Andrew J Douglas
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | in-progress books = du bois and political economy + theories of money in the black radical tradition | marathoner | posts ≠ employer
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Andrew J Douglas
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Toward the Cooperative University: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Membership in the AAUP
In 1937, at the tender age of sixty-nine, W. E. B. Du Bois paid a $4 membership fee and joined the American Association of University Professors. Du Bois was several years into his second stint as a p...
www.aaup.org
Since I’ve now completely abandoned the other site and am still relatively new here, I’ll flag a few pieces I published this year.
For @aaup.bsky.social on Du Bois, higher ed labor, and the idea of the university as a member cooperative. 1/
www.aaup.org/article/towa...
For @aaup.bsky.social on Du Bois, higher ed labor, and the idea of the university as a member cooperative. 1/
www.aaup.org/article/towa...
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Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
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I’ve seen enough. Luddism is the way. Smash the machines.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’ve seen enough. Luddism is the way. Smash the machines.
Off to Puerto Rico and ASA for a panel on Du Bois and imperialism.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Off to Puerto Rico and ASA for a panel on Du Bois and imperialism.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
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New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social
Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
@campolis.bsky.social
Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
@campolis.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social
Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
@campolis.bsky.social
Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
@campolis.bsky.social
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ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
“We must not look away. We must not move on… Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“We must not look away. We must not move on… Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An aircraft carrier strike group heads toward Venezuela amidst threats of direct military action. Erica Caines of the Black Alliance for Peace, an organization calling for a week of action in solidarity with Venezuela, joins us from Baltimore.
www.blackagendareport.com/week-action-...
www.blackagendareport.com/week-action-...
Week of Action in Solidarity with Venezuela | Black Agenda Report
The U.S. regime change effort against Venezuela has recently intensified with the killings of Venezuelans, Trinidadians, and Colombians said to be drug traffickers, the latest salvo in the long U.S. w...
www.blackagendareport.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
An aircraft carrier strike group heads toward Venezuela amidst threats of direct military action. Erica Caines of the Black Alliance for Peace, an organization calling for a week of action in solidarity with Venezuela, joins us from Baltimore.
www.blackagendareport.com/week-action-...
www.blackagendareport.com/week-action-...
Too many writing projects, too little time.
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Too many writing projects, too little time.
Honored to be a part of this symposium tomorrow.
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Honored to be a part of this symposium tomorrow.
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
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Hopefully people are remembering that sexual assault victims can read what they’re saying
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Hopefully people are remembering that sexual assault victims can read what they’re saying
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
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November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“The Public Grant-Making Bank represents a critical mechanism for fiscal insurgency… a profound political act that challenges the hegemonic conception of money as a fundamentally capitalist tool.”
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
✨ New Essay! ✨
We argue that loan-based finance perpetuates capitalist interests & constraints that undercut efforts to address social & climate crises. Public banking is vital, to be sure; but we must fight for public banks that are empowered to issue grants, not merely loans.
Please share! 👩💻 🙌
We argue that loan-based finance perpetuates capitalist interests & constraints that undercut efforts to address social & climate crises. Public banking is vital, to be sure; but we must fight for public banks that are empowered to issue grants, not merely loans.
Please share! 👩💻 🙌
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
moneyontheleft.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“The Public Grant-Making Bank represents a critical mechanism for fiscal insurgency… a profound political act that challenges the hegemonic conception of money as a fundamentally capitalist tool.”
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.
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I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
The Politics of Hunger in Sudan – Transition Magazine
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
No war on Venezuela.
Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise
Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise
USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival marks the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989
The US navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.
The deployment of the ship and the strike group it leads – which includes dozens of aircraft and destroyer ships – had been announced nearly three weeks ago, and its arrival marks an escalation in the military buildup between the US and Venezuela. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
No war on Venezuela.
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People shouldn't forget that the first domino setting off tonight's capitulation came from the American Federation of Government Employees two weeks ago
Millions of American workers are now going to lose their health care
What ever happened to solidarity?
Millions of American workers are now going to lose their health care
What ever happened to solidarity?
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
People shouldn't forget that the first domino setting off tonight's capitulation came from the American Federation of Government Employees two weeks ago
Millions of American workers are now going to lose their health care
What ever happened to solidarity?
Millions of American workers are now going to lose their health care
What ever happened to solidarity?
These millionaires in the Senate just keep proving Nyerere’s point. Or Du Bois’s for that matter.The US remains a one-party state, and with all the vestiges of American extravagance, we still have two of them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
These millionaires in the Senate just keep proving Nyerere’s point. Or Du Bois’s for that matter.The US remains a one-party state, and with all the vestiges of American extravagance, we still have two of them.
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I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maryland’s public pension fund raised its Israeli bond holdings to $74 million in 2024.
truthout.org/articles/mar...
truthout.org/articles/mar...
Maryland Workers Are Fighting to Divest Their Pensions From Israel’s Genocide
Maryland’s public pension fund raised its Israeli bond holdings to $74 million in 2024.
truthout.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Maryland’s public pension fund raised its Israeli bond holdings to $74 million in 2024.
truthout.org/articles/mar...
truthout.org/articles/mar...
“Working-class Black Atlantans frequently defended their neighbors by running off policemen as they attempted to make arrests for petty crimes.”
Stories of collective self-defense from the late 19th c. These are the histories we need to build on.
Stories of collective self-defense from the late 19th c. These are the histories we need to build on.
In 1901, "11,502 Black men, women, boys, and girls were arrested, comprising 64.5 percent of total arrests. Atlanta’s Black population was approximately 36,000." @jboothhistory.bsky.social on Atlanta's long history of racist policing
Stop Cop City’s Deep Roots - Jonathon Booth - Inquest
For 150 years, Atlanta has endured racist policing that has served the interest of the city’s economic elite. The fight to resist this “Atlanta way” goes back just as far.
inquest.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“Working-class Black Atlantans frequently defended their neighbors by running off policemen as they attempted to make arrests for petty crimes.”
Stories of collective self-defense from the late 19th c. These are the histories we need to build on.
Stories of collective self-defense from the late 19th c. These are the histories we need to build on.
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More reporting from the Israeli press seems to further confirm that the US has effectively taken over day to day decision making from the Israelis on Gaza— exacerbating fears in both the government and opposition that a precedent has been set for the internationalization of the Palestinian question.
US sidelining Israel on decision-making at Gaza ceasefire HQ, official says
Israeli liaison unit said relegated to contractor role in Gaza aid; US includes entire Trump 20-point peace plan in UN resolution establishing international Gaza force
www.timesofisrael.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
More reporting from the Israeli press seems to further confirm that the US has effectively taken over day to day decision making from the Israelis on Gaza— exacerbating fears in both the government and opposition that a precedent has been set for the internationalization of the Palestinian question.