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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

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Race is a social construction. That means the logics, terminology, meanings of race and Blackness will shift from location to location and from one time period to another. The US is not the only context of racialization in the world.

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@XmanPhD

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I’m begging tennis to figure out the matching kit issue. There just are too many people wearing the same outfits playing each other.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

Today was my last official day at UT Austin. I am excited to announce that as of Fall Quarter 2020 I will be joining @ucsc as Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

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@plaiboipapi @ksonowwhat There were no advantages. And I need postcolonial education to stop teaching that there’s a both sides to colonialism.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

The book is here! Thanks to everyone who supported me through the process! Can’t believe I’m actually holding it in my hand!

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@XmanPhD

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Black folk unaware or unappreciative of these racialized contexts outside their countries of origin should simply respect and call people what they'd like to be called in the context of their own system of racialization understanding that the context is distinct from their own.

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@surlybassey @mimoyd1 Also for me it plays with comforting tropes of Black women as caretakers of white folk. In this case the Black woman is no longer in the kitchen or serving as a nanny but she’s still essentially there to take care of the main (white) character’s needs.

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@XmanPhD

5 years

The cops killed that whole family.

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@XmanPhD

4 years

@tumcarayol Wow. This was tone deaf and trivializing of Black Death. My goodness.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@thinglygrammar The thing is like Nicholas Cage I seriously doubt his pedigree was unknown. It’s just a coincidence that his breakout role is a Spike Lee film? No need to fake a “I did it on my own” narrative. Just enjoy your fame/nepotism and leave the rest of us out of it.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

This statement is not it. It is condescending, defensive, and not in the spirit of intellectual dialogue. The junior scholars who put their careers on the line to speak back to power are horrifically misrepresented here. It is curious how violence is being imagined in this +

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

About Tiafoe and the response from fans re: the Sinner match. Sinner has every right to be annoyed about Tiafoe’s use of the crowd. His fans (btw I’m one of them) are also free to share his annoyance. I do hope with some retrospection Sinner will reconsider and see that…

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@bdjansenphd @sgbuggs I find it striking how many of the STEM folks also “regret” their major.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

But It is disappointing to see how quickly thinly veiled racialized language gets mobilized in this moment. All of a sudden Tiafoe is a clown?

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

The sad thing is that she is more likely to be charged with animal abuse than attempted murder, which is what that video was.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

I’d just like for TT, the (Italian) press and those of us who love this sport to really reflect on how responses to this moment might just reflect biases and be colored by perceptions, particularly stereotypical and negative perceptions of Black men.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

1 year

Just finished listening to the biomechanic guy who worked with Sabalenka. What a fascinating take on how he helped her game. I was struck by his insistence that her service yips were not mental but were rather the result of poor and unnatural technique that when corrected..

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

6 years

I hate stories like this. They are heartwarming for sure. But what they also do is normalize working folk doing the labor that should be provided by the state, normalize the lack of public transportation infrastructure and normalize the payment of non living wages.

ABC News

@ABC

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Trenton Lewis walks 3 hours to work each day, no matter the weather, so he can “step up” for his daughter. He’s never missed a shift, he’s never been late. When his co-workers found out about his grueling commute they surprised him with his very own car.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

For those of you going to American Studies I'll be in conversation with LH Stallings and Marlon M. Bailey tomorrow morning (10AM ET) about my book Kwaito Bodies. If you're able to make it please stop by.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@ruha9 Hi Ruha. Thanks for giving us this opportunity to pub our work. I published Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post Apartheid South Africa.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@nthakoana @MariaPodesta @Vodacom I would have consistently called her by the wrong name until she learned to pronounce mine. A friend of mine did that in the US and it was actually effective.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

statement. Ultimately the authors of the original piece are not victims and the critics are not bullies. They raised legitimate concerns and have now been dismissed and reminded of their place. There is clearly a crossroads being reached, one that I have no doubt will have +

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

Certainly the fans in Vienna who seemed to really be enjoying the show didn’t think so. And isn’t that what we want? Fans engaged, excited, and cheering with passion? My last point. I wish people would stop being disingenuous re: the racial implications of this criticism

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

5 years

Duke University Press - Kwaito Bodies So hey everyone. I wrote a book. And it has a beautiful cover. Look out for it in April 2020! Thanks @NeoNtsoma for permission to use the image!

