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rjboutelle.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at University of Cincinnati. Author of The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny (UNC Press 2023). Stray Cat Whisperer. Slap Bet Commissioner.
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Job opening in a wonderful department! Happy to answer any questions folks might have! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/31113

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Buy my book and lots of others from Penn today for 50% off! www.pennpress.org/978151282647...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes –

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It’s great 👇👇👇

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth 🤝 Lady Macbeth have some bad ideas for the soldiers weird handwashing thing

submitted 111 days ago • 42 comments

looks like the cable news anchors are finally asking minor questions like “what does a mass deportation actually look like” and “are you going to deport citizen children?”

submitted 113 days ago • 661 comments

Something small to brighten the darkness: Boo, the feral cat I care for, let me scruff her and put her in my lap today. Big progress.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

My university sent me this certificate congratulating me on my promotion to “tenured full professor” (I was promoted to associate with tenure), so I can just submit this as my next promotion dossier, right?

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

Good morning. I recently created a starter pack called Mutual Aid for the Rebellion, which includes folks in immigration law, cultural historians, abortion access, and much more. It’s below, but following in a thread of other starter packs in kind—wave to be added to mine: go.bsky.app/QRfTWhT

submitted 114 days ago • 218 comments

One of my graduate students, Christian McCord, wrote this terrific piece on community organizing in Cincinnati’s West End based on his original research in my Black Archives grad course! www.aaihs.org/organizing-i...

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The Angelina Grimké diaries (from the Weld-Grimké Family Papers) are now online with full transcriptions and annotations by Anna Speicher. 🗃️ quod.lib.umich.edu/w/weldgrimke...

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

In G19 Collective's most recent forum, Dr. @rjboutelle.bsky.social speaks about his first book, The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny. Read the conversation here: sites.google.com/view/g19coll...

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Teaching Moby-Dick at the beginning of the spring semester is dangerous because sometimes the early chapters line up with a snow day and then you have to make clam chowder

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Happy cats-on-heating-vents season to all who celebrate!

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heated blanket is a big hit as we bunker down for the polar vortex

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The Ohio woman who was facing criminal charges after miscarrying in her bathroom will not be charged, a grand jury decided

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Teaching the capstone on Moby-Dick this semester and TIL that we need to go on a field trip across the river… www.citybeat.com/arts/norther...

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