Jacob Ivey
@iveyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of the British Empire in South Africa and anti-apartheid movements in Florida.
Associate Professor of History at Florida Memorial University in Miami
Associate Professor of History at Florida Memorial University in Miami
After almost five years, my book has finally been released this month. It doesn't feel quite real, but it's finally over the finish line.
Is it perfect? Hell no, but I'm proud of what I've put out, which will hopefully give just the smallest bit of greater clarity to this period of history.
Is it perfect? Hell no, but I'm proud of what I've put out, which will hopefully give just the smallest bit of greater clarity to this period of history.
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
After almost five years, my book has finally been released this month. It doesn't feel quite real, but it's finally over the finish line.
Is it perfect? Hell no, but I'm proud of what I've put out, which will hopefully give just the smallest bit of greater clarity to this period of history.
Is it perfect? Hell no, but I'm proud of what I've put out, which will hopefully give just the smallest bit of greater clarity to this period of history.
A review I wrote for Charles' wonderful new book just hit the pages of the AHR. Give it a read and then get the book.
Charles G. Thomas. Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–1979 url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Charles G. Thomas. Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–1979 url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Charles G. Thomas. Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–1979
Charles Thomas’s book Ujamaa’s Army is a welcome addition to the history of East African military structures while also providing a necessary insight into
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January 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
A review I wrote for Charles' wonderful new book just hit the pages of the AHR. Give it a read and then get the book.
Charles G. Thomas. Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–1979 url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Charles G. Thomas. Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–1979 url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Was able to lend my previously recorded voice to a new segment on the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Gainesville for #FloridaFrontiers' most recent episode. Gives me some incentive to finish this chapter of the book!
myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/ra...
myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/ra...
Florida Frontiers Radio Program #587
myfloridahistory.org
April 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Was able to lend my previously recorded voice to a new segment on the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Gainesville for #FloridaFrontiers' most recent episode. Gives me some incentive to finish this chapter of the book!
myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/ra...
myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/ra...
I've had the pleasure to see Rochelle present her work in person at @batw.bsky.social's annual conference and I'm very much looking forward to giving this a read.
It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art.
'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art'
Read full article here👇🏾
doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...
image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein
@womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art'
Read full article here👇🏾
doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...
image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein
@womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I've had the pleasure to see Rochelle present her work in person at @batw.bsky.social's annual conference and I'm very much looking forward to giving this a read.
Worth a read on the day I cover the German American Bund during the 1930s...
africasacountry.com/2022/10/slee...
africasacountry.com/2022/10/slee...
Sleepwalking into fascism
That reactionary politics today lack a mass character is what makes them so dangerous.
africasacountry.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Worth a read on the day I cover the German American Bund during the 1930s...
africasacountry.com/2022/10/slee...
africasacountry.com/2022/10/slee...
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a grant from the ACLS HBCU Faculty awards to help fund my current book project on the anti-apartheid movement in Florida. It's a great honor and wonderful incentive to get this book done! www.acls.org/news/acls-an...
ACLS Announces 2025 ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellows and Grantees
Awards support research of 20 faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
www.acls.org
March 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a grant from the ACLS HBCU Faculty awards to help fund my current book project on the anti-apartheid movement in Florida. It's a great honor and wonderful incentive to get this book done! www.acls.org/news/acls-an...
102 is a great life. The woman loved football and her father's franchise. It would have been great if she could have seen another Super Bowl. #DaBears
www.wbez.org/obituary/202...
www.wbez.org/obituary/202...
Bears matriarch Virginia McCaskey dies at 102
She inherited the Bears from her father in 1983, one of the few women in sports to hold such a powerful position.
www.wbez.org
February 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
102 is a great life. The woman loved football and her father's franchise. It would have been great if she could have seen another Super Bowl. #DaBears
www.wbez.org/obituary/202...
www.wbez.org/obituary/202...
Repost of one of my most substantial threads from Twitter.
As divestment protests on FL campuses grew last year, I thought it helpful to understand the history of similar protests that took place across FL related to the anti-apartheid movement. While not a perfect parallel, similarities remain.🧵
As divestment protests on FL campuses grew last year, I thought it helpful to understand the history of similar protests that took place across FL related to the anti-apartheid movement. While not a perfect parallel, similarities remain.🧵
January 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Repost of one of my most substantial threads from Twitter.
As divestment protests on FL campuses grew last year, I thought it helpful to understand the history of similar protests that took place across FL related to the anti-apartheid movement. While not a perfect parallel, similarities remain.🧵
As divestment protests on FL campuses grew last year, I thought it helpful to understand the history of similar protests that took place across FL related to the anti-apartheid movement. While not a perfect parallel, similarities remain.🧵
Beginning the academic year of 2025 with low attendance, high student uncertainty and confusion, and an ever-filling inbox of service and bureaucratic requests from admin. Looks like 2025 is just going to be nothing new; only difference I'll need to find time to finish writing another manuscript.
January 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Beginning the academic year of 2025 with low attendance, high student uncertainty and confusion, and an ever-filling inbox of service and bureaucratic requests from admin. Looks like 2025 is just going to be nothing new; only difference I'll need to find time to finish writing another manuscript.
