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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen

@shaonta.bsky.social

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It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨ Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁 www.Linktree.com/ShaontaTheSociologist

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Nov 1

🚨 Excited to share my new article published at Social Problems that rethinks the field’s engagement w/ Liberation Sociology! When interviewing Black Millennials about their racial, religious, & political lives during Black Lives Matter, liberation came up a lot. This study examines those narratives.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Mik | Graphic Designer + Strategist @oksoboom.blacksky.app · 7d

Love to see it.

Because of Them We Can posted on FB:

She's a graduate of THE Ohio State University and Brooklyn Law School.
A member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
A political strategist.
A CNN commentator.
And now she's the owner of The Root. Returning the media company back to Black ownership.
Congratulations on this necessary shift back to Black!

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Political Strategist Ashley Allison, Acquires The Root, Returning it to Black Ownership

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Howard Ramos @somardrawoh.bsky.social · 7d

JOB @westernu.ca -Sociology - Assistant Professor (Health and the Life Course or Work and the Economy). Please send widely to anyone that might be interested. Happy to answer any Qs about it if you DM or email.

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TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY - Department of Sociology, Western University

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 13d

Assata Shakur
1947-2025

A black and white photo of a woman gesturing captioned "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them./~Assata Shakur"

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · 13d

My book, “Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook” w/ Simone Durham & @drjonessoc.bsky.social has been out for 3 months today! It offers an overview of the movement’s progress & controversies!

Order your copy today!! 📚

www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-liv...

#BlackLivesMatter #AcademicSky #Sociology

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · 15d

Classes started last week here at Dartmouth and I can already tell it’s going to be a great fall term! 🍁🍂 I’m teaching “Social Movements” again as well as a new “Black Sociology” course!! 🙌🏾✨ Grateful for another opportunity to think and learn with curious students! 💚🌲 #AcademicSky #Sociology

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 29d

Looking for an easy way to follow other members of ASA Religion? Look no further than this Starter Pack!

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Journal for Social Thought @jst-journal.bsky.social · 26d

✨ Looking for innovative ideas in sociology and the social sciences?

JST is a peer-reviewed, open access journal run by graduate students in Sociology at Western University (Canada). We publish works from grad students, post-docs, academics, and independent scholars.

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Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social · Aug 11

Fantastic panel on religion & politics at #ASA2025. New findings pushing the field forward:
- how political activism brings some people back to religion
- how people use similar cultural schema to talk about spirituality & politics
- racialized patterns in Christian nationalism & patriotism

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ditto. Great group. Thanks to organizers. Yes, to productive conversations, organizational collaboration, and collective action. "People-ing politics" political acitivities and policy proposals for regular people and not for politicians' dreams and personal aspirations, ambitions, fears and whims.

Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 10

So much fun at the political soc “People-ing Politics” riverboat reception last night along the Chicago River! Thanks to @blackcapitol.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social & @wendyyli.bsky.social for organizing! #ASA2025 #Sociology #AcademicSky @fisherdanar.bsky.social @michaelrosino.bsky.social

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 11

I think it may have been recorded!! Hopefully they will post it online!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Adam Gamoran @agamoran.bsky.social · Aug 10

Happening now at #ASA2025! @asanews.bsky.social has developed a great new toolkit on how departments can include community-engaged research in their tenure and promotion process www.asanet.org/public-engag...

Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit | American Sociological Association

ASA’s Shifting the Academic Ecology to Support Community-Engaged Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion in Sociology project establishes a framework that can be

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 9

😅😅😅 some of us need the reminder!!! lol

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 9

“At the heart of Black Feminist Thought is the belief in Black women’s humanity… It has resonated with various communities because there is something profoundly human at the root of that work”- PHC on 35 years of “Black Feminist Thought” 🐐 #ASA2025

Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 9

“Sociologists tend to be cheap. They tend to belief that talking the talking is enough but don’t commit themselves to walking the walk.” 🙃 #ASA2025 #Sociology

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 9

I wasn’t ready!! 😩🤣

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 9

PHC on embodying academic excellence:

-Always be self-critical of your work
-Don’t give up on the questions(s) that motivate you
-Be experimental, engage in “intellectual care work”
-Stay on your own path.. don’t wait around for the topic or the method of the day. Be epistemologically free #ASA2025

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 9

“If you are in the masters house, did you honestly think you would live there comfortably?”- PHC on resistance within the academy… 🫢🥴🫠 #ASA2025 #BlackFemSoc

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happening now! First Black woman ASA President, Patricia Hill Collins, in conversation with current ASA President Asia Harvey Wingfield! 🤎✨ #ASA2025 #BlackFeministThought #Sociology

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 8

Not sure how I left out the most important details!! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤣 #ASA2025

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 8

I’m also serving as a “curious reader” for Roger Baumann’s book, “Black Visions of the Holy Land,” on Monday morning! #ASR2025 #ASA2025 #Sociology #AcademicSky #Soc4Pal 🍉

Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · Aug 8

For the religion scholars headed to Chicago for the sociology meetings, make sure to pop into the #ASR2025 conference as well as #ASA2025!

On Sunday, I’ll be presenting some research from my book project on the “woke” politics of Black Christian Millennials! #Sociology #AcademicSky

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