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

What bothers me is that when has engaging the crowd and pumping them up been seen as a problem? This is behavior that is generally encouraged by commentators and fans alike. Let me be clear I don’t blame Sinner here, I completely understand his saltiness.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

I am aware that my new position came out of student activism and faculty support for that activism. I hope to honor their activism through my teaching, service, scholarship and advising.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@ryanjhaas @shaboom I’m not comfortable with the use of the term restorative justice here. I think the term should not be coopted or used out of context. Dropping spurious and excessive charges is not restorative justice. I’m also not sure who/what was harmed by protesters exercising 1st Amm.rights.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

I forgot to add that the new position is specifically one for the newly created Black Studies minor @ucsc

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

5 years

I have made sure that each of my syllabi (which are required classes for students in their respective departments have at least 50% content by Black Wome writers. Both ended up being about 3/4 Black Women. #CiteBlackWomen .

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

serious repercussions for the organization. As someone who has been a part of these debates about the whiteness and colonial nature of the field since the 1990s, I am tired of seeing us have to have the same conversations and debates. I want to work with those both +

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

Surely it is not a stretch or wildly out of place to point out that the actions of a Black person in a sport with few Black players might not be interpreted or considered with the same kind of objectivity. We’ve all seen Frances play we know he engages the crowd.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@jbrous41 No way. Particularly what we know about systemic under compensation for Black actors. Rather donate his extra pay to Black actresses or to the janitorial crew etc.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

As a product of the California public school system from Kindergarten through my PhD I'm also excited to return to the UC system and home to CA.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

in and out of the organization to think critically about what a different project of the study of Africa needs to look like because the current one is not working.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

As a pro player you’ve got to manage those moments. You are also free to pump up the crowd yourself even if this is not your typical way of responding. See Badosa matching Azarenka’s intensity in her own way in the IW final.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

I’m excited to be a part of this wide ranging Afrodiasporic conversation with such an amazing collection of scholars. Looking forward!

Y. Figueroa-Vásquez

@DrYoFiggy

4 years

Join us on July 28th @ 8pm for a conversation on 'Black Diaspora Cultural Studies Now" featuring: @XmanPhD , @Namdia3 , @DrYoFiggy , @rawreader , @samanthanpinto , & moderated by @pornosch Register here for the zoom link:

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

1 year

@Big3Tennis Honestly JMac should stop commentating period. He clearly does not follow or keep up with the modern game and he refuses to do the bare minimum of preparation and research before marches. It’s unprofessional and sub par journalism.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

UC Davis is hiring for an African Studies scholar. Please spread to any interested parties.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

1 year

@vanshv2k This was an extremely disorganized trophy ceremony. I have no idea what’s going on here but they should be embarrassed.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

5 years

So proud to have been a part of this collection!

Illinois Press

@IllinoisPress

5 years

BLACK SEXUAL ECONOMIES challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. With essays by @Adrienne_WU , @DrJeffrey2U , @XmanPhD , @DrMireille , @EricaLWilliams , and more! Find it here:

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

6 years

Like others I’m proud to be a part of this collective. Please check it out.

Cite Black Women.

@citeblackwomen

6 years

Good morning #CiteBlackWomen ! It's HERE!!! After much anticipation, we are elated to announce our new Cite Black Women Podcast and our new website!!! Check out our podcast trailer, Season 1, Episode 0 here: Our website at

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

Just a quick reminder that I'll be presenting about my book Kwaito Bodies next week. Look forward to the conversation. Readings and playlists will be included. As the original tweet remarks pls get in touch with @eweisbard for the link and the materials.

Duke University Press

@DukePress

4 years

Coming up July 14, catch @XmanPhD on the @IASPMUS online Popular Music Books in Process Series. Get in touch with @eweisbard for the Zoom link.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

@prisonculture 1) the vote in many of these states is gerrymandered and suppressed 2) propaganda and the manufacturing of consent works 3) many white people are dedicated to the preservation of white supremacy even if it literally kills them

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

5 years

“What I write and how I write is done in order to save my life.…Literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel is. It is an affirmation that sensuality is intelligence, that sensual language is language that makes sense.” - Barbara Christian.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@CCSMOOTH13 @MakeItWayne15 People enjoy and celebrate Blackness when it is unthreatening or when it can be used against another Black person. Easy to like Frances when he is not a threat. Different when he’s beating top 10 players and making deep runs at majors. Frances has been the same all this time.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

