphia, PA Open Date: May 10, 2023 Deadline: The Program in...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

2 years

I'm begging people to actually read the Black Jacobins instead of making stuff up.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

My year-in-review essay, The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019, is available ahead of print from @AmAnthroJournal

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 months

Feeling grateful for two thoughtful, generous blurbs from @LalehKhalili and David Scott. Ready for The Petro-State Masquerade to mash up d’ road on @UChicagoPress this December! ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

6 months

The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at @UChicagoPress . ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

The only way you can think UCPD doesn't patrol beyond Hyde Park (and informally beyond its already expansive jurisdiction) is if you've never been to Woodlawn, Bronzeville, or Washington Park.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 months

My grandmother, uncle, and cousins are all safe after Beryl. Damage to the roof and gutters, but thankfully they were spared the worst. Thanks everyone for your concern. 🙏🏽

Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 months

Nervously watching the live feed as my family brace for the worst in St. E. This after a week of watching flattened houses and flooded streets where I’ve walked and broke bread in Carriacou, Grenada, and St. Lucia. Long season ahead.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

I spoke to my friend @yarimarbonilla about the coloniality of disaster, the limits of sovereignty, and being a good Caribbeanist for @PublicBooks !

Public Thinker: Yarimar Bonilla on Decolonizing Decolonization

“Hurricane Maria ushered in a great deal of trauma and suffering, but it also allowed us to reassess the very nature of the political.”

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

I have an essay out in @AmEthno based on my research in the Herskovits Papers @SchomburgCenter . By revisiting the “classics,” I call attention to the unsettled boundaries of disciplinary form and method and chart another course for our work in the present.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

Today, my colleagues and I at UChicago @CSRPC released this open letter. After a second failed search for a faculty director, we call for an department of Critical Race Studies, the defunding of UCPD, and the founding of a reparations commission.

More than Diversity—A Call to Action from University of Chicago Faculty

To add your signature to this letter, please fill out this form. For press inquiries, please contact [email protected]. More than Diversity—A Call to Action from University of Chicago...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

How did decolonize become a synonym for reform?

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

When I was an undergrad at Penn, I wrote a paper on the question of reparations and repatriation for the remains of enslaved Cuban bozales in the Morton Collection--years before Penn entertained any discussion of the matter. The call to let anthropology burn began here.

Billy Penn

@billy_penn

3 years

Remains of children killed in MOVE bombing sat in a box at Penn Museum for decades

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

6 months

As another encampment blooms, shoutout to the students who occupied UChicago Police headquarters for 19 hours in 2020. The boundaries of “campus” are only maintained through the threat of violence that our students have fervently mobilized against. @SJPatUChicago @care_not_cops

Alireza Doostdar علیرضا دوستدار

@docstobar

6 months

Greetings and salutations from the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at @UChicago

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

The best birthday gift is finally being able to share the news!

Chicago Journals

@ChicagoJournals

1 year

We are honored to announce that Transforming Anthropology @TransformAnthro the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists @ABA_AAA will join the University of Chicago Press journals program beginning in 2024 (vol. 32, no. 1)!

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⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 🔜 @UChicagoPress

The Petro-state Masquerade

A historical and ethnographic study of the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil...

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

This means something different in academia.

Chlöe

@ChloeBailey

3 years

always stay gracious best revenge is your paper

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@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

More than a month after he suffered a heart attack, my father is finally back home. He still has a long road of cognitive and physical rehab ahead, but thanks to everyone who prayed and checked in over the past several weeks. Please keep sending positive energy his way!

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3 months

For @CaribbeanClash , I wrote about radical histories of autonomy in the Grenadines and the necessity of this tradition for genuine climate justice in Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Union Island, Canouan, Mayreau, and Bequia after Hurricane Beryl.

Clash! Voices for Caribbean Federation from Below

@CaribbeanClash

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After Hurricane Beryl, @RyanCecilJobson argues that the people of the Grenadines may draw on homegrown traditions of autonomy to govern relief efforts in defiance of multinational capital and political elites in Kingstown and St. George’s.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

2 years

Secret’s out!

