Miguel Valerio
@mia1va.bsky.social
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Author of Sovereign Joy:Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1540
#earlymodern
#skyhistorians
pinned post!
Iâm a scholar of the African diaspora in the Iberian Atlantic and my book studies the practice of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans in early colonial Mexico City as an expression of communal sovereignty and joy
about 1 year ago
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Taylor Lorenz
8 months ago
We know you would, that's the entire problem
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The Lincoln Project
8 months ago
It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
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Dr. Lorgia GarcĂa Peña
8 months ago
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
itâs 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
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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvadorâs most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/
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Judith Rauscher
8 months ago
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
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NPR
8 months ago
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability
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Nathan Ellstrand
8 months ago
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...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
8 months ago
Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.
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Weâre Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.
Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/tesla-cybertruck-protests-vandalism-elon-musk.html
8 months ago
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Tis physical
9 months ago
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Cristina E. Pardo Porto
9 months ago
Donât miss this exhibition I curated, now on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum!
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
9 months ago
Folks in Washington DC: there are signed copies of Humans: A Monstrous History at
@politicsprose.bsky.social
Conn Ave. and itâs membersâ discount weekend this weekend!
#books
#history
#politics
#dmv
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Rebecca Colesworthy
9 months ago
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...
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Gov. Hochul orders CUNY remove Hunter College âPalestinian Studiesâ job posting, calls for probe into âantisemitic theoriesâ
The job listing has since been removed from CUNYâs website.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/25/us-news/kathy-hochul-orders-cuny-remove-hunter-college-palestinian-studies-job-posting/
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Sharina MaĂllo-Pozo
9 months ago
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/
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Ana Lucia Araujo
9 months ago
1619 in Global Perspective: and why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally
#slaveryarchive
t.co/JCD87bVNxe
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Cecelia Cancellaro
9 months ago
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
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Dr. Lorgia GarcĂa Peña
9 months ago
I mean if we made Target bankrupt, other companies might start to get the idea. Just sayinâ
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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...
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https://www.bl.uk/more/research-collaboration/afro-brazilian-history-and-culture-in-print-project-profile.pdf/
9 months ago
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Juan José Ponce Våzquez
9 months ago
Librarians. Now Alabama will be jailing librarians for shelving books.
www.alreporter.com/2024/07/10/b...
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Bill to arrest librarians filed for 2025 session
A bill that could have led to the arrest of librarians narrowly missed becoming law last session, but sponsors have already filed a follow-up.
https://www.alreporter.com/2024/07/10/bill-to-arrest-librarians-filed-for-2025-session/
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This little book remains as important as when it came out five years ago
9 months ago
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VĂctor Sierra Matute
10 months ago
My article on Sor Juana is now out and open access! Click here to uncover the truth: was she a sphinx or not?
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-research-review/article/was-sor-juana-a-sphinx-monstrosity-and-the-poetics-of-dedication-in-her-transoceanic-enigmas/5DE219E58841DB10D64AAEC838EB7D0D?fbclid=IwY2xjawIW1W9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeQx8ohJ5dhjAuko7aGSw0b-4T4321zFoOAyuywlPPuyIpjvjofzHyPkfA_aem_0szU2Hziqqzwrh8usSskeQ
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sad news from brazil :(
www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/nor...
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Teto de igreja histĂłrica desaba em Salvador; uma pessoa morreu | CNN Brasil
Outras cinco pessoas ficaram feridas após desabamento do teto da Igreja São Francisco de Assis, no Pelourinho; construção tem centenas de anos
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/nordeste/ba/teto-de-igreja-historica-desaba-em-salvador-uma-pessoa-morreu/#goog_rewarded
10 months ago
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It arrived scratched scratched but dying to devour it,
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Cecelia Cancellaro
10 months ago
Celebrating authors & books from my 35 years in publishing every day of
#BlackHistoryMonth
#2 - Daina Ramey Berryâs bk was a game-changer (1st to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their livesâ& to coin the term soul value).
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Dr. Lorgia GarcĂa Peña
10 months ago
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?...
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J Noa: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
https://youtu.be/LwDRLLPuOA4?si=q-gIPQYQb7jimOwX
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Juan José Ponce Våzquez
10 months ago
www.alreporter.com/2025/01/23/a...
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Alabama prisoners dying at a rate four times the national average
Fewer people died inside the prisons than in 2023, when prisoners were five times as likely to die as the national average.
https://www.alreporter.com/2025/01/23/alabama-prisoners-dying-at-a-rate-four-times-the-national-average/
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Kyle Cheney
10 months ago
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.
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If youâre in LA Feb 21-22 and want to early about the Caribbean in the 16th and 17th centuries
10 months ago
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Ana Lucia Araujo
10 months ago
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...
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Juan José Ponce Våzquez
10 months ago
Some of you or your students might be interested in this
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AI has ruined academic research online
10 months ago
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Latin American colonial scholars: cuĂĄles eran las "preguntas generales" de la Real Audiencia de la Nueva España, esp. s. XVI? I'm assuming â though not Inqusition â if they were heretics or knew any heretics? B/c las "preguntas de ley" were biographical.
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Looking forward to this in April
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God
10 months ago
The party of âreal masculinityâ has moved the inauguration indoors cause itâs too cold.
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VĂctor Sierra Matute
10 months ago
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, thereâll be related events you wonât want to miss!
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what's new in mexican intellectual history, colonial and 19th cent? (2010-present)
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what's new in mexican economic history, colonial and 19th century?
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what's new in mexican Agriculture and Domesticated Animals history, colonial and 19th cent?
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Thereâs 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/
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ICA2025.eng â ICA2025
https://ica2025.uns.ac.rs/ica2025-eng/
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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
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Looking forward to
spanish.ucdavis.edu/events/event...
gracias
@danielagtzf.bsky.social
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Sovereign Joy Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens (1539-1640)
ï»żSovereign JoyAfro-Mexican Kings and Queens(1539-1640)Dr. Miguel ValerioUniversity of Maryland, College Park
https://spanish.ucdavis.edu/events/event-224-sovereign-joy-afro-mexican-kings-and-queens-1539-1640
10 months ago
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
10 months ago
Catch up on other threads about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY by searching for the hashtag
#HAMH
! đđ đ
#earlymodern
#histsci
#histmed
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Sacred ground.
#slaveryarchive
#nola
11 months ago
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Why are the biggest academic conferences during the worst weather months?
#MLA
,
#AHA
,
#RSA
11 months ago
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Ăngeles Picone
11 months ago
NYT on
#AHA25
resolution on
#scholasticide
in Gaza Free article
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/a...
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Historiansâ Group Votes to Condemn âScholasticideâ in Gaza (Gift Article)
After contentious debate, members of the American Historical Association voted to condemn what a resolution described as Israelâs destruction of Gazaâs educational system.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/arts/historians-gaza-israel-education.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE4.7heK.hxuMxUik6lV-&smid=bs-share
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Stephanie Porras
11 months ago
đšđš TU hiring a post/predoc fellowship for up to 2 years - do you want to help us launch a new interdisciplinary MA in Africana studies and art history? We plan to offer hands on mentorship and travel to conferences etc. Spread the word!
apply.interfolio.com/161071
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http://apply.interfolio.com/161071
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Phil Lewis
11 months ago
Happy Public Domain Day!
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Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse Enter the Public Domain
A wealth of art and literature, from the work of Robert Capa to Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, is now available for public access in the United States.
https://hyperallergic.com/978841/frida-kahlo-is-officially-in-the-public-domain-2025/
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Going to
#aha2025
?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/a...
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8 Art Shows to See Before They Close in January
Sublime paintings from Siena, the birth of Impressionism and more dazzling exhibitions in New York and Washington, D.C., to catch before theyâre gone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/design/museum-art-shows-exhibits-closing.html
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