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Proud to have worked with you!!

So proud of you!

It was an honor to be hooded by my chair @ajescoffery.bsky.social

@ajescoffery.bsky.social writes about reconstruction and reparative media.

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So I’m going to social media to ask my professor friends: is this true? Are y’all removing books by Black authors critiquing structural harm from your syllabi for fear of retribution?

The final nail in the coffin was when they said we would have to pay thousands of dollars to the press because no one would buy the book due to the anti-DEI backlash in the States.

Imagine: asking Black scholars to pay a white press money to publish a book about reparations!

Helping people understand how these corporations have historically perpetuated a toxic cultural climate is ESSENTIAL to understanding the moment. Now that systems are falling apart is the perfect time to think about repair.

This is wild to say at a time when most of the world’s most divisive leaders — in the U.S., China, Russia, India and more — have built their followings through media. The current US President would not be without NBC/Fox News, Facebook/Twitter/Truth, the manosphere, and now his own cryptocurrency.

One of the board’s critiques was the fact that we focused on offering a framework for harm in media and tech, instead of outlining what reparations will look like. At the same time, they say that in the current political climate, reparations seem impossible, so the book is irrelevant.

Our book is Media Reparations. We spend most of the book making the case that media has a 100+ year history of perpetuating harm to Black, indigenous and many other communities while also offering a brief framework and examples of what repair could look like.