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2 years

After my father came home from the hospital last summer, he told me he wanted to write a book about his childhood in Malvern, Jamaica. Over the last three months he put together a memoir on @Storyworth of his early years, finished just in time for a bittersweet #Jamaica60 .

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

After a season of irreparable loss, Maya Berry wrote the essay that we desperately need—the essay I needed today. @AmAnthroJournal

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

2 months

My department at UChicago is conducting a search for an open-rank faculty position in the anthropology of health and medicine. Please circulate widely to students, colleagues, and friends!

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3 months

If anything will unite the Caribbean, it will be the common feeling of dread as deadly storms threaten our family, friends, and students. Our region truly stands alone.

carlos (vibe describer)

@Vaquero2XL

3 months

Aftermath of Hurricane Beryl in Carriacou is looking pretty bad. Pictures from MP Ron Redhead.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

5 years

Finally made the pilgrimage to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in KC! @nlbmprez

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@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

Some unpublished Michel-Rolph Trouillot to cleanse the ecomodernist-degrowth “banana wars” on the timeline. [From Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1992) “Banana Wars: The Sweetness of Commodities”]

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

@Slangdini Got the fresh line up too

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

Nature is healing.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

3 years

France President Emmanuel Macron slapped in the face

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

We need to find a way to discuss the resonances between protests in the Caribbean and the US without treating the former as derivative of the latter. Trinis have mobilized against police violence for decades.

IzzSo

@IzzSoMedia

4 years

Happening Now: Morvant Junction Protests over police killings

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 months

Meanwhile, in the world of billy woods.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

5 years

Had to skip my usual haircut while in quarantine, so I sent my barber his usual rate with a 50% tip. Remember to support the gig and freelance workers in your life during the COVID-19 crisis.

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@RyanCecilJobson

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Immensely proud of our students for not backing down on their principled demands even with the threat of violence looming over their negotiations.

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

The Atlantic is, and always has been, a place of horror.

Elizabeth Williams

@EWilliamstv6

3 years

(BELLE GARDEN BODIES FOUND UPDATE) AUTOPSIES ON THE 14 BODIES FOUND IN A VESSEL, OFF THE COAST OF BELLE GARDEN HAS STARTED. CONFIRMATION FROM POLICE, THE VESSEL, AG 231, ORIGINATED FROM THE AFRICAN COUNTRY MAURITANIA. @tv6tnt

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

10 months

Funny to see factions of the “left” suddenly catch on to the critique of Bolivarian socialism that they dismissed eight years ago.

The Chavez Doctrine or Revolutionary Socialism?

The left neglects the crisis of Guyanese underdevelopment and the incongruities of petrosocialism at its own peril.

medium.com

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

My great uncle bought this three volume set of Bryan Edwards’s History of the West Indies for $10 at a NYC bookstore in the 70s. He passed them down to me and I had them rebound. Second edition of Vol. I-II. First edition of Vol. III. From 1801.

BlackRedGuard ☭ 🇵🇸 🔻

@BlackRedGuard1

1 year

what’s the oldest book you own mine is this

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

I see the AAA took "the case for letting anthropology burn" to mean "the case for disciplinary self-immolation."

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@RyanCecilJobson

7 months

Same goes for leftists and liberals, too.

C.M. Lewis

@thehousered

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why do liberals persist in believing that catching conservatives in moments of hypocrisy is actually politically effective

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@RyanCecilJobson

6 months

Sharing again. Please read closely and carefully. 🙏🏽

EmmaGoldmanBookClub

@EmmaGoldmanBCTX

6 months

Lessons on Taking the School Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Occupation

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

My latest, “States of Crisis, Flags of Convenience,” is out in Small Axe 62. Honored to introduce critical essays on climate change and Caribbean political futures by @lawelcome , @anthrorican , @GregBeckett9 , Sarah Vaughn, @njlightfoot , and @yarimarbonilla !

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

5 months

Facts. This is literally my villain origin story.

List: Clash! Documents of the Caribbean Revolution | Curated by Ryan Cecil Jobson | Medium

15 stories · A collection of original documents and pamphlets transcribed and with annotated introductions by Clash! editors and contributors.

