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Justin Randolph

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U.S. historian | author of *Mississippi Law* | reader, eater, friend, southern https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-5060

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Apr 26

My book on policing and resistance under Jim Crow authoritarianism is available for pre-order from @uncpress.bsky.social! Code 01SOCIAL30 saves 30%!

Better yet, suggest its purchase at your local library.

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Mississippi Law | Justin Randolph | University of North Carolina Press

In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside ...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · 3d

obligatory unboxing photos of *Mississippi Law* author copies from @uncpress.bsky.social! and check out the GENEROUS blurbs from Jane Dailey, Françoise Hamlin, Walter Johnson, and Jason Ward. they put a smile on my face. uncpress.org/978146968948...

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · 8d

oh lord. Will their table be in the same place the segregationist authorities created a stockade for civil rights workers in 1963/65?

Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 8d

Federal Bureau of Prisons holding a recruiting event at the Mississippi State Fair feels very distinctly American.

Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · 19d

between the HPAD response and this in the Boston Review, Joan Scott’s recent writing is really helping me think through the moment. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 25d

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

The Ritual of Civic Apology

More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

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Alexandra Finley @alexfinley.bsky.social · 26d

LAWCHA Statement on the Unjust Firing of Professor Thomas Alter

Resolution on Academic Freedom and Firing of Tom Alter

Statement by the Labor and Working-Class History Association on Academic Freedom and the Unjust Firing of Professor Thomas Alter We, the Officers and Members of the Board of Directors of the Labor ...

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Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 27d

5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1

www.oah.org/2025/02/05/o...

OAH | OAH Issues Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”OAH | OAH Issues Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks to the @naucivilwar.bsky.social for the opportunity to serve on this year's book prize committee. If you authored a book on the Civil War in 2025, consider asking your publisher to submit it for this prestigious prize. Click the link for the details. 🗃️ naucenter.as.virginia.edu/nau-book-prize

Nau Book Prize

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Ooh. Maybe this one??

Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Aug 30

this post is hall of fame material

Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · Aug 30

One of the deputies who was doing security work - which included committing crimes - for the 21 yo crypto "Godfather" of Beverly Hills (who, incidentally, used some of his ill-gotten gains on leg-lengthening surgery) has lost his license to be a cop in California. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · May 2

Archie Bunker for President is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press site!!

Pre-ordering is the best way of support a book so please consider heading over to the @uncpress.bsky.social site and make sure to use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!!

Book cover of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics by Oscar Winberg.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hey friends, it would mean a lot to me if you took a minute to sign this petition to defend my friends and colleagues at my alma mater. Cuts to Oregon’s humanities are widespread and devastating, and I genuinely fear for the future of intellectual life at UO.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 50% off all @uncpress.bsky.social books 🚨

I interrupt my usually long silence between self-promotions to say that my book can be had for $18.35 with code 01NEWSITE50 at checkout. and FREE SHIPPING on orders >$75 uncpress.org/978146968948...

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Aug 22

hit this Linktree for purchase options: linktr.ee/MississippiLaw

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An American History of Jim Crow Policing

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Aug 22

*Mississippi Law* is two months away! Don’t believe me? Just look at these proofs! Table of contents too.

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Aug 20

don’t know about writing but remember a recent case from Tennessee? abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

Tennessee town approves deals to turn closed prison into immigration detention facility

Officials in a rural Tennessee town have voted to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite loud objections from upset re...

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stop cop cities everywhere @micahh.bsky.social · Aug 14

some rare good news: a Georgia judge has dismissed the Cop City domestic terrorism charges against Jamie Mariscano in DeKalb County, noting that the "Attorney General's Office appears to have delayed this matter in order to gain a tactical advantage over the defense."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · Aug 14

"Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the [fascist] agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.” ~Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · Aug 9

a great piece on Black family reunions and the amazing Jack Johnson family of Kemper County, Mississippi www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

‘A radical act’: the rich history behind the centuries-long tradition of Black family reunions

Festivities usually take place in the summer and often include traditional foods, matching T-shirts and the chance to learn about family ancestry

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · Aug 4

Instructions for today. And every day.

Watercolor. Flowers against a yellow rising moon or setting sun. Words by Mike Davis: It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to live each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 3

The attempt to ban, erase etc.. marginalized people's histories demands responses at the grassroots level. Regular people can be cultural stewards, can be archivists, can be storytellers, can be preservers of oral history. And these are all fun things to do!

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEW visual investigation:

ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside

There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces

We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records

Insiders told us this used to be rare

projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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