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Ken Wissoker

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Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · May 12

Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 22h

Major props to Ideas on Fire author Bimbola Akinbola, whose new book Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🎉

www.dukeupress.edu/transatlanti...

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Cover of Transatlantic Disbelonging, with collage art showing women's faces, a jaguar in a suit, and metal fencing

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to @ktgerbs.bsky.social —her new book tracing how British colonial authorities in mid-18th c. Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans, is out this month. Can’t wait to read and assign it!!

Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with
@dukepress.bsky.social in October!

Book cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 17h

Be sure to check out this upcoming virtual event featuring a round table with Dr. @emmaamador.bsky.social and her new book, The Politics of Care Work.

@drsarahmac.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18h

Save 30% on #NewBook "Racial Care" by @jmcmaster29.bsky.social, which studies the forms of care that Asian Americans have taken up to survive the suffering they experience under neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy in the United States. #AsianAmericanStudies
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Cover of Racial Care: On Asian American Suffering and Survival by James McMaster. Features an illustration of a dark starry sky background featuring a large, glowing pink rectangular frame in the center. Inside the frame, the subtitle is in white text. Around the frame, there are silhouettes of people walking along a winding, illuminated path through a colorful landscape with mountains and red lanterns floating in the air. The title is at the top in large white letters, and the author's name is at the bottom. Red petals are scattered throughout the scene.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d

I love it here

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 2d

Two very good essays on the selected writings of Okwui Enwezor, recently published by Duke University Press. One is by Oluremi C. Onabanjo:

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Okwui Enwezor

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Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social · 1d

On shelter, accountability, and repair. And FEMA trailers. An account that only gets more timely, from my colleague Nick Shapiro, from Duke university Press. www.dukeupress.edu/homesick

Homesick

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 4d

Back when trans studies actually *was* relatively new, rather than continually being reinscribed as such! Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998: www.chronicle.com/article/tran...

Dr. Gilbert is among a growing cadre of “trans” people on campuses who are going public. Organizations for gay, lesbian, and bisexual students have already begun tacking a “T” on the end of their names to embrace “transgendered” or “transsexual” students. In the past year, students and professors have also pushed universities to extend protection to transgendered people under policies that prevent discrimination against minorities.

What’s more, work by transgendered scholars is making transgender studies a hot new topic. One of the most important contributions to the field, a transgender issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, edited by Susan Stryker, is due out next month from Duke University Press. A flurry of other publications on the topic is expected this spring and summer, and transsexual academics have started an electronic mailing list on the subject. (Those interested in joining the list, called “transacademic,” can send an e-mail message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk)

“We are pioneering a new field of scholarship,” says Dr. Stryker, an independent scholar, who changed from male to female in 1991, a year before earning her Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley. “This whole area is going to become an increasingly big social concern over the next decade.”

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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 4d

Forthcoming (April 2026): The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - Edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam | Duke University Press | More information can be found here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia...

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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Erica Moiah James on the publication of her book, “After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary.” This is the newest title in the Duke University Press series The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas, edited by Kellie Jones and me. dukeupress.edu/after-caliban

After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23h

Today on the blog, Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social discusses the new revised & expanded edition of her book "Policing Black Lives," explaining its continued relevance to students, scholars, & activists around the world.
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A brown skinned woman with long dreadlocs parted to one side looks at the camera without smiling. She wears a white tank top and a pendant necklace.

Cover of Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard. The background features a grainy, black-and-white image of a Black individual facing a wall. The person's posture and the ruler markings adjacent to the figure suggest that the image is a mugshot. The entire cover has a gritty feel and is overlaid with a grainy, stippled texture. The title text is bold and distressed.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 1d

“We need to understand border enforcement & borders as ensembles mixing the social & technical in the management of inclusion and exclusion.”

New at PB: Iván Chaar López introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).

Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books

The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Read the Editor's Introduction and "Policing and the Carceral State in Brazil and the United States: Conceptualizing, Tracking, and Resisting Anti-Black Violence," both freely available: buff.ly/DtgmUre

Buy this issue: buff.ly/0HuYdcv

Milestones and Momentum: The Meridians Project at Twenty-Five

An issue of: Meridians

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

"Milestones and Momentum: The Meridians Project at Twenty-Five" solidifies Meridians as a vital platform for transnational feminist scholarship by addressing critical and timely topics, including racial capitalism, queer poetics, and feminist resistance. View the TOC: buff.ly/DtgmUre

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to be giving an Anthropologies of Tomorrow Lecture at Purdue on October 27. I'll be talking about Beautiful Mystery with Sherri Briller. It's open to the public! Thanks to Kali Rubaii for the kind invitation!
@dukepress.bsky.social

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 2d

And on November 5, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant writer and thinker Rachel Adams at Columbia!
@dukepress.bsky.social

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Read an excerpt from Uri McMillan's new book "Mavericks of Style" in @artnews.com.web.brid.gy:

ARTnews.com @artnews.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

How Grace Jones and Ming Smith Met as Models and Became Artistic Allies

A sense of triumph is evident in the photographic magic Smith and Jones conjured.

www.artnews.com

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