Alyssa Ribeiro

@riverlys.bsky.social

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Historian of race and US cities, Associate Professor at Allegheny College, book in progress on multiracial activism in Philadelphia

View looking up at colorful mural on the in side of a building. Mural contains text saying “Warren PA,” a United refining smokestack, a steamboat, the Gateway Arch (made in Warren), Chief Cornplanter, General Warren, a deer, trout, etc.
Paper dish containing cut corn kernels without the cob that have never been grilled and no cilantro that cost $5
Full page ad with main text “Are Your Econmics Professors Force Feeding You Keynesian Swill? Fight Back!” by Young America’s Foundation
Photo of pillow printed with smiling SEPTA subway car
Graphic: Remembering the Sin Colonias March of 1976 / A Two-Part Panel Discussion, Part I - Voices from la Lucha 1976
People stand along street at major intersection with flags and protest signs
Image of cover of Kimberly Johnson’s book Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis
Graphic of the life cycle of higher education. It looks like a figure 8 on its side and marks 2025 as a turning point for higher education coming out of a “conservation” phase marked by “stability, certainty, and reduced flexibility”
A print of a hand drawn illustration of part of downtown Minneapolis with Hennepin Avenue in the foreground and Europe in the distance. Skybridges and the IDS Center are prominent. Signed Strieberg 1979.
Brown brindle dog uses an old bound master’s thesis as a pillow while human attempts to read it.
Image of marchers approaching Trump tower in downtown Chicago
Photo of a book excerpt reading “Other long cherished and hard won commitments have been set aside by the administration—the commitment to end race and sex discrimination, the commitment to the right of working people to organize unions and to share in the nation’s growing wealth, the commitment to preserve the environment, and the commitment to manage taxes fall most heavily on those with the greatest ability to pay. Issues that once seemed eyeless once again turned into open debates. The attorney general challenged the ancient writ of habeus corpus…” page 7 of Citizen Action and the New American Populism (Temple, 1986)
Harris sticker with Biden badge underneath showing through