I have a fair number of new followers, and so, inspired by Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes), I'd like to list and update the works of the #AfroLatinxFutures series, for which I have the honor of serving as series editor and Rebecca Colesworthy the acquisitions editor SUNY Press:

RIP, Jean. We learned so much you and are thankful for your gifts. Jean Fagan Yellin, Who Uncovered a Slavery Tale’s True Author, Dies at 92 - The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/07/28/boo…

"The Black Geographic," edited by Camilla Hawthorne & Jovan Lewis, explores the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. Read the free introduction on our website now. ow.ly/GtSH50Pp3jz

We are excited to share with the world, our Black Ecologies Zine. 64 pages of brilliance--poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, and original art by Alissa Diamond. This is a resource we hope you will consider using in classroom or community. Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/default/…

"The Haitian Revolution has been a powerful and consistent trope in US hip hop. Rappers in the United States have used hip hop to create historical counter-narratives..." writes Dr Alyssa #StopHaitianDeportations Sepinwall today at Black Perspectives to continue our #HipHop50 forum: aaihs.org/unsilencing-th….

Rescheduled due to labor action from Spring to October 18, 2023. Please register using the link. globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/literatu…

So what’s most impressive about this—in addition to the tons of beautiful NEW books—is that I hung the banner AFTER setting up the rest of the booth. Hall opens at 9am tomorrow! 💅🏻 #MLA2024 SUNY Press

There’s a cover 🥹

Last week, I attended a keynote about using AI writing in the classroom. The panelists were pro-AI and said we owe it to students to teach it. When asked about the environmental impacts, one panelist said, and this is a direct quote, "The impact on the environment is disastrous."

We are pleased to announce the #AAIHS2024 award winners–winners of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize, the C.L.R. James Research Fellowships, and the Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize! Read more: loom.ly/dc1yMFA

It is all real now! Thank you Lindsay Starr for this stunning cover. I’m so grateful to everyone ⁦UNC Press⁩ for making this happen. It’s been a LONG 13 yrs since I first saw the sources that form the heart of this book. ⁦Debbie Gershenowitz⁩ ⁦Sonya Bonczek⁩

Required reading from ⁦Koritha Mitchell⁩! msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

ZONG! BY M. NOURBESE PHILIP With a new preface by the author NourbeSe Philip and contributions by Saidiya Hartman and Katherine McKittrick Katherine McKittrick Fifteenth anniversary edition published by Silver Press, Graywolf Press & Invisible Publishing silverpress.org/collections/al…

Our panel discusses the importance of centering silenced histories, cultural resistance, marronage, and Black environmental knowledge/experiences as part of environmental and racial justice movements and with the academic fields of Black Geographies & Black Ecologies CLACS at NYU.

the Blackecologies Zine is an open resource containing sixty-six pages of essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, experimental field notes, and original art globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/default/…

Guess what else is happening on November 5, 2024?

I'm SO grateful that my article, "Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean," was selected as co-winner of the 2024 Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize of the Association of Caribbean Historians. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…