Kellen Hoxworth
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY.
Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
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My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
2023: first child
2024: first book
2025: second child
I don’t know what 2026 will bring, but I can guarantee that it will not be my second book.
2024: first book
2025: second child
I don’t know what 2026 will bring, but I can guarantee that it will not be my second book.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
2023: first child
2024: first book
2025: second child
I don’t know what 2026 will bring, but I can guarantee that it will not be my second book.
2024: first book
2025: second child
I don’t know what 2026 will bring, but I can guarantee that it will not be my second book.
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How Trump understands "downsizing" government. Layoff services to the people. Bolster the police sate. Net growth, as the US civil service increasingly looks like a police state.
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How Trump understands "downsizing" government. Layoff services to the people. Bolster the police sate. Net growth, as the US civil service increasingly looks like a police state.
“Night of the Hunter” (1955) is a Christmas movie.
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“Night of the Hunter” (1955) is a Christmas movie.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
This is a glorious takedown of an inexplicably popular book.
Though I also have to our on my pedant hat to insist that it is not a contradiction for someone with “left” politics to also be an apologist for imperialism. For much of the 19th century, liberals were the imperialists!
Though I also have to our on my pedant hat to insist that it is not a contradiction for someone with “left” politics to also be an apologist for imperialism. For much of the 19th century, liberals were the imperialists!
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is a glorious takedown of an inexplicably popular book.
Though I also have to our on my pedant hat to insist that it is not a contradiction for someone with “left” politics to also be an apologist for imperialism. For much of the 19th century, liberals were the imperialists!
Though I also have to our on my pedant hat to insist that it is not a contradiction for someone with “left” politics to also be an apologist for imperialism. For much of the 19th century, liberals were the imperialists!
Babies really have no respect for the eight-hour workday. They just expect to be born whenever they please…
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Babies really have no respect for the eight-hour workday. They just expect to be born whenever they please…
Petition to start calling the DM function of LLMs a “Digital Mephistopheles.”
@hypervisible.blacksky.app @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Petition to start calling the DM function of LLMs a “Digital Mephistopheles.”
@hypervisible.blacksky.app @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
@hypervisible.blacksky.app @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
One of them funded my research trip to the British Library, so the joke was on him.
When I was researching my book on blackface throughout the British Empire, *several* Brits both insisted that blackface was a US thing *and* that they remembered the BBC’s Black and White Minstrel Show fondly.
My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
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It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
💙📚
📚👀
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
One of them funded my research trip to the British Library, so the joke was on him.
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My biggest fear when visiting a foreign country is that after a day of wandering I'll happen upon a little museum of me. Shuffling along with other tourists through rooms of my discarded effects and lost memories, unable to translate the labels. Learning nothing about myself.
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
My biggest fear when visiting a foreign country is that after a day of wandering I'll happen upon a little museum of me. Shuffling along with other tourists through rooms of my discarded effects and lost memories, unable to translate the labels. Learning nothing about myself.
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morbidly sociologically curious about whether there's a relationship between this and the clustering of right wingers on Truth Social + exodus of libs and the left from Twitter, etc
“.. It's still overwhelmingly pro-Trump — but less relevant .. These days, MAGA can spend more time eating its own than feasting on liberals or establishment Republicans.”
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November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
morbidly sociologically curious about whether there's a relationship between this and the clustering of right wingers on Truth Social + exodus of libs and the left from Twitter, etc
Thanks, I hAIte it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Thanks, I hAIte it.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We have an entire chattering class with the moral and philosophical sophistication of the creators of South Park.
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We have an entire chattering class with the moral and philosophical sophistication of the creators of South Park.
Just came across a citation of my scholarship, except it is a completely inaccurate citation that bears all the hallmarks of AI generated BS.
Where do I put this on my CV?
Where do I put this on my CV?
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Just came across a citation of my scholarship, except it is a completely inaccurate citation that bears all the hallmarks of AI generated BS.
Where do I put this on my CV?
Where do I put this on my CV?
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This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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one thing that's nice about canceling your New York Times sub is every week you get at least one or two stories shared on here that make you say, "yeah, it rocks that I did that, I only wish I could do it again." highly recommend you cancel yours if you haven't already
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
one thing that's nice about canceling your New York Times sub is every week you get at least one or two stories shared on here that make you say, "yeah, it rocks that I did that, I only wish I could do it again." highly recommend you cancel yours if you haven't already
New higher ed agenda:
Learn to code switch.
Learn to code switch.
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New higher ed agenda:
Learn to code switch.
Learn to code switch.
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Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
Sounds like the price of rent is going to stabilize all on its own then, huh?
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sounds like the price of rent is going to stabilize all on its own then, huh?
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Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
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"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/