A. S. Dillingham
@asdillingham
Historian | Author of Oaxaca Resurgent https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29754 | @stanfordpress | Chahta | ON TWITTER BREAK
Grateful to my colleagues in the @clahistorians for selecting Oaxaca Resurgent as the winner of this year's María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History. The award is especially meaningful as it carries the name of a scholar whose work and kindness are a model for us all. #AHA23
Congrats to Alan Shane Dillingham for winning the María Elena Martínez Prize for Mexican History for his book Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico Stanford University Press
In anticipation of next week's #LASA2023 meeting in Vancouver, @stanfordpress is offering 30% off and free North American shipping on its LASA list, including Oaxaca Resurgent. Link & discount code below: sup.org/virtual-exhibi…
‘The experience of “Indian Removal” demonstrates that you cannot extinguish a people through their dispossession. Native people survived and rebuilt their lives and nations.’ @asdillingham on Indigenous and Palestinian dispossession: lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/febr…
‘As with Trump’s fantasies of turning Gaza into “the Riviera of the Middle East”, crass economic greed drove Native dispossession.’ @asdillingham on the similarities between Indigenous and Palestinian dispossession, from the blog: lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/febr…
‘The idea of a “population transfer”, another term for ethnic cleansing, has gone from a fringe position in Israel to the political mainstream.’ @asdillingham on the similarities between Indigenous and Palestinian dispossession, from the blog: lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/febr…
‘Jackson’s policies of “Indian Removal” in the 1830s should be a reminder that “population transfers” never solve social problems but only perpetuate existing inequalities.’ @asdillingham on Indigenous and Palestinian dispossession: lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/febr…
Some thoughts @LRB on histories of Indigenous and Palestinian dispossession, "Trails of Tears" lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/febr…
‘Talk of “empty land” and “handfuls of wandering Indians” was used to justify the expulsion of my people.’ @asdillingham - a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma - on the similarities between Indigenous and Palestinian dispossession. lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/febr…
🙌📕 ¡Ya está a la venta en librerías @El_Pendulo mi libro, 𝙀𝙣 𝙡𝙖 𝙫𝙤𝙧á𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙚 𝙡𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙖! 🗓️ Nos vemos ahí, en El Péndulo San Ángel, el 22 de mayo, 7pm, con Laura Santullo (guionista de La Zona) y @jaaguila1 (profesor del CIDE) pendulo.com/libro/en-la-vo…
Can't make it to #LAWCHA2023? We'll miss you, but we've got you covered. Join @kswinth, LaKisha Simmons, @eileen_boris, Kathryn Kish-Sklar, @xEmmaAmador, @jocelyn_olcott, and @knott_sarah for this free webinar. Register: rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
The May 2023 Issue of the Biskinik is now available to read and view online. In this issue, the Choctaw cultural revitalization movement is highlighted. Read this article and more at bit.ly/3p7yy8X.
Catch me on @NPRWeekend @NPR providing some historical context on Biden’s move to deploy 1500 soldiers to the US-Mexico border npr.org/2023/05/07/117…
A red hand over the mouth has become the symbol of the MMIW movement. A representation for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. Sadly, murder is the third leading cause of death for Native women. Together, let's speak up. Together, we're more. #MMIW
🚨Tomorrow🚨Join us for "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India." This talk by Andrew B. Liu will be on Zoom at 1 p.m. PST. #ASUHumanities RSVP: ow.ly/QJgw50NJKFs
The loss of Harry Belafonte is immeasurable. I am feeling it deeply today because every night for years I sung my kids to sleep with his “Cotton Fields.” I will be sining that song to my kids again tonight. Harry’s songs and activism helped us all be more human.
Excited for @lawcha_org's meet the editor's of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History event April 20 7PM EDT via Zoom. Hear their vision and share yours. What would you like to see in the journal? @Dr_JessieW @EbonRebel @Greeneland Register: cwm.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Thrilled that "Beyond Borlaug's Shadow" received Best Article Prize from LASA's Mexico Section.What can Octavio Paz, Mexican agronomists, and Indian farmers tell us about writing histories of development?More than we think @LASAMexico @Aghistorysoc @historia_mexico @AHAhistorians
News: my next book, Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology, has a release date (August), & can be pre-ordered from @oxunipress & the other usual suspects. The sculpture on its cover introduces its subject: 1/ global.oup.com/academic/produ…