Jess Eastland-Underwood
@jessunderwood.bsky.social
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Everyday politics, economic ideas and racism scholar. PhDone @ University of Warwick. GTA @ King’s College London. Political economist. PSA race, migration and intersectionality SG co-convenor.
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Hello new followers!

I research the relationship between everyday political thought, economic ideas and racism. Briefly, I am interested in why economic language is specifically useful for those aligned with white identity politics.

What does that mean? A quick 🧵
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We are Hiring! We have a 3-year teaching fellow position in IPE. Come and work with an amazing group of IPE scholars and fabulous students in the Department of Politics and International Studies.

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deadline is approaching - July 31st.

Please spread the word
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You may be broken, but you are still a delicious treat! 🙃
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📢 Workshop: Call for Papers 📢
Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality
Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025.

Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
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They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.

Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
From the NYT:

Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home
As the Trump administration shrinks federal child care programs, Republicans are backing policies they hope will allow more parents to scale back at work.
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There is so little language to accurately reprimand such cruel and hateful practices.
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Deadline to submit your abstract is TOMORROW! Don't miss your opportunity to contribute to this symposium with a view to publish in @psrjournal.bsky.social! Find the full call for papers and abstract submission link here: bit.ly/42tgmYC

Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!
psa-race.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
Advert for PSA RMI Political Studies Review Sumposium entitled interdisciplinary perspectives on Blackness and Black politics. Event will be held Friday 25th July 2025 at the PSA Office in Camden, London. Deadline for abstracts Friday 25 April 2025. Link to form same as post. Selected contributions from this symposium will be published in an issue of Political Studies Review after subjection to a peer review process.
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Still figuring out your schedule? See our six panels below! Our first is this afternoon at 1:30 at Lib of Birmingham room 102!
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Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!
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I’m in BHam for #PSA2025! If you’re around, it would be lovely to see you!
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The deputization of whiteness as discussed by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social … they’re signaling that it’s ok to break the law and in fact you won’t be punished but actually rewarded.
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the DOJ calling for REPARATIONS for INSURRECTIONISTS
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Look, I strongly disagree with where Cass lands, but here again we see 'the economy' is not simply an agglomeration of macroeconomic indicators but a vision of good/well-managed society. So you can spit data at him, but it won't change his *belief* that white patriarchy is the best form of society.
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But I could see Cass was channelling this same suspicion. Why was asking if Americans are willing to pay higher prices to support tariffs, he says the question should be: Would you rebalance the economy [away from] cheap consumer goods and [towards] other factors... important to people?”
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I had some thoughts about this:
Firstly, most economists are driven by data (this is good). But even I chide economists for this, because they are so fixated on the *available* data they don't really consider gaps in the data, analytical leaps in the method or alternative explanations.
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Listened to this interview with Oren Cass @vox.com where he's described as 'somewhat unusual for an economist'. Yes, in that he is not really an economist.
Maybe a petty insight, but when asked what data supports his argument, he was like 'that's the wrong question.' www.vox.com/politics/407...
Would you pay more for an American-made TV? This influential thinker thinks you will.
A conversation with Oren Cass, the right’s point person on tariffs.
www.vox.com
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It would be easy to miss the plant on the window frame. Phenomenal. 👏
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“A truly open concept of ‘the people’ could be precisely what is needed to account for the injustices produced by the intersections of race, class, gender etc., which are often marginalised.” Well said.
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Really excited to be chairing three panels next week in my first PSA conference as a co-convenor for the RMI specialist group. Come and visit me if you have a minute!
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Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!
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Trump is not an aberration is American democracy. He is the embodiment of a tradition older than the nation itself - cruelty and violence towards minoritised groups with a promise of economic gains for the country’s racial majority.
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I was trying to explain to my British husband that Trump voters may not even know this is happening. Fox News are running the stock market as the 11th story on its website. I couldn’t even find it on OANN.
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Fox News sure knows how to manipulate their followers.

FOX removed their stock ticker, can't let the ignorant fools see the damage being done by Trump's tariffs.

Fox knows that they create an alternative reality for their viewers, and they refuse to let actual reality ruin that.

#tariffs
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CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions!

Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online

Limited ECR travel bursaries available

Please share widely!

Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info
Call for proposals: Racialised space and politics of emotions
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Sometimes the 'reality' of a caricature is not what is illustrated, but rather the moral standing (and lack thereof) of the illustrator themselves and their target audience.
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Don't forget 'Yellow Peril' portraying Chinese men as savage rapists.
The Yellow Terror in all His Glory, an 1899 editorial cartoon depicting a Chinese man standing over a fallen white woman.