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darius.

@_dariussimpson

5 months

if you see how much Black revolutionary/radical writing is locked up in university archives, no way you’ll come out tellin folks they just need to google harder. some essential instructive writing is inaccessible to folks. we should be working tirelessly to make it available.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

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1 year

I put down some thoughts on the Succession finale, offshore finance, and the TIME Magazine feature on reparations in Barbados and the Caribbean.

“No Bad Sharks in Bim”: Kendall Roy, Offshore Capital, and Caribbean Reparations

How does Barbados come to serve as the cinematic backdrop for the fraternal conflicts of privileged heirs?

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@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

Tweet of the Day

anthony christian ocampo 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈

@anthonyocampo

4 years

today in medium...

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@RyanCecilJobson

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I spoke with Lucia Cantero and Kamari Clarke on anthropology, abolition, and the university for @AmAnthroJournal | The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Considerations and Reflections

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@RyanCecilJobson

5 months

Thrilled to see this resource now available. Full transcript of my @wrkclasshistory episode on the 1937 Trinidad General Strike at the link below.

Working Class History

@wrkclasshistory

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New! We have posted the transcript for our podcast about the 1937 Trinidad general strike with @RyanCecilJobson to our website:

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@RyanCecilJobson

8 months

Road work. @K2KCarnival

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 months

Nervously watching the live feed as my family brace for the worst in St. E. This after a week of watching flattened houses and flooded streets where I’ve walked and broke bread in Carriacou, Grenada, and St. Lucia. Long season ahead.

Weather Jamaica

@weatherjamaica

3 months

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has just issued its 10 AM update, stating that Beryl is still a Category 4 major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph. Her tropical storm-force winds (🟠 color) are now halfway across the island of Jamaica, mainly across Surrey and

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@RyanCecilJobson

5 years

This @Laurence_Ralph thread inspired me to share my #DecolonizingAnthropology syllabus. Every anthropology department should have its own version of this course, and every version should look different.

Laurence Ralph

@Laurence_Ralph

5 years

1/17 Ever wonder how whiteness is privileged in the social sciences? #anthrotwitter #AnthroSoWhite [A Thread]

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

Some of my students are occupying UCPD HQ until the university guarantees our safety as Black people by defunding and disbanding the country’s largest private police force!

GoodKidsMadCity

@GKMC18

4 years

. @UChicago would rather punish & threaten its students than listen to their reasonable demands. . @care_not_cops is live on IG. Hear this powerful statement about the trauma felt by Black students having to navigate spaces with UCPD! #DefundUCPD

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@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

From every non-indictment thousands of abolitionists bloom.

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@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

Inshallah 🙏🏽

Andrew Viñales

@fogoav

3 years

The Brujeria is working. Anthropology is burning.

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2 years

This one hits too close to home. My cousins in Buffalo are safe, but I was heartbroken to learn that a member of their Mt. Zion AME Church community lost his life today. My thoughts are with the Salter family and all those who lost loved ones today.

Drew Harwell

@drewharwell

2 years

There's the racist Buffalo gunman who copied other racists and then there's Aaron Salter Jr., who died trying to protect people, had three kids and was working to build engines that could run on water. Whose name should we be remembering?

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“When mas was mas.” Rest in Power, Black Stalin [Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 2001]

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@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

Overjoyed to launch @CaribbeanClash with close friends and elders on this Emancipation Day. Our collective is a space to meditate on the radical history and present of the region as we forge a federation from below. A bit on why we write:

Pakiko Nos Ta Skibi, O Ken Tin Miedu Di Un Federashon Karibense Djabou?

Why We Write, or, Who’s Afraid of Caribbean Federation from Below?

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Clash! Voices for Caribbean Federation from Below

@CaribbeanClash

1 year

Today, on the 189th anniversary of emancipation in the British Empire, we are proud to launch a new collective of writers and advocates for Caribbean unity, workers self-management, and federation from below. A statement on why we write:

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@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

More than any day, I wish Rolph Trouillot was still here to complete his project on historical apologies (and now, rituals of “acceptance”).