@TennisPodcast Tennis like any other sport is always about more than just the sport, sport always highlights a set of social, economic, and political issues whether it’s been equal pay for women, the globalization of the sport, the exclusion of Black players until the mid 20th century, etc.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

6 months

Sorry ya’ll I had to share this thread. SA twitter remains undefeated with both its social commentary and its humor,

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@odedanilo

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“There’s a genocide against white people in South Africa” White people in South Africa :

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

We’ve all seen various other players also mobilize the crowd. As @missingpointpod says what is different about Tiafoe? I wonder what it could be? In the larger scheme of things this is not really that dramatic. But before this is lost in the dustbin of the 24 hr. news cycle

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

5 years

@stu_fraser The funny thing is seeing people misread what Serena was actually saying here. It was a combination of throwing shade but also refusing to be drawn into more controversy regarding Ramos. It is up there with Mariah’s dismissal of J. Lo.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

Hey everyone. I am featured in Africa is a Country talking about some of my influences for my recent book Kwaito Bodies. Thanks to @africasacountry for the opportunity!

Africa Is a Country

@africasacountry

4 years

. @XmanPhD wrote a book about #kwaito , especially how Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music. Then he made a #ReadingList for us.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

Thanks Elizabeth! With everything going on I wasn’t so focused on the upcoming book release. Thank you to everyone who is considering purchasing and/or teaching this book.

Elizabeth Ault

@lizault

4 years

New books available in @dukepress sale include @XmanPhD 's Kwaito Bodies --Africana critique connecting the continent and the diaspora. AND THIS COVER

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

@SPBPHD Erste Bank open in Vienna. If you have Tennis Channel and are a fan of Frances I’d recommend watching on replay the Sinner match. It was a great comeback from Frances! All of his work he’s been doing to improve his game really has come together this week. I’m so happy for him.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@Natural_OneDurr Like no one really cared. With Covid people were not checking for this story. It had faded. Why bring it back up. I assume this is in an attempt to resurrect his political career.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

@BenRothenberg I actually think journalists should ignore this and stop asking him about it. It is the tennis media that has been exhausting on this issue. I would love more focus on the people who are confirmed participants and less on the maybes and people who aren't going to be there.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@TennisChannel @AdriaTennisTour This Adria tour looked like a disaster from the beginning. I hope he’s ok and that no one else is infected. I also hope US Open is paying close attention here.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@ATLCitizenBeth @kirstinetaylor Oh I definitely think these plans were in place and COVID gives them cover. The neoliberalization of the university can now be increased with little protest (literally with stay in place orders folks can’t protest unless you’re angry white folks with guns).

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

1 year

@TennisPodcast I kind of wish she’d just stay who she is. Especially if the show of emotion ultimately affects her play negatively. Her calm cool manner is actually so interesting to me given the current landscape of top level tennis.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

@TennisPodcast I feel like Medvedev on clay is just him practicing his post tennis stand up career. I actually am starting to root for him to win more clay matches for the performance that inevitably comes along with it.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

This is not a good look UT. Please reverse this decision.

hussy w/ the good hair

@LaziestAmbition

4 years

Why is UT charging students for emergency housing that already paid for housing????

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@XmanPhD

1 year

@BenRothenberg The technology exists to end this practice. Not everything is a tradition that needs to be preserved. If people like the comraderie of camping out before seeing matches I imagine that could still be done by those that want to?

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@vanshv2k It’s horrid but clearly the tennis powers that be (including RG which Kyrgios has trashed) has decided that marketing Kyrgios is what is needed in tennis. And we know that commentators are encouraged to basically be PR for certain players. So here we are.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@angryblkhoemo I have always maintained that everyone loves everyone else’s Black people but not their own. Lots of generosity extended to me when traveling that would never be given to a Black person from that country. But I’ve seen the same behavior from whites here.

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@XmanPhD

1 year

If anyone is interested in listening to the conversation I am including the youtube link here. You can also use your podcast app to find it. It is the On the Line podcast.

Interviewing the biomechanics trainer that fixed Aryna Sabalenka's...

