Society for Cultural Anthropology
Challenging the boundaries of the discipline since 1983. Account managed by a volunteer team of Contributing Editors. Posts this week by Social Media Team.
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- In solidarity with the statewide shutdown in Minnesota protesting ICE/CBP, I'm sharing some of the most insightful reads about the powerful, beautiful community response there - these pieces should inspire similar collective action everywhere. please link to others.
- ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
- NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father. They remain in a Texas immigration detention center. The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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- Stephen Miller's terror state is employing lawless violence against Americans to dissuade them from standing in the way of his ethnic cleansing project. Excited that @theunpopulist.net has reprinted our piece on the roots of his white nationalism. Check it out: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
- Gary Larson, zoological prophet.
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- COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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- “Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
- “ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.” This is visible in many of the videos. Thank you for explaining.
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- Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
- The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
- I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
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- Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee
- “The suspension of Mel Curth, a graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma (OU), stemming from a grading dispute with a student, is an egregious violation of widely accepted principles of academic freedom and due process.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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- Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).
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- Hoping to join anthropology & activism in protest of the U.S. illegalization system, I decided to break the law. On Dec. 10, 2013, 7 activists & I rose early. We chained ourselves together & laid down in the snow outside the Elizabeth Detention Center, a 300-bed facility operated on behalf of ICE.
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- In 2018, we published the Hot Spots series "Im/migration in the Trump Era." The series sought to generate discussion between scholars & activists working in the US about the potentials & challenges of practicing engaged anthropology with (im)migrants.
- “It's disappointing to see universities fold under pressure to terminate faculty for expressing themselves online, as if the First Amendment is an expediency to be discarded at a whim.”
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- “We urge OU to publicly and unequivocally affirm the right of OU faculty and instructors to conduct teaching, grading, and research without political interference, unlawful mandates, or external pressures that hinder academic freedom.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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- A text that was influential to me as precocious final-year undergrad, writing a short senior thesis and trying to decide if it was morally correct for me to pursue further studies in anthropology. RIP.
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- AAUP Portland State University secured a crucial win: Admin will reinstate laid-off faculty & comply with an arbitration decision after violating @psuaaup.bsky.social's contract. This win proves that higher ed unions are key to protecting faculty livelihood at our universities. Read more here👇
- Just want to note: Part of what we're missing is *exactly* what we're all doing in this thread folks! Just sayin. #anthrosky
- In a week, Texas A&M goes from censoring Plato to canceling Dr. Leonard Bright's Ethics & Public Policy course on unfounded allegations it taught "race & gender ideology." “The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.” — @drleonardbright.bsky.social
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