Hajar Yazdiha
Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaBeen tracking the college football playoff with Gene Hackman movies
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaAs of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
- JUST IN: This morning, hundreds of baristas have joined our national ULP strike. ☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause. Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaBlack-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaMy colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
- ⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaCheck out this new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History focused on "Immigration and Citizenship" edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
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- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaUSC IS OUT! Let me tell y'all, the emergency meetings that got called yesterday and today... dailytrojan.com/2025/10/16/u...
- Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr...
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdiha🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaThis is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.
- @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaMy husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdiha“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaSpeaking as someone with experience: stuff like this reveals both a) how pissed off sources are and b) who the respected reporters are among people who know their stuff, who may not be at the outlets you expect!!
- three generals/admirals?? talking to the Intercept??? bsky.app/profile/tank...
- 📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaIn the authoritarian playbook, rewriting collective memory is just this critical strategy for controlling the masses," Hajar Yazdiha..." #Pinks www.axios.com/2025/08/30/h...
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdiha"A CLASP study from 2018 found that children as young as 3 experienced behavioral changes–like frequent crying, separation anxiety, and sleep problems–due to the loss of a parent or the fear of losing a parent. www.clasp.org/publications...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaThere's a moment in the Trump regime's America 250 propaganda that takes a swipe at the 1619 Project as "revisionist history." Well, about that ...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaCUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaA reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaIf you are employed and feel bad for people losing their careers over politics you share with them, there is one thing and one thing only you can do to help them: FIND THEM WORK. Use EVERY lever of power you have to FIND THEM WORK. Don’t send them job apps, MAKE A JOB FOR THEM. That’s ALL they need
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdiha📢Hot off the presses by Profs @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and Courtney Boen at Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaFriends I’m running a 5K in Brooklyn on October 12 as a fundraiser for Gaza & UNRWA. If you can, join us or donate here! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaThe president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaColloquium on Black and Indigenous Women's History 👇🏾
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdiha🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
- ✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaPeople are very down on the idea of racial justice because they can only see the progress that's already been made. Join us with @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social to explore how true reckoning transforms healing—not by ignoring the past, but by creating accountability we haven't yet tried. Tune in!
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- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaY'all! Register for my workshop with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social coming up September 17! For fiction writers of all levels. All proceeds are going directly to support mutual aid in Gaza.
- Sign up for our workshop with novelist Chantal James (@chantalalive.bsky.social) for "Storytelling out of your people and for your people" on September 17th, online!! This workshop supports the Sameer Project's urgently needed Medical Campaign. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/sto...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaFor grad students in Black Studies www.agatheringtogether.com/undiscipline...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaListen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1uPA...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaThank you @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social for making the process of myth making transparent! This is a fantastic conversation on racism and American exceptionalism.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaTOMORROW: We’re joined by @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the @USCDornsife college of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Tune in tomorrow!🎙
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaIt is great to hear that @democracyforward.org and @asanews.bsky.social won their lawsuit against the Trump administration.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaNo one ever asks nonfiction writers about style so I just wanted to share 2 style points, and to thank @hammerandhope.bsky.social for an editorial process that absolutely got it. Writing is always collaborative even with one name on the byline and editors are great. hammerandhope.org/article/kenya-
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaI'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaMy article on activism and coalition building is out now at Time! Shout out to the folks at Made by History. We need multiracial coalitions now more than ever! time.com/7307042/hist...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaSSN and our chapter leaders look forward to #ASA2025 in Chicago! Please stop by and say hello!
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaI just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.
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- ⬇️ Sharing my brilliant student’s call for participants - please feel free to share widely!
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaThe Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice (LFJ) program is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series — with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries — to resist current efforts aimed at altering our nation’s history. www.splcenter.org/resources/ho...
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdiha🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaWish you hadn’t. You told the truth. Wish you’d held to it and we’d seen the consequences when a leading columnist tells the truth and the “paper of record” punished him for telling the truth. There is a much higher calling than the NYT social media policy: the truth!
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdihaleftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaThis thread about how we have white-washed (and more) the period prior to WWII should be read alongside @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social's The Struggle for the People's King that tells a similar story of the struggle for civil rights. Seems like the same process of historical retelling post-hoc.
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaVery excited for our final distinguished speaker of this year for the UCSB series. @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social!!! Tomorrow at noon @ucsbsocialsciences.bsky.social
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaOr that Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as Thomas Jefferson AND Ronald Reagan.
- Reposted by Hajar Yazdiha"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- Reposted by Hajar YazdihaVery excited for our final Distinguished Speaker in this year's series at UCSB Sociology: the recently TENURED Associate Professor @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social! She'll be speaking about "The Struggle for the People's King." Join us if you're around.
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