Following Aryna Sabalenka's incredible run to the Australian Open title, I spoke to Gavin MacMillan, the biomechanics trainer responsible for fixing the Bela...

www.youtube.com

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@vanshv2k I would love for tennis to market the tour rather than individual players but for some reason neither the ATP or WTA have seemed to figure out how to do that consistently. Another way that mainstream tennis fumbles the bag.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

I am sad to leave behind my brilliant @BlackStudiesUT & @utcwgs family who have provided me with community over the last 7 years. I will miss everyone dearly, particularly the incredible students. This community helped me grow as a scholar, mentor and teacher over the years.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

1 year

As a fan of Coco Gauff, I really would love it if she and her people would seek this guy out for advice on the FH. The difference in Aryna's game in such a short period of time should prove this guys effectiveness.

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@XmanPhD

1 year

@luckytran I’ll say again clear masks exist and accommodate smiles…so this is purely ideological and they should say it with their chest.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@Holygrail2 @BenRothenberg Here’s the thing. Done correctly, tennis actually could be a perfect socially distanced sport. Lines and score can be called electronically. The umpire in that case could be present but not on court to mediate any disputes, and players are rarely within 6 ft of one another.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

10 months

@TheBodyServe And Lindsey of all people shouldn’t be encouraging or participating in that particular discourse given that when she played she was sometimes subjected to it, based not on her actual fitness (which was always solid) but on perceptions of body type.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

1 year

Sakkari is being a mess here by allowing herself to be irritated by Shnaider pumping herself up. 1) Shnaider’s not doing anything wrong. 2) If Maria plays better her opponent won’t have much to celebrate. It doesn’t speak well to her mental game to be bothered by this.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@TennisPodcast I'm glad that folks are taking a stance on Ukraine but this all feels very western oriented and self serving. Ukraine is not the only country suffering from attacks from a major superpower either directly or by proxy and western consensus stands on shaky moral ground.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@Racquettechie It is clear that people will take every opportunity to mobilize anti-Black racism and frame innocuous actions in a demonizing way when it comes to Tiafoe. As a fan I’m happy he is becoming more high profile but I also realize that this comes with unwanted baggage as well.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

Just a reminder to take those sick and vacation days.

J*jo S*wa is 40 years old 💇🏼‍♀️👱🏻

@arieella_

4 years

Man if the NBA ain’t showing you that an employer will keep it the fuck moving........

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@XmanPhD

3 years

@tennisnation Here’s my take. If you wouldn’t mention something as a problem after a victory, think twice about mentioning it after a loss. Jannik got a little tight, winning this match was a big deal for his chances for Turin and he couldn’t close. Be pissed, ofc but this seems ungenerous.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

Has the African Studies Associstion ever made any kind of statement in support of the protests and movement for Black Lives in the US? On the one hand perhaps it’s best that they stay out of performarive insincere solidarity. On the other hand the silence is telling.

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@XmanPhD

4 years

@ztsamudzi There is some really great research on Sepedi/Sesotho/Setswana that also speaks to how colonial and missionary rivalries had a lot to do with amalgamation/inventions of language/ethnic groups as well as their separation and distinction.

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@XmanPhD

6 years

People really want a “good cop” narrative, especially the good black cop narrative.

Ella Septima-Hamer

@Jbrous14

6 years

You really celebrating a story of a person whose first assignment was to spy on Stokely Carmichael? 😂😂 You niggas wild.

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@XmanPhD

8 months

Yeah it becomes clear why this law’s reach was limited to this time frame given that such a large percentage of the claims were against the state.

Dyjuan Tatro

@DyjuanTatro

8 months

New York’s Adult Survivor Act is getting alot of attention because many high-profile people are being sued for sexual assault. BUT “more than half were prison-related claims against the state … with hundreds of additional filings naming NYC’s department of corrections.”

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@XmanPhD

4 years

Hey everyone. BAR interviewed me about my forthcoming book Kwaito Bodies. Check out the link.

BAR Book Forum

@BARBookForum

4 years

“What I wanted to get at in this book is the political value of multiple forms of excess and exuberance.” Thanks to @XmanPhD for this wonderful post on @blkagendareport : @keguro_ @DukePress

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

7 years

@citeblackwomen In my Black Studies Theory 2 class the entire syllabus (save 1 text) uses books by Black women writers.

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@XmanPhD

2 years

@vanshv2k I completely agree with this assesssment. It is well beyond time for Tsitsipas to cut ties with his parents (esp. Dad) as coaches. Parents need to stay home for a while and let someone else coach and travel with him.

