Alondra Nelson
President @SSRC_org. Harold F. Linder Professor @the_IAS. Writing: @sociallifeofdna, Body and Soul, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Technicolor, Afrofuturism.
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Conversations with the Andrew Carnegie Fellows
Alondra Nelson
As a Carnegie Fellowship juror, I am pleased to moderate this discussion about anti-Black racism, policing and movements for change w/ @DanielGillion, Leith Mullings, @Laurence_Ralph. Join us on Thursday, July 9 at 12pm ET. Register here: carnegie.io/31Kyjmx #CarnegieFellows pic.twitter.com/Lj5odKSHE0
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George Floyd's death inspires an unlikely movement in Indonesia: Papuan Lives Matter
A court's surprisingly light sentences for seven Papuan activists highlights how far the Black Lives Matter protests have reverberated in Indonesia.
Cover Story: Kanye’s 2020 Vision
“Kanye West’s announcement of his intention to seek the Presidency means it’s not too early to start thinking about the 2020 campaign.”
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Alondra Nelson
Why is Covid-19 disproportionately impacting marginalized groups? A feedback loop of hypervisibility and surveillance. This important @amnesty report, “Policing the Pandemic,” details targeting with violence, quarantines and fines in 12 sites in Europe
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The Funambulist Podcast: ALONDRA NELSON /// The Black Panthers' Struggle Against the American Politics of Health on Apple Podcasts
Show The Funambulist Podcast, Ep ALONDRA NELSON /// The Black Panthers' Struggle Against the American Politics of Health - 19 Apr 2014
Refugees and Migrants – A Blind Spot in Ghana’s Covid-19 Response?
Some of the measures adopted by states to combat the Covid-19 pandemic pose challenges to non-citizens, particularly refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants. As noted by the Assistant Commissioner of the United...
Muslims and the American political imaginary during a pandemic
In these times of crisis, American Muslims have not been singled out for scrutiny by the media or the state. On the contrary, media coverage of their lives during the...
As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘an Enemy Within’
After plastic explosives and Nazi memorabilia were found at an elite soldier’s home, Germany worries about a problem of far-right infiltration at the heart of its democracy.
Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close
Yale has acquired a renowned private collection relating to the abolitionist and orator, including rarely seen family scrapbooks that offer a window onto his complicated private life.
Varieties of Covid-19 Expertise: The Pandemic in China, Hong Kong, and the United States
Countries around the world responded to news of the spread of Covid-19 differently. Some countries hit first by the pandemic, such as South Korea and Singapore, moved effectively to contain...
A Problem for College in the Fall: Reluctant Professors
Most universities plan to bring students back to campus. But many of their teachers are scared to join them.
Remdesivir, the First Coronavirus Drug, Gets a Price Tag
Federal health officials and Gilead Sciences have settled on priority distribution to Americans — and nonnegotiable pricing.
America’s Enduring Caste System
Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.
Alondra Nelson
“A caste system is an artificial construction...of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups...traits that would be neutral...are ascribed life-and-death meaning”-the great @Isabelwilkerson
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Soldiers were issued bayonets for DC unrest
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed a report by The Associated Press that some of the service members who were mobilized to Washington, D.C., last month...
Op-Ed: Americans are obsessed with 'rights.' In the pandemic, that's killing us
Americans have no right to have a beer at the bar or walk around unmasked, but we like to imagine that freedom means we're exempt from the law.
The Loss Of Public Goods To Big Tech - NOEMA
What has not been questioned enough during the COVID-19 crisis is unrelenting capitalism itself.
You Purged Racists From Your Website? Great, Now Get to Work
The Covid-19 infodemic taught social media giants like YouTube and Reddit an important lesson: They can—and must—take action to control the content on their sites.
Crisis Informatics and Mutual Aid during the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Research Agenda
People in the United States, though many are still homebound and separated in response to social distancing orders, are nonetheless finding ways to connect and support each other. Emergent, hyperlocal,...
Lessons from Conflict Studies on Research during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Over the past three months, pandemic spread of the novel coronavirus has transformed many of the foundational practices of the social world. These changes have sweeping repercussions for scholarship. For...