I really need to remember that I'm on this thing...
November 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
I really need to remember that I'm on this thing...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've signed a contract with the University Press of Florida for a monograph on the anti-apartheid movement in Florida! What started as an academic research diversion has morphed into a full-blown book project! Watch this space for more as the project progresses!
February 26, 2024 at 6:27 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that I've signed a contract with the University Press of Florida for a monograph on the anti-apartheid movement in Florida! What started as an academic research diversion has morphed into a full-blown book project! Watch this space for more as the project progresses!
Had the supreme pleasure of interviewing with Florida Frontiers about my work on anti-apartheid movements in Florida. A wonderful radio program from
@FLAHistorical, and the subject matter is pretty interesting (though I am a touch biased). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
@FLAHistorical, and the subject matter is pretty interesting (though I am a touch biased). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Florida Frontiers Radio Podcast: Florida Frontiers Radio Program #536 on Apple Podcasts
Show Florida Frontiers Radio Podcast, Ep Florida Frontiers Radio Program #536 - Feb 22, 2024
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February 24, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Had the supreme pleasure of interviewing with Florida Frontiers about my work on anti-apartheid movements in Florida. A wonderful radio program from
@FLAHistorical, and the subject matter is pretty interesting (though I am a touch biased). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
@FLAHistorical, and the subject matter is pretty interesting (though I am a touch biased). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Thrilled to have been able to contribute to this wonderful volume and a great physical manifestation of the fantastic work being done in Safundi. A perfect fit for any university library--> www.routledge.com/Struggle-for...
Struggle for a Free South Africa: Campus Anti-Apartheid Movements in Africa and the United States, 1960–1994
This book explores anti-apartheid movements on university and college campuses across Africa and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.
In the wake of the March 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South A...
www.routledge.com
February 16, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Thrilled to have been able to contribute to this wonderful volume and a great physical manifestation of the fantastic work being done in Safundi. A perfect fit for any university library--> www.routledge.com/Struggle-for...
Perhaps one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. "Icon in Motion" is a fitting title for this exhibit.
Josephine Baker, Still Moving
She entertained Europe between the wars and still inspires artists and activists now, as a new exhibition in Berlin shows.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Perhaps one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. "Icon in Motion" is a fitting title for this exhibit.
Reposted by Jacob Ivey
Caroline Hunter on organizing the Polaroid Revolutionary Worker's Movement against their company's apartheid tech infrastructure
The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement
In 1970, Black employees at Polaroid discovered their employer’s equipment was being sold to the South African government to create ID cards and passbooks under the apartheid system and organized as...
www.bgc.bard.edu
February 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Caroline Hunter on organizing the Polaroid Revolutionary Worker's Movement against their company's apartheid tech infrastructure
Plenaries AND extended deadlines?!? It's the conference that keeps on giving!
We’re excited to announce our #batw2024 plenary speakers: Professor Anthony Bale (Birkbeck) and Professor Lucy Noakes (Essex & Royal Historical Society).
We look forward to welcoming them & you to our Winchester conference. Don't forget to submit your abstracts if you haven't already!
We look forward to welcoming them & you to our Winchester conference. Don't forget to submit your abstracts if you haven't already!
January 26, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Plenaries AND extended deadlines?!? It's the conference that keeps on giving!
I really cannot overstate the deflating power of coming into a classroom that should have 60 students ready to discuss the topic for the day and finding only a dozen who don't even know what the readings were...
January 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
I really cannot overstate the deflating power of coming into a classroom that should have 60 students ready to discuss the topic for the day and finding only a dozen who don't even know what the readings were...
The Great BlueSky transition continues, complete with #BATW2024!
We're here!
Submit your abstract for batw2024, check out past conferences, or read more about our publications.
The 2024 Conference is in Winchester, UK. Click for more details: britainandtheworld.org/2024-confere...
#batw2024
Submit your abstract for batw2024, check out past conferences, or read more about our publications.
The 2024 Conference is in Winchester, UK. Click for more details: britainandtheworld.org/2024-confere...
#batw2024
January 18, 2024 at 7:56 PM
The Great BlueSky transition continues, complete with #BATW2024!
Had the chance to review a fascinating book on African Intersex for the Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Give it a read, but more critically, take a look at Swarr's book if you are interested in the subject! academic.oup.com/jhmas/articl...
Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine, Am...
Spanning nearly four centuries of misinformation, scientific racism, and colonial legacies, Amanda Swarr’s monograph confronts the complexities of race and gend
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November 26, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Had the chance to review a fascinating book on African Intersex for the Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Give it a read, but more critically, take a look at Swarr's book if you are interested in the subject! academic.oup.com/jhmas/articl...
So got to moderate an engaging and enjoyable panel at the Miami Book Fair today that just happened to also be on C-SPAN. Always fun to masquerade as a public intellectual every once in a while... www.c-span.org/video/?53174...
November 19, 2023 at 11:49 PM
So got to moderate an engaging and enjoyable panel at the Miami Book Fair today that just happened to also be on C-SPAN. Always fun to masquerade as a public intellectual every once in a while... www.c-span.org/video/?53174...