Ansley Erickson
@ansleyerickson.bsky.social
US cities & schools, historically.
Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem.
Thoughts here represent me, not my employer.
www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11
nyccivilrightshistory.org
Also 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ and I♥️NYC.
Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem.
Thoughts here represent me, not my employer.
www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11
nyccivilrightshistory.org
Also 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ and I♥️NYC.
Happy Sunday from the fall garden
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy Sunday from the fall garden
Missing you today. Imperfect, hurting people can still give perfect unconditional love.
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Missing you today. Imperfect, hurting people can still give perfect unconditional love.
The orchid is preparing to make blooms. Growth, regeneration, beauty still lay ahead.
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The orchid is preparing to make blooms. Growth, regeneration, beauty still lay ahead.
Good morning from Providence!
Small pleasures fuel the fight.
Small pleasures fuel the fight.
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Good morning from Providence!
Small pleasures fuel the fight.
Small pleasures fuel the fight.
My city on its best day of the year #nycmarathon
(Sound on!)
(Sound on!)
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
My city on its best day of the year #nycmarathon
(Sound on!)
(Sound on!)
Totally my favorite marathon sign/family support station
November 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Totally my favorite marathon sign/family support station
Best day in the best city, period.
November 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Best day in the best city, period.
New Yorkers, join us! #mayoralcontrol
(and think about mayoral control when you #vote before this panel!)
(and think about mayoral control when you #vote before this panel!)
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
New Yorkers, join us! #mayoralcontrol
(and think about mayoral control when you #vote before this panel!)
(and think about mayoral control when you #vote before this panel!)
For some CEO/VC ish Ed Tech event at Columbia my clever and rightly skeptical colleagues made an exhibit of Dead Tech. Learning machines, laptop for every child, School of the Air, and Smartboard mania. Brilliant and necessary rebuttal.
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
For some CEO/VC ish Ed Tech event at Columbia my clever and rightly skeptical colleagues made an exhibit of Dead Tech. Learning machines, laptop for every child, School of the Air, and Smartboard mania. Brilliant and necessary rebuttal.
Join this community forum to help NPS and ASALH design a plan for National Historic Landmark designation for Black public secondary schools.
Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.
Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.
October 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Join this community forum to help NPS and ASALH design a plan for National Historic Landmark designation for Black public secondary schools.
Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.
Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.
All work and no plays makes me a dull boy.
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
All work and no plays makes me a dull boy.
I found Klein's dismissal of historical perspective especially infuriating because Coates, in insisting on recognizing basic humanity, is calling up the long Black tradition of working from exactly that point. Rather than tolerating otherwise.
Eg, WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction, 1934
Eg, WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction, 1934
September 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I found Klein's dismissal of historical perspective especially infuriating because Coates, in insisting on recognizing basic humanity, is calling up the long Black tradition of working from exactly that point. Rather than tolerating otherwise.
Eg, WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction, 1934
Eg, WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction, 1934
Woke up with the Sanskrit phrase Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (May all Beings Everywhere be Happy and Free) running through my head.
[Yesp, 1000% cliché 2000s white lady who practiced yoga. And still,]
Thank you universe, this is what I need to hear right now.
[Yesp, 1000% cliché 2000s white lady who practiced yoga. And still,]
Thank you universe, this is what I need to hear right now.
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Woke up with the Sanskrit phrase Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (May all Beings Everywhere be Happy and Free) running through my head.
[Yesp, 1000% cliché 2000s white lady who practiced yoga. And still,]
Thank you universe, this is what I need to hear right now.
[Yesp, 1000% cliché 2000s white lady who practiced yoga. And still,]
Thank you universe, this is what I need to hear right now.
Phase 4. Clear the remaining pine-and-kudzu woods and some houses to built data centers and the massive power corridors that feed them, encouraged by tax credits that help businesses more than residents.
September 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Phase 4. Clear the remaining pine-and-kudzu woods and some houses to built data centers and the massive power corridors that feed them, encouraged by tax credits that help businesses more than residents.
Phase 3: Strip value from these suburbs via subprime mortgage lending and foreclosure.
September 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Phase 3: Strip value from these suburbs via subprime mortgage lending and foreclosure.
Phase 2: Convert ex-farmland to dollars through the making of segregated white suburb/exurbia, 1960s-1990s
September 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Phase 2: Convert ex-farmland to dollars through the making of segregated white suburb/exurbia, 1960s-1990s
There is a Georgia highway I know well, having ridden its ribbons of asphalt as a child, a teen, and a home-for-a-visit adult for half a century.
It’s a history of racial capitalism.
Phase 1: Pull value from the soil through enslaved labor and unfree sharecropping labor, to the mid-20thC
It’s a history of racial capitalism.
Phase 1: Pull value from the soil through enslaved labor and unfree sharecropping labor, to the mid-20thC
September 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There is a Georgia highway I know well, having ridden its ribbons of asphalt as a child, a teen, and a home-for-a-visit adult for half a century.
It’s a history of racial capitalism.
Phase 1: Pull value from the soil through enslaved labor and unfree sharecropping labor, to the mid-20thC
It’s a history of racial capitalism.
Phase 1: Pull value from the soil through enslaved labor and unfree sharecropping labor, to the mid-20thC
Nick Juravich tonight at Teachers College, on his great new book on “how schools shaped not just individual students through instruction, but also the distribution of employment opportunities, paths for political participation, and the process of community formation in the city.”
#histed #union
#histed #union
September 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’ve swum almost 20 kilometers this month. 👏🏼💪🏻🕺🏻🏊♀️
September 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I’ve swum almost 20 kilometers this month. 👏🏼💪🏻🕺🏻🏊♀️
Found this little guy on the 17 yo’s sketch pad.
September 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Found this little guy on the 17 yo’s sketch pad.
Despite [gestures at the whole world, local and global] it has been a glorious summer in this northeast garden.
August 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Despite [gestures at the whole world, local and global] it has been a glorious summer in this northeast garden.
August = zinnias
August 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
August = zinnias
A seagull hovered high over a Tesla in an East End parking lot and dropped a rock (or heavy oyster) square into its back glass, shattering it.
Even the seagulls can fight fascism.
Even the seagulls can fight fascism.
August 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A seagull hovered high over a Tesla in an East End parking lot and dropped a rock (or heavy oyster) square into its back glass, shattering it.
Even the seagulls can fight fascism.
Even the seagulls can fight fascism.
Honored to have this work in the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Handbook of Education Policy Research, edited by @janellescott.bsky.social Peter Youngs & Lora Cohen-Vogel.
HMU if you want a pdf. Whole book is a whopper!
HMU if you want a pdf. Whole book is a whopper!
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Honored to have this work in the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Handbook of Education Policy Research, edited by @janellescott.bsky.social Peter Youngs & Lora Cohen-Vogel.
HMU if you want a pdf. Whole book is a whopper!
HMU if you want a pdf. Whole book is a whopper!