Ryan Cecil Jobson
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
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assistant prof @uchicago. black study. caribbean anthro. yaadie. anarcho-zesser. author of the petro-state masquerade ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 http://bit.ly/3z2Geyk. yankees. nets. jets. chelsea fc.
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My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!

Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!

Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
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At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Perfect timing if you’re still looking for a (digital) copy of my book. 🙏🏽
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transformanthro.bsky.social
Our spring issue is out! The issue, the first under the new editorial leadership of Christen Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson, features beautiful cover art by Madjeen Isaac and articles on Black geographies, queer Black hip-hop discographies, and state violence and “witch talk” in the DR.
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Our first issue under the editorial leadership of Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson begins with a letter to our readers marking a new chapter for the journal and grappling with the “struggle for liberation” that is the “very foundation of Black anthropology.”
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You can also read our inaugural editorial as Christen and I begin our three-year term at the helm of the journal. Stay tuned for the fall and beyond! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
To the Readers of Transforming Anthropology | Transforming Anthropology: Vol 33, No 1
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The spring issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social —and debut issue with my coeditor Christen Smith—is out! Read for articles on Black geographies, state violence in Haiti/Quisqeya, and queer hip hop genealogies. Thanks to Madjeen Isaac for the cover art! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
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“Foenem on that Popemobile”
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if South Side was still on the air, there would need to be a pope episode
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Yes, the Red Wedding is an extended metaphor here (but it was a lashing, indeed)! And plenty more to mull over on the common frustrations across Tobago and the southwest peninsula.
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This is so well done!

At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded.

I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹
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My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...
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Thank you, Matt. Hope you’re well, too!
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Thank you, Dylan. That means quite a lot coming from you. 🙏🏽
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My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...
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Tomorrow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Upstate fam—come through for a book talk and a T&T election debrief fresh from today’s polls.

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
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Me and Kartel go way back. 🙌🏽
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Thank you, World Boss, for ranking me on your list of favorite Caribbean intellectuals. 🙏🏽
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westofwestindian.bsky.social
“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”

Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛

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Poetry Written in the Margins of a Visa Application
reading Linzey Corridon at the intersection of border bureaucracy and soft cultural memory
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Some of you may recognize elements of this story as the inspirations for my short work of fiction, “Pork,” from @PreeLit. Now you can hear it from the man himself! t.co/aYpQXJdYHD
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My father’s story about class, color, currency, and (anti)communism in the Jamaican 1970s is now the subject of a Storyworth podcast episode. Grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with my Dad on this chapter in Caribbean history. t.co/157jzXndk1