B. Ricardo Brown, PhD

@NODE801
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Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Pratt Institute

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#Sociology & #HistSTM #CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool #EnvironmentalStudies #CharlesDarwin #KarlMarx #Epicurus #Materialism #soundscapes #soundstudies #music #chess #RightToRepair #DIY #NYC #WaHI #SouthCarolina
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Until Darwin bloghttps://until-darwin.blogspot.com/
Ruins bloghttps://node801.blogspot.com/
Workhttps://pratt.academia.edu/BRicardoBrown
Twitter @UntilDarwinhttps://twitter.com/UntilDarwin
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 25, 2023
Moving to a new server, so, soon to be found at @NODE801 but will keep this one going for at least a while.
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 9, 2023
The greatest bird artist you’ve never heard of
"Brasher sought a more naturalistic treatment, without Audubon’s operatic drama. Although he hunted and collected birds as a young man, he gave up that approach later, preferring close observation to specimen hunting. His paintings have a lightness and transparency wholly different from Audubon’s heightened atmosphere."
#EnvHist #HistSTM #NatHist #Birds #Audubon
WPost Gift link: https://wapo.st/3VM2SlO
The greatest bird artist you’ve never heard of

Rex Brasher painted more birds than Audubon, and he never owned slaves.

The Washington Post
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 9, 2023
"For decades, famed professor Tim White used a vast collection of human remains... to teach his anthropology students at the University of California, Berkeley.
White, a world-renowned expert on human evolution, said the collection was passed down through generations of #anthropology professors before he started teaching with it in the late 1970s. It came with no records, he said. Most were not labeled at all or said only “lab.”
#HistSTM #HistSci
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uc-berkeley-native-american-remains-rcna72748
A UC Berkeley professor taught with human remains, angering Native American tribes

Famed UC Berkeley professor Tim White taught with a vast collection of human remains. University officials now suspect many of them were Native American.

NBC News
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 9, 2023
"The segregation based mainly and specifically on race and color which the United States Government carries on is despicable, illogical and uncivilized … To perpetuate it in the case of the Gold Star mothers who are visiting great cemeteries where the putrid remains of their dead sons were buried very largely by Negro soldiers, is the last word in this national disgrace.”
#Sociology #WWI #DuBois #BlackHistory
https://lithub.com/on-w-e-b-du-bois-and-the-disgraceful-treatment-of-gold-star-mothers/
On W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disgraceful Treatment of Gold Star Mothers

Along with the question of war guilt, another controversy in the spring and summer of 1930 offered W.E.B. Du Bois a reminder of the First World War’s bitter legacy. In early 1929, after years of pr…

Literary Hub
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDApr 11, 2023
Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)
Observer: arman_
#FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153723661
via Fort Tryon Park: Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fort-tryon-park-biodiversity-and-ecology
Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)

Bold Jumping Spider from Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY, US on April 06, 2023 at 03:44 PM by Arman

iNaturalist
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDApr 11, 2023
Piebald white-tailed deer
NatureNotes
By Rudy Mancke
from South Carolina Public Radio
#NatHist #SouthCarolina #NaturalHistory
https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/show/naturenotes/2023-03-31/piebald-white-tailed-deer
Piebald white-tailed deer

Often confused with an albino, a piebald deer is slightly more common and is also a genetic mutation. Piebald deer can have varying amounts of white hair.

S CAROLINA
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMar 30, 2023
Charles Darwin on the atrocity of slavery and the origin of inequality
#Slavery #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin
https://economicsociology.org/2023/03/25/charles-darwin-on-the-atrocity-of-slavery-and-the-origin-of-inequality/
Charles Darwin on the atrocity of slavery and the origin of inequality

Economic Sociology & Political Economy
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMar 29, 2023
‘Such fine families’: photography and race in the work of Caroline Bond Day
"examines a collection of family photographs published in an unusual 1932 anthropological study of ‘Negro‐White families... Caroline Bond Day, a woman of mixed ancestry herself, gathered family histories and photographs of over 300 ‘Negro‐White families’ for her graduate work at Harvard University under eugenicist Ernest Hooton...
#HistSTM #HistSci #Sociology #Eugenics
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725860600944971
‘Such fine families’: photography and race in the work of Caroline Bond Day

This article examines a collection of family photographs published in an unusual 1932 anthropological study of ‘Negro‐White families’. In the 1920s Caroline Bond Day, a woman of mixed ancestry hers...

Taylor & Francis
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMar 29, 2023
I found this in a box of books someone was tossing. Most were or romance novels, but this in very good condition "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights being An Intensely Brilliant Account of the World War ... and the Important Part Taken by the Negro including The Horrors and Wonders of Modern Warfare. The New and Strange Devices, etc.
Fighting for the Rights of Mankind and for the Future Peace and Security of the World" #WWI #GreatWar
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMar 29, 2023
Special Issue: Foucault Before the Collège de France, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 40 Issue 1-2, January-March 2023
#MichelFoucault #CriticalTheory #sociology
https://michel-foucault.com/2023/03/28/special-issue-foucault-before-the-college-de-france-2023/
or
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/40/1-2
Special Issue: Foucault Before the Collège de France (2023)

Foucault News