Check out my AAIHS interview with Kiana Knight: www.aaihs.org/dominican-cr.... @dukepress.bsky.social @xroadproj.bsky.social #AAIHS #Haiti #DominicanRepublic

Happy news! Dominican Crossroads @DukePress is a finalist for the ASALH Book Prize! @ASALH https://asalh.org/awards/the-asalh-book-prize/…. #AHA25 #DominicanRepublic #Haiti

Thanks to @niels_eichhorn and the War of the Rebellion podcast @HCivwar for interviewing me about Dominican Crossroads. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ71RkUJeMg&ab_channel=WaroftheRebellion. #DominicanRepublic #Haiti #USHistory

My book, Dominican Crossroads, is now available! https://dukeupress.edu/dominican-crossroads @DukePress @USCHistory @DukeHistoryDept.

I just added 'An Evangelical Occupation: The Racial and Imperial Politics of US Protestant Missions…' to @academia! https://www.academia.edu/82171220/An_Evangelical_Occupation_The_Racial_and_Imperial_Politics_of_US_Protestant_Missions_in_the_Dominican_Republic

A revised version of my article "Black Protestants in a Catholic Land" is now available in Spanish & includes new images! http://estudiossociales.bono.edu.do/index.php/es/article/view/973/946

"Maligning Haiti is part of the imperial logic. The battle of representation is part of a larger war about controlling material gains." #TheBlackRepublic @bronaldbyrd @BlkPerspectives @AAIHS

"The relationship between missionary work and U.S. imperialism is massive on the discursive level--the impulse to convert, save, uplift and civilize." #TheBlackRepublic @bronaldbyrd @BlkPerspectives @AAIHS

"The idea of Haiti as an illegitimate state is discursive violence. The real illegitimacy is white rule in Reconstruction US south." #TheBlackRepublic @BlkPerspectives @bronaldbyrd

"Thinking about Haiti sharpens the critique of how US is an imperial nation-state"#TheBlackRepublic @bronaldbyrd @AAIHS @BlkPerspectives

Live now! @AAIHS https://www.crowdcast.io/e/Lunchtime-Talk-w-Brandon-Bryd

If you haven't already, check out this roundtable on Brandon Byrd's The Black Republic! https://www.aaihs.org/tag/TheBlackRepublic/. @AAIHS @bronaldbyrd

Police reform in MA now!! Sign here:http://chng.it/G8pFnvvq. #MApolicereformnow #EnoughMA #Justice4MA #MAPOLI #MeetTheMoment

I just added 'Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a N…' to @academia! https://www.academia.edu/43619694/Redeeming_Santo_Domingo_North_Atlantic_Missionaries_and_the_Racial_Conversion_of_a_Nation

My article "Redeeming Santo Domingo" is now available @ASChurchHistory! https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/redeeming-santo-domingo-north-atlantic-missionaries-and-the-racial-conversion-of-a-nation/52519B9C7F0E8EAE20400A151DA0D657

Conclusion: students salute @lorgia_pena and invite faculty to support protest. #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

@lorgia_pena If fighting for my students costs me tenure then it’s fucking worth it! The work will speak for itself. #lorgiafest

@lorgia_pena: I have learned from the scholars & students here. Gracias. Discomfort with academia is healthy. #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

@lorgia_pena at the mic! Thanks Warren Center, colleagues and students. #lorgiafest

Kim: @lorgia_pena Harvard needs you more than you need it. #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña Loud applause!

Clutario: @lorgia_pena created a LatinX field. We created from nothing! We were hungry to make space for our communities. #lorgiafest

Closing remarks begin. Students represent as faculty Ju Yon Kim and Genevieve Clutario honor @lorgia_pena #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Kelley: redress is tricky. It can lead to silencing. The university can’t pay this off. We need transformative redress! #lorgiafest

West: Courage is not hegemonic among Harvard faculty. Conformity and complacency until it comes to your house #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Comments: Talking & sharing about this obliterates shame! #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña #EthnicStudies

Comments: Denial of tenure is an attempt to shame us into silence. We will resist! We will challenge you! #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Sonic confidence, sonic self respect blaring across the crowd @lorgia_pena. AfAm-DR, Afro-diaspora represent! #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

@CornelWest responding to Torres-Saillant. Sonic self-respect is often a starting point for people who have been marginalized #lorgiafest

Q/A: @marisollebron: What’s next? More material resources for programming, but what about redress to @lorgia_pena ?#lorgiafest

@CornelWest: @lorgia_pena is a fighter, a freedom warrior! No neoliberal institution can bring her down, can bring us down! #lorgiafest

@CornelWest there is a whole wave of people who have been denied. But @lorgia_pena you’re distinctive. You work is pioneering. #lorgiafest

@CornelWest Never give up! That’s the lesson to the students. You’ve been studying the context. Harvard is the subject matter #lorgiafest

West: The problem is you love oppressed people too much! @lorgia_pena you’re an exemplar of excellence! #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Cornel West: Let us not be deceived! Professor @lorgia_pena you are a brilliant scholar!! You love veritas too much! #lorgiafest

Kim: I’m fighting for us! We want Ethnic Studies at Harvard, but we need you @lorgia_pena !#lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña @keish_kim

@keish_kim What is at stake? Lives are at stake! Ethnic Studies is at stake, and the students in our classes are at stake! #lorgiafest

Powerful words by @keish_kim “We sit here at Harvard embodying contra-diction.” @lorgia_pena #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

@keish_kim remembers Freedom University. “I still carry with me the memory of the first freedom classroom.” #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

@keish_kim represents! Lorgia opens space for students 2 fill the gaps. The most critical part of her scholarship is her praxis #lorgiafest

Harvard grad student Keish Kim at the mic. Thanks to students across the nation for their solidarity! #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Kelley: It was precisely the disruption of business as usual that brought us ethnic studies in the 1st place! #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Kelley: What happened here is a crime, a violation the university’s own standards. We have to fight! #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Kelley: Lorgia’s case doesn’t stand scrutiny based on Harvard’s own standards. #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Kelley: Lorgia not only co-founded Freedom University, but she was the only untenured faculty to do so #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña

Kelley: @lorgia_pena “You’re one of the best historians I have encountered!”

Kelley: @lorgia_pena’s work makes transformation in black studies with radical interpretations. #lorgiafest

Robin DG Kelley now at the mic! Kelley: Thank @lorgia_pena for fighting back in the collective struggle. You made a sacrifice. #lorgiafest

Hernández: We have work ahead. This work needs to be done collectively & individually. It goes beyond this battle!!! @CUNYDSI #lorgiafest

Hernández: @lorgia_pena saved Harvard money. She was not compensated for her unpaid labor: starting programs, mentoring, etc. #lorgiafest

Hernández: We fight to end exploitation of people of color, women, and other marginalized groups in academia. #lorgiafest #TenureGarcíaPeña