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@XmanPhD

7 years

This is for any historians/art historians out there who are Nigerian citizens. Please circulate widely.

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@XmanPhD

4 years

@thinglygrammar I’d also add that his mother’s pedigree alone would have given him a leg up in that industry. Most black actors can’t count on having two parents who have that kind of experience and connections when they are starting.

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@XmanPhD

5 months

This was part of Biko’s insistence that the category of Blackness was a material and political relation not simply a racial essence.

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@land2thetiller

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“I must state categorically that there is no such thing as a black policeman. Any black man who props the system up actively has lost the right to being considered part of the black world” — Steve Biko

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@XmanPhD

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@vanshv2k I’d love for them to agree to a trial for a year of neither parent attending his matches or traveling with him. At the end of the year assess.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

So, I realize I'm not going to be able to thank everyone personally, so I want to make sure that everyone knows I'm seeing all the love and support and that I'm so appreciative!

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@XmanPhD

2 years

@vanshv2k I think it was a team chemistry decision. I’ve always found the US team a bit too frat bro for my likes and I don’t see Ram fitting in with that dynamic. I get the consideration but I feel like you bring your best players and people put aside personality differences

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@XmanPhD

4 years

When people speak about abolishing the police this is partly what we’re discussing. Neither the police or psych hospital helped this woman. Also glad she knocked on this guy’s door. How many others in this gentrifying area would’ve ignored this woman or worse?

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@iTerryTommy

4 years

This is wild. Note how - even in what seems like a fairly easy to resolve scenario - the police were completely unhelpful but a citizen fixed the issue in a matter of minutes.

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would yield different results. He said of course X shot breaks down under pressure. Yet the player is blamed for not being mentally tough rather than the coach for not addressing poor/unnatural technique.

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@XmanPhD

10 months

@ProfDNgong Tbf depending on what university you go to and what courses you take you will not learn that the US is an empire even in tertiary education.

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@XmanPhD

1 year

@tennisnation I do wonder if it was triggered psychologically more so than physically particularly given the intensity of the end of that 2nd and the very beginning of the 3rd. I feel like if he can calm himself down a bit the cramps might ease.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@prof_carrington Also Venus who made the successful argument for equal pay for women at the Slams. She literally met with the stuffy officials at Wimbledon the night before her 2005 Championship match.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@VocalistLavanya @christophclarey Greek yoghurt is not a slur or xenophobic. Did you actually hear what Tiafoe said and did you actually understand the context in which it is being said? Go back and listen carefully. He did not use Greek yoghurt in a defamatory manner. Please stop with this.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

1 year

Hey folks. Just a little update on the work we’re doing to establish and grow Black Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Daniel White

@DanWhite39

1 year

The Black Studies minor at the University of California, Santa Cruz @ucsc @cresucsc @XmanPhD has grown in size and influence at a time when the United States continues to grapple with its long history of racism.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

@vanshv2k This next gen makes it difficult. Medvedev’s temper and racist rants, Zverev’s credible abuse allegations, Tsitsipas’ anti-vax stance. I can’t really get behind any of them. To be fair at least Med apologized for the racist rant but still.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

8 months

@MakeItWayne151 And then there’s racism. She wouldnt get half the hate she does if she were blonde thin and white let’s be honest.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

4 years

@_Nwai @lelowhatsgood White people are rewarded for studying, speaking, and teaching African languages. Black people are not. This is the thing that should change. I had some great Zulu lecturers but half of my instructors were non-Black when I took Zulu classes at UKZN in the early 00s.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

Wow! This is very nice news on a Friday. Thanks everyone who has supported me and the project. And congrats to all of the finalists.

Duke University Press

@DukePress

3 years

Congratulations to @NaminataDiabate and @XmanPhD ! Both “Naked Agency” and “Kwaito Bodies” are finalists for the @ASANewsOnline Best Book Prize.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

3 years

@TennisPublisher Everyone hates this, I don’t know why they don’t change it.

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Xavier Livermon

@XmanPhD

2 years

@Racquettechie Actually I like the Rich Mnisi collab with adidas, I generally like Mnisi’s stuff and I like a good African print. But I lived in South Africa for a few years and have a soft spot for when local (SA) talent can get global deals. The men’s outfit is horrid though!

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