The Repair Campaign

@RepairCampaign

1 year

Eric Phillips, Chairman of Guyana’s Reparations Committee, says an acceptance service was important in asking the ancestors to accept the Gladstones’ apology. #Guyana #Gladstone #Apology @HeirsofSlavery @NCNGuyana

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@RyanCecilJobson

6 months

The decline of the humanities must be why the timeline struggling to close read these diss tracks.

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@RyanCecilJobson

2 years

UC students gaining decades of wisdom in a matter of weeks. Keep raising hell. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Iggy 🏴

@drawn_daggers

2 years

I promise you, the first time you're stabbed in the back by your union will be the last time you see them as anything other than another institution vying for managerial power over working people. The second you push for a world beyond their control, they mark you an enemy.

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@RyanCecilJobson

2 years

My Caribbean festschrift for Mike Davis, “Calypso Mike,” is out @AtPost45 . Many thanks to the editors for this opportunity to express my gratitude to a living legend.

Contemporaries @ Post45

@AtPost45

2 years

In “Calypso Mike,” @RyanCecilJobson reads Davis through a Caribbean lens, hailing “a tireless evangelist of working people” who refuses to "sacrifice beauty or rigor, offering a model for us to emulate as we navigate rising temperatures and angry winds.”

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I wrote an essay for @SSRC_Items on race, capitalism, and oil development in Guyana. Follow the link for my commentary and the full @racecapitalism series!

Black Gold in El Dorado: Frontiers of Race and Oil in Guyana

“Certain myths refuse to die long after the needs which created them have passed away.” —George Lamming[footnote]George Lamming, “The West Indian People,” New World Quarterly 2, no. 2 (1966):...

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@RyanCecilJobson

1 year

So grateful to @PreeLit for publishing my first ever work of short fiction on the political economy of whiteness and “brownness,” Manley’s Gun Court, and the Jamaican 1970s.

Pork - PREE

Black Power reigned on the cricket pitch. The boys’ history teacher, a graduate of Howard University, regaled them with lessons on Paul Bogle and the Morant Bay Rebellion. Soon, a custom of celebra...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

3 years

As shocking as this footage is, it’s crucial to remember this is a mundane reality, a relatively small blip on the balance sheets of oil and gas multinationals and their political enablers. This video alone won’t trigger decisive action—only we can.

Brian Kahn

@blkahn

3 years

The Gulf of Mexico is literally on fire because a pipeline ruptured

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@RyanCecilJobson

9 years

"The intellectual may also be a mercenary." -Maurice Bishop

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@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

More 🔥🔥🔥 with friends on September 23.

Wenner-Gren Foundation

@WennerGrenOrg

4 years

Another awesome #webinar coming up later this month: The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Race, Racism, and Its Reckoning in American Anthropology #anthrotwitter

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2 years

Very honored to bring this new (annual) @SmallAxeProject section to life with my co-editor @VanessaYPerez and inaugural contributors, @OmarisZamora @wwJJDdo @lawelcome and Gloria Wekker!

Small Axe

@SmallAxeProject

2 years

Keywords in Caribbean Studies: A Small Axe Project / SX 68, July 2022: @RyanCecilJobson

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@RyanCecilJobson

4 years

I will always be grateful for this conversation—and the thoughtful engagement and critique from all corners of the Internet. Feeling inspired and ready for the hard work ahead!

Society for Cultural Anthropology

@culanth

4 years

Thanks to @deborahanthro , @RyanCecilJobson , @savannahshange , @DrJonathanRosa , @ZoeSTodd , Kamari Clarke, Lucia Cantero and Chris Loperena and everyone in the YouTube chat for a truly singular panel. Please add your thoughts and reflections to #LetAnthroBurn !

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1 year

Today, for @CaribbeanClash , I wrote about the unseemly collaboration between the CARICOM Reparations Commission and Digicel founder Denis O’Brien. I trace the origins of O’Brien’s fortune, his ventures in Jamaica and Haiti, and his turn to reparations.

The CARICOM-Digicel™ Reparations Top Up

O’Brien’s top-up approach will protect private capital interests while offering paltry benefits to the descendants of enslaved people.

