My article shows how we can use postcolonial lenses to navigate something we as yet don't know how to acknowledge or talk about well: premodern, non-European people doing things that look a lot like what we now call blackface. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...

Many of the writers in this (star-studded) lineup are Iberianists, including @madmcmahon.bsky.social @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social @cloecavero.bsky.social & @mia1va.bsky.social (+ allies @profliztingle.bsky.social & @emilymichelson.bsky.social) emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/n...

One of my favorite contemporary authors who is known for her creative reinterpretations of the colonial past in contemporary writing will be at Howard on March 26. Thank you to @mia1va.bsky.social for supporting/cordinating Yolanda's talk this month at #howarduniversity.

Study: Humans Evolved Opposable Thumbs To Signal ‘All Good’ To Buddies After Falling Off Roof https://theonion.com/study-humans-evolved-opposable-thumbs-to-signal-all-good-to-buddies-after-falling-off-roof/

Tomorrow! @diegojavierluis.bsky.social @mia1va.bsky.social

🚨🚨 New from the Journal of Festive Studies 🚨🚨 We just published Volume 7: Joy as Resistance, guest-edited by @mia1va.bsky.social. Our electronic ToC links to the many contributions and reviews that engage with the emerging field of critical joy studies. 🔗 journals.h-net.org/jfs/issue/vi...

We know you would, that's the entire problem

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... it’s a horrible thing to get deported without cause or due process. But to be deported to a country that is not yours because you have a tattoo??? Are you waiting until they come for citizens to start doing something? Immigrants are humans with rights. #resist

My author's copy of new 'Handbook of #AmericanPoetry' with my essay on "Poetry as #FeministCritique" (focused on the 1970s/80s) in which I read #SharonOlds, #AudreLorde & #SusanHowe but also discuss other poets has arrived! It is very thick & pretty #Feminism #GenderStudies #AmericanStudies #Poetry

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

New open access book from @ucpress.bsky.social : Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires by Sidney Xu Lu www.ucpress.edu/books/collab...

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Tis physical

Don’t miss this exhibition I curated, now on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum!

Folks in Washington DC: there are signed copies of Humans: A Monstrous History at @politicsprose.bsky.social Conn Ave. and it’s members’ discount weekend this weekend! #books #history #politics #dmv

Say it with me now: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED. Government intervention is government intervention is government intervention. As the Palestine exception becomes the universal rule of state interference in this country: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED. nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...

My book, Bridging Sonic Borders, is coming soon! It explores the deep ties between Dominican literature, migration & music, shedding light on overlooked voices in Dominican & US Latinx traditions. Click on the link to pre-order a copy today: sharinamaillopozo.com/books/

1619 in Global Perspective: and why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally #slaveryarchive t.co/JCD87bVNxe

Celebrating authors I've worked with & books I've worked on from my 35 years in publishing every day of #BlackHistoryMonth Day #22 @mia1va.bsky.social recovers the history of festival performances by Black people in Mexico City that captured and sustained "defiant joy." @cambridgeup.bsky.social

I mean if we made Target bankrupt, other companies might start to get the idea. Just sayin’

"My deepest wish, as I see jokes about deportation come from the mouths of the descendants of African slaves, is that we remember white supremacy has never stopped at borders, bodies or race." - Clarissa Brooks calling Black women in. God, I love this. forgeorganizing.org/article/soli...

The British library had a grad student placement to help survey the history of Afro-Brazil in their print collection www.bl.uk/more/researc...

Librarians. Now Alabama will be jailing librarians for shelving books. www.alreporter.com/2024/07/10/b...

This little book remains as important as when it came out five years ago

My article on Sor Juana is now out and open access! Click here to uncover the truth: was she a sphinx or not?

sad news from brazil :( www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/nor...

It arrived scratched scratched but dying to devour it, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

Celebrating authors & books from my 35 years in publishing every day of #BlackHistoryMonth #2 - Daina Ramey Berry’s bk was a game-changer (1st to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives—& to coin the term soul value).

For those interested in urban Caribbean music beyond Bad Bunny. Here is a very talented young woman (17 at time of concert), Jay Noa feels a Dominican barrio. youtu.be/LwDRLLPuOA4?...

JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

If you’re in LA Feb 21-22 and want to early about the Caribbean in the 16th and 17th centuries

Countdown! Join us in 48 hours for the #Slaveryarchive Book Club with James H. Sweet's new exciting book. Register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Some of you or your students might be interested in this

AI has ruined academic research online

Latin American colonial scholars: cuáles eran las "preguntas generales" de la Real Audiencia de la Nueva España, esp. s. XVI? I'm assuming – though not Inqusition – if they were heretics or knew any heretics? B/c las "preguntas de ley" were biographical.

Looking forward to this in April

The party of “real masculinity” has moved the inauguration indoors cause it’s too cold.

Excited for @cristinaele.bsky.social's first curated exhibit, Unseeing the Tropics at the @suartmuseum.bsky.social! The show pairs historical objects with the work of Joiri Minaya to challenge ideas of "tropicality." Running from Jan 21 to May 10, there’ll be related events you won’t want to miss!

what's new in mexican intellectual history, colonial and 19th cent? (2010-present)

what's new in mexican economic history, colonial and 19th century?

what's new in mexican Agriculture and Domesticated Animals history, colonial and 19th cent?

There’s still time join our ICA panel series in Novi Sad, Serbia 28.01 - Vidas afrocoloniales latinoamericanas, ss. XVI-XIX ica2025.uns.ac.rs/ica2025-eng/

call for help there's a newish huge cultural studies/philosophical/ critical theory/encyclopedic dictionary i can't recall its title atm it's a short title

Looking forward to spanish.ucdavis.edu/events/event... gracias @danielagtzf.bsky.social

Catch up on other threads about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY by searching for the hashtag #HAMH! 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed