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A native son of Brooklyn by way of Honduras' Caribbean Coast, Black Feminist Queer. Black Studies Profe. #HemisphericIndigenousBlackness #GarifunaNYC

Brooklyn, wherever I am

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I’ve been observing this troublesome slogan of “Latinxs for Black Lives” for a few days now. And I understand the importance of a politics of solidarity, but at the cost of continuing the erasure of Black Latinxs is deeply painful. We are more than a festival.

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I’m cackling with tears but I see no lies.

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Dear first-generation graduate students, a tenure-track job will not get you and your families out of intergenerational poverty. I'm over here still counting my frijolitos everyday cause it ain't it. Dios mis coñoooooo

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Dear Netflix, just in case ya’ll forgot how Selena Quintanilla Perez (1971-1995) looked like. This new one ain’t it. Do better. Tf.

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Them: what is your vision for the future of Latinx Studies? Me: the future of Latinx Studies is Black/Indigenous/Women/Queer folks dismantling its borders. Them: ::awkward stares:: 👀 Me: yup! 💅🏾

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One day I’ll write on how white Latinx and mestizx Latinx colleagues disregard my work and take my critique of anti-Blackness in Latinidad and Latinx Studies personal rather engage it intellectually. Our hypervisibility does not dismantle white supremacy ya’ll. Deep sigh!

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Gullah Geechee community finally credited with song “Kumbaya":

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Gullah Geechee community finally credited with song “Kumbaya"

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“Black and Indigenous cultures are increasingly celebrated as part of Latinidad, but not Black and Indigenous people. For example, not long before this film premiered, Latine Los Angeles city council members were caught on camera making racist and colorist

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With Namor, Wakanda Forever Does What Latine Media Will Not

Seeing Tenoch Huerta Mejía playing an Indigenous antihero in Wakanda Forever is powerful, and it’s also not surprising to me that it took U.S. Black entertainment, not Latine media, to tell dignified...

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Do you know what it means to see @Lupita_Nyongo speak español in all of her beautiful native fluency in a movie theater? Its more than just representation it adds to the infinite borderless of Blackness. The nation-state will never save us only us will save us. #BlackLatinidad

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Them: What is your field of study? Me: Black Studies Them: Yeah, but like what’s your discipline? Me: Black Studies Them: No, like are you a historian? Anthropologist? Me: ::blinks:: an interdisciplinary scholar of Black Studies 👀💀🙄

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The afterlife of mestizaje is alive and thriving. Not disappointed nor surprised by Rita Moreno’s comments, but rather how in 2021 white supremacist rhetoric of todos somos iguales still persist. Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigeneity is hell of a drug. 🤬🤦🏾‍♂️

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TONIGHT: Rita Moreno comments on the controversy surrounding her friend Lin Manuel Miranda and his film "In The Heights." #LSSC

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GRE scores are entirely useless. I was rejected from PhD programs back in 2012 because I had very, very low scores and today I’m sitting in a space where folks who wrote those letters are engaging my work. GRE score ain’t a marker of shit.

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What’s so fucked up is that Colombia has the second largest Black communities in the Americas after Brazil, why not decline the award and give it to countless Black Colombian musicians. Allyship isn’t possible in the afterlife of mestizaje.

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Please keep in mind that the first Black woman Vice President was not in the United States but in Costa Rica and that this historic win in Colombia is not about the Global North but rather about a Global South that always already been breaking this ground for this to happen.

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My heart just bursted!!! The diaspora strikes back!!! “Yo soy Boricua, pa que tu sepa.” #Nuyoricans

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Academia has the most unexpected and strangest way of reminding me that I’m a first-generation, working-class kid from an immigrant household. Ya’ll ain’t it. Yuck! So gross. I’m tired.

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“The ghost in Beloved, is not only because the people believed in ghosts. It’s not only because Sethe needs the ghost. It’s also structurally a way to say that memory can come in and sit down next to you at the table..."

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When ya’ll invite me to your Latinx Heritage Month thingys, please know that you gonna get a Black Studies worldview. You about to sit through Black histories from 1492 to now. Not no Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan loving diversity of Hispanics. 🙄🤬🤦🏾‍♂️

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Doctoral training in Black Studies does not need the groundings of a Western discipline in order to be legible or validated. Black Studies has its own theoretical/methodological/pedagogical groundings.

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“Queer not in the sense of a “gay” or same-sex loving identity waiting to be excavated from the ocean floor but as a praxis of resistance. Queer in the sense of marking disruption to the violence of normative order and powerfully so: connect- ing in ways that commodified flesh…”

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Latinidad has and will always be a fraught and failed category for Spanish-speaking Black folks. Brian Flores a Garifuna Honduran from Brownsville Brooklyn, NY should be getting hemispheric coverage as he takes down NFL’s institutionalized racism. #GarifunaTwitter

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“Latinx tambien somos negros” [Latinx We are also Black] does what for Black Latinxs (Latinxs of African descent)? Not All Latinxs are Black & that’s perfectly fine. I’m not here to let the anti-Blackness of Latinidad off the hook. This is some 2020 ¿y tú abuela dónde está?

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I love my job especially my students. The way I just ugly cried 🥰😘💜🙏🏾 #BlackStudies

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Thats cause of intergenerational wealth it aint the profession 🤬

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The study of Black Latinx life is not the study of Black and Brown solidarity. There have and are living and breathing Black folks in the United States with Latin American and Caribbean routes who are Black in Ambas (Both) Américas. But please hire non-Black Latinx carry on.tired

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“La Ola Latina” WTF?!? It’s 2019 how we still a wave and what kind of whitening fuckery is this cover. Yalitza Aparicio is most definitely lightened up here and ya’ll couldn’t find not one Black Latina. Do better @peopleenespanol #BlackLatinxExist

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“Let me begin by saying that I came to theory because I was hurting…” (hooks, 1991)

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“Thanks to a generous donation by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Wayne State University is proud to announce a multi-year cluster hire of 50 tenured or tenure-track faculty over a three-year period, the establishment of the Detroit Center for Black Study

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Writing retreat workshop back in August 2019, still true today.

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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation”.—Audre Lorde

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but Black Latinxs do not have to exist b/c of an African American parent. Black people from Latin America live here too and have for centuries. Yes, you can be Black Latinx and both parents could be Black from another country in the Americas.

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Dear Black Studies colleagues, when you build a PhD program in Black Studies through the interdisciplinary training of being housed in English, Anthropology, Political Science, History, etc., what is being messaged to institutions, peers, and students is that Black Studies as a..

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I had my first-ever Univision interview about #BHM and tell me why my brain didn’t register it was gonna be in full blown español so I was trying to tap into my best Honduran Spanish and ended up sounding like a whole honorary NuyoRican 👀💀😂 #Bushwick

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“Decolonizing AfroLatinidad: Black Central Americans in the United States” soon come.

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Yesterday was a huge day for me. I submitted the full draft of my dissertation to my beautiful committee and all I can think of was to get a hug from my dad. I miss his smile, hugs, and how much his love for me just overflowed especially with academic accomplishments. I miss you!

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Happy August 1st mi gente! I’m happy to share that I’ll be joining the fabulous folks in Africana Studies @BrynMawrCollege as their first tenure-track line and incoming Director. Looking forward to collectively building Black Studies in the Tri-Co. Philly, what it do? #BlackStudy

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Beyond the moon thrilled to be joining the Department of Africana Studies @smithcollege this Fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. In such brilliant company of Daphne Lamothe, Ginetta Candelario, Sam Ng, Jennifer DeClue, Elizabeth Pryor, and so many more dope scholars!

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Beloveds! It took me THREE application cycles to get into a PhD program and will never forget that Howard University’s Department of History was my first YES in 2011. Keep on applying no matter how many no’s cause its gonna be a yes at some point. Keep on applying to everythang!!

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I was 23 years old when I realized that the rest of the United States did not celebrate Christmas on the 24th but was very much on the 25th. When I tell ya’ll Brooklyn is the nexus of Ambas Américas cause my whole block was lit on the 24th. ¡Feliz Navidad!

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For some reason I keep having to learn this life lesson over and over: I keep hoping that Latinx Studies would be something that it is not. I’ve said this before and will say it again I’m giving up on Latinx Studies if it continues to marginalize Black and Indigenous study.

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Still pinching myself that I get to be back home and in the stomping grounds of Audre Lorde, Pauli Murray, Charles Green, Juan Flores, John Henrik Clarke. Bittersweet as my love for my students and colleagues @AfricanaSmith runs deep. ¡Pa’lante, siempre pa’lante!

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I just finished my first week of teaching as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Africana Studies. I’m exhausted and need a tall glass with Hennessy pero like it’s a good kind of exhaustion and I already love my students!

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Plantains are my happy place.

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Afromexicanos serán reconocidos como pueblos indígenas

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Afromexicanos serán reconocidos como pueblos indígenas

Esta comunidad será considerada por primera vez con el Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas, aprobado por el Senado.

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From the late Johnny Ventura’s IG page what a stunning image. We are only here for such a brief moment. QEPD! 💜

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Just a thought: Salvador Rolando Ramos being Latinx does not make the horror of May 24th in Uvalde less of a white supremacist terrorist act. Just like George Zimmerman’s peruvian immigrant mother does not make him less white. Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX are not mutually exclusive

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Black Studies journals in the U.S. were one of the first print spaces that published on Black Latin America when it wasn’t como se dice en vogue. Black Studies has always already been local, global, hemispheric, transnational, diasporic all at the same time.

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And, just like that in a split second as I plan to head down to Honduras in a few, your voice, fragrance, laughter, tajadas won’t be there to welcome me. I pray that you are still dancing and laughing on the other side. Extrañandote Abuela Norma. Proteja y guía mis pasos 💜

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I’ll never understand this deep love ya’ll have for Bad Bunny. I’ll just say that Tego Calderon never got this much love and ever single allbim he dropped was a whole vibe pero como se dice....

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OOOOKKKAAAYYY I see you Bryn Mawr College coming thru with the new faculty headshots cause I hadn’t gotten new ones since my UVA Carter G. Woodson Institute days. Which one is giving baddie energy tho?!? 💅🏾😜👀😍

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SCREAMING!!! I’ve been officially asked to be a Mellon Mays faculty advisor to three brilliant Black women whose projects are already breaking ground. The future of #BlackStudies is soooo briiiight 💜💜💜

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So my ignant ass had no idea Hartford had one of the largest Boricua neighborhoods in CT. I’m in arroz con gandules, pernil, alcapurrias, and tostones heaven.

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The Department of English at Rutgers University, which has a long history of scholarship and teaching in African American Literature and Literature of the African Diaspora, announces two Postdoctoral Associate Fellowships for scholars pursuing research in these fields.

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Yesterday’s win in Honduras the first woman president is epic yet in a country where Black Indigenous women are at the forefront of hemispheric political movements its always telling who gets to be first despite centuries of labor.

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Merlin Santana in “Moesha” pilot episode, Black Latinx New Yorker of Dominican descent. One day, I’ll write about BlackLatinxs in Black Hollywood, you heard me: Gina Torres, Tatyana Ali, Melissa De Sousa, etc.

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Pedagogue question: I loathe midterms/finals they feel so completely useless to me in the learning process of this current generation of students, what other forms of assessments have ya’ll used to gauge student learning in a reading and writing demanding space?

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The Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama is looking for a dynamic scholar to fill the position of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall of 2020 with expertise in the study of contemporary issues of race, gender, and sexuality.

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Carne frita, arroz con habichuelas y tostones.

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“Indigenous Blackness in the Américas: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York” has found a home. Looking forward to this new chapter of a research project that’s been with me for many, many years 💜

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field of study, an intellectual and political enterprise is simply not enough. Black Studies has its own transdisciplinary methods, epistemologies, theoreitcal frameworks that do not need to aligned to any Western discipline. We are in fact more than enough, yet decades later…

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I don’t know who needs this reminder: But the conquistadores never left, they stayed and their descendants built the nations/flags you all love and wave at parades. #BlowUpLatinidad

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The way this made me spit out my morning cafecito had me cacklin real hard but the gag is 🤣😂😜

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Reminder: If you think that Latinx folks in the U.S. do not easily fit into the census categories, remember that mestizaje travels very well & that there have been centuries of census categories in Latin America, so that “confusion” is rooted in anti-Blackness & anti-Indigeneity.

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Just a real quick reminder not sure who needs to hear this pero like white supremacists also have Spanish last names. And that’s on periodt.

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I'm very much looking forward to workshopping some new thoughts with the amazing folks at Rutgers Africana Studies and Black Latinx Américas xLab folks, come thru if you can. Excited about sharpening this chapter. Here is registration link:

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Thank you for loving me abundantly queer, in a world where you knew being loved was gonna be extra hard for me. Missing you so much papi. Yo te extrañaré, tenlo por seguro.

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I don't know who needs to hear this pero like diversity, equity, and inclusion committees will not dismantle white supremacy and anti-Black racism. #ZoomFatigue

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Screaming YAAAASSSS Dr. @lesliemalex I cannot wait to learn from you again, cite it and teach it your most recent gem! Thank you for your scholarship and all that you do for us and our futures!! #BlackStudy

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If your version of Latinx History can only center the legacies of Spanish colonialism in what we call today the United States and continue to marginalize Central Americans who have been here since the early 1990s then who is Latinx history for.

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White Hispanics are a special kind of evil that is beyond repair. I’m really disappointed but never surprised white Hispanics show their nasty generational anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity in the most unexpected ways. I gotta listen to my Third Eye much more.

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I love my tribe! Most Central Americans not raised in New York City won’t understand how much arroz con gandules gives me a lot of comfort in my first holiday season without mami. It was Puerto Rican and African American women that gave my mami a home away from home. 💜🕊️

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but African Americans are not separate from the African diaspora. African Americans are the African diaspora like all Black folks around the globe. These Kamala Harris convos are fascinatingly nation-state centered.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this or just needs this quick reminder but please keep on applying to all the things. It took me THREE application cycles to finally get admitted into a PhD program. Keep at it beloveds! Pa’lante, siempre pa’lante!

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I know the Fall semester just wrapped up pero like I’m so hype to be putting together my usual playlist along with a visual culture archive for my Black Latin Americas seminar. Please send me all the clips & tunes on hemispheric Blackness. We starting with “Silencing the Past”.

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Emerson College is pleased to announce a major faculty hiring initiative in Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. We seek to develop a distinguished interdisciplinary cohort of faculty whose research and teaching are at the intersections of...

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Spending this sunny ass Philly Sunday with my favorite thinker in Asian American Studies: Dr. Claire Jean Kim every single page is a gem! Run pick it up and add it onto your course syllabus!

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Unpopular opinion: Bad Bunny isn’t do the work that you think he’s doing. And, men like Bad Bunny will always que the platform and limelight y que de Tego Calderón o Don Omar o Ismael Rivera. Before ya’ll @ me his curl pattern ain’t the work 🙄🤡🤦🏾‍♂️👀

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Yes, I’m a Central Americanist. Yes, I’m a Latin Americanist but more importantly my intellectual grounding is in Black Studies and is my framing in any work on Central America and the Americas. My Central America is Black and Indigenous at the same time and its in #AmbasAm éricas

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I haven’t met to many folks who have written a dissertation while having loss a parent. I still can’t remember how I made it through thick fogs of grief. My dissertation advisor held me down in ways that I’m forever grateful. Next month marks a year since papi se fue.

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Birmingham native Imani Perry among winners of $800,000 ‘genius grants’

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MacArthur Fellows receive a no-strings-attached fellowship to further their work as they see fit.

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“Since colonization has produced fragmentation and dismemberment at both the material and psychic levels, the work of decolonization has to make room for the deep yearning for wholeness.” M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing, 2005.

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Garifuna, Creole/Kriol, and Indigenous folks on Central America’s Caribbean Coasts have been telling you this for decades 🤦🏾‍♂️ especially as they have shown the environmental impact of the United Fruit Company.

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We fail to recognize that most migrants form Central America are also Climate refugees-- displaced by climate change that destroys agriculture, and creating food insecurity. @juangon68 - #Unforgotten

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Afrolatinidad is not singular, it is not universal. It disrupts normativity. It is multiple. Multipilcity. We are more than a merengue.

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3 years

Nina Simone stayed droppin gem bombs!

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4 years

One day, I’ll write about how Brooklyn, NY is one of the multiple “cradles of Blackness” in the Américas. At the crossroads of African-American, Caribbean, European, Continental, Asian, and Latin American Blackness. #HemisphericBlackness #GlobalBlackness #BorderlessBlackness

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2 years

Historian Robin D. G. Kelley named 2021 Freedom Scholar

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Historian Robin D. G. Kelley named 2021 Freedom Scholar

Kelley will receive $250,000 to advance his work in service of justice, freedom and social change.

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3 years

“If you are going to have ethnic studies, you have to be prepared to rethink the reproduction of knowledge, and who does it, and how they do it. If not, don’t bother.” Robin D. G. Kelley

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5 years

In a room full of Latinx peoples from multiple national backgrounds, various shades of color, and mostly from NYC, still can’t take about race and Latinidad without regurgitating Latin American exceptionalism of “but we are all so mixed up that we are the same.” I’m tired!

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15 days

We still have to fight for a seat at the table where our decolonial project is an entire critique of the West and Western civilization. I get its generational but mighty God when can we just do the work of Black Studies and not fold into Western disciplines.

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2 years

Very much looking forward to being in the BRILLIANT company of @Jomairabsp and @DrJonathanRosa thank you @SkidmoreCollege for bringing us together!

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4 years

“Black Studies require a complete reorganization of the intellectual life and the historical outlook of the United States, and world civilization as a whole...the fundamentals of Western civilization, which cannot be understood unless Black Studies is involved.” C.L.R James 1970

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7 months

Yesterday at Columbia I witnessed the brilliance of four Black women scholars: Josefina Baez, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Lorgia Garcia Peña, and THE Hortense Spillers! What a gorgeous day on that stunning campus!

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9 months

My third oldest nephew (David) has been helping me set-up my campus office from Northampton to Manhattan and now in Bryn Mawr. And, he did this one entirely on his own. I’m a proud Unc! 😍🔥💅🏾

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1 year

And at the end of a gorgeous Saturday Spring Brooklyn afternoon my beautifully fierce, intelligent, hardworking mami in a blink of an eye departed this earthly realm. I have no words, pictures, nothing to say how devastatingly heartbroken I am/We are.

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1 year

Beloveds, please send light and prayers to my beautiful mami Azucena Oro Alvarez.

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3 years

I just witnessed my abuelita Norma Dolores Aguilar Palma cruzar al otro lado del rio. I’m beyond heartbroken. No matter what one is never ready for loss. All I can muster to say is cuidame a mi papi. 💜

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3 years

Meet the Woman Writing the First Garifuna Cookbook - Gastro Obscura

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Meet the Woman Writing the First Garifuna Cookbook

Isha Gutierrez-Sumner seeks to preserve, protect, and popularize her people's cuisine.

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2 years

The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) invites artists, media makers, and journalists whose work focuses on race, indigeneity, and/or transnational migration to apply to be a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow

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4 years

This Brooklyn kid will be going apple picking for the very first time at 35 today in the middoe of nowhere Massachusetts. Thank you to my 🔥❤️ Department Chair for organizing such a wonderful social-distant gathering. I’m lowkey hype. Can one get drunk with Apple Cider?!? 🤪

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3 years

“Until you do right by me, everything you think about (everything you touch) will crumble.” Celie, The Color Purple, 1982.

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