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Not unlike August 1 and December 25, June 19 surfaces time and time again in the history of black freedom struggle. In 1937, oilfield workers at Forest Reserve, Trinidad sparked an island-wide general strike and a sustained labour insurgency across the Caribbean. #LabourDay 🇹🇹

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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

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Nah. The hypocrisy was already gross but West Papua has something to say about this. Cut it out.

Sulaiman Ahmed

@ShaykhSulaiman

9 months

BREAKING: INDONESIA WIL BE TAKING ISRAEL TO ICJ COURT ON NEW CHARGE In a separate case to the one brought by South Africa, Indonesia will bring Israel to the ICJ for it’s illegal occupation of Palestine. Indonesian Foreign Minister: “International law must be upheld. Israel’s

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“There is something about even radical political economy, that in the name of science, reason, and administrative efficiency, fears and trembles before the idea that African labor might directly govern society.” Matthew Quest

ROAPE journal

@ROAPEjournal

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The Marxist C. L. R. James (1901-1989) was born 122 years ago #Otd . Celebrating his birthday, Matthew Quest places james' radical political economy centered on working class self-emancipation in conversation with the African world and the continent:

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“In Guyana, it’s become hard to distinguish where the oil company ends and the government begins. Exxon executives join the Guyanese president in his suite at cricket matches, and the vice president regularly hosts press conferences to defend the oil company.”

The Intercept

@theintercept

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Guyana is poised to become @exxonmobil ’s top global oil producer. Where the company ends and the government begins is increasingly unclear.

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@RyanCecilJobson

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This inspired me to finally teach a Trouillot grad seminar in Spring ‘22. Grateful to @yarimarbonilla @mayanthileilani @GregBeckett9 for all your hard work!

Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

OMG I am so excited for this!!! We still don’t have a cover image, but look at these blurbs!!! 🥰 Thank you @hystericalblkns !! —Duke University Press - Trouillot Remixed. cc: @mayanthileilani @GregBeckett9

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@RyanCecilJobson

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For friends submitting pre-orders with @UChicagoPress , don’t forget to add my musicologist colleague Jessica Baker’s Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis. 🎶🇰🇳

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@RyanCecilJobson

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The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at @UChicagoPress . ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

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When your favorite rapper heard your Zoom mini-lecture 💯💯💯

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@Khadijahaynes1

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I'm so happy Mach was able to make my little poli-ed event uplifting often the obscured solidarities between Haiti+Trinidad. Very special thank you to @RyanCecilJobson , who imparted his many insights to us. And, of course, thank you to my comrade in arms and heart @AugustFanon .

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all my homies hate nation-states

andrewism🌻

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france existing doesn't sit right with me

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“To me, more people should adopt the Haitian flag as their own.” -Mach-Hommy 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

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Thrilled to conclude our @UChiCollegium Project, Fossil Capitalism in the Global South, with a star-studded symposium on May 5! Register here: @natterjee @DJMontao1 @MamyrahProsper @LadeAdunbi @bretgustafson @mshutzer

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So gratifying to hold this in print after years of hard work by @DestinKJenkins and @DrownedNegro to curate this conversation. Thanks for indulging my “ideas” essay in a history volume and including me alongside so many trusted friends and comrades!

Destin Jenkins

@DestinKJenkins

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Hot off the press! Histories of Racial Capitalism out now. Order anywhere books are sold. Many have heard about racial capitalism, but are looking for a text to help them make sense of the term. This volume of 9 essays does just that. 1/

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Got chills reading this. No lie. @MaxBlumenthal Adolph Reed had Obama pegged years before anyone had heard of him... http://t.co/5L498xm64u

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@RyanCecilJobson

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September 13 will mark 50 years since the police murder of Beverly Jones in the hills of Lopinot, Trinidad. I am grateful to republish her mother’s eulogy for Beverly—a stunning work of Caribbean political theory in its own right.

Clash! Voices for Caribbean Federation from Below

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Co-editor @RyanCecilJobson reflects on 50 years since the police murder of Beverly Jones in Trinidad. We are proud to republish her mother Viola’s stunning eulogy in its entirety.

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