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Semester is closing hard, fast, and with no space to breathe so these are just bullet points this week, no summaries. And this doesn’t even remotely clean my desktop of PDFs, but I at least cleared some windows.
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, and Amanda Pavley, “Notes on Black Thought in Puerto Rico: A Brief Commentary,” Diálogos, February 26, 2023, 9–28.
Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism,” Boundary 2, 1984, 19–70.
NU CEPAL, “Mujeres Afrodescendientes En América Latina y El Caribe: Deudas de Igualdad,” 2018.
Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith, “Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality,” in Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (Duke University Press, 2020).
Avonelle Pauline Remy, Infiltrating the Colonial City through the Imaginaries of Metissage: Saint-Louis (Senegal), Saint-Pierre (Martinique) and Jérémie (Haiti) (The University of Iowa, 2015).
Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to freedom: Enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation south. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Frances Smith Foster, “Octavia Butler’s Black Female Future Fiction,” Extrapolation 23, no. 1 (Spring 1982): 37–49.
Miriam Jiménez Román, “Check Both! Afro-Latin@ s and the Census,” NACLA Report on the Americas 43, no. 6 (2010): 38.
GUIDE to PUERTO RICAN RECORDS in the NATIONAL ARCHIVES NEW YORK CITY (NARA): https://www.archives.gov/files/nyc/finding-aids/puerto-rican-records-guide.pdf
George S. Ulibarri, “Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Spanish Governos of Puerto Rico” (United States National Archives, Washington, 1964).
Lynn Cowles Wartberg, “'They Was Things Past the Tellin’: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project,” 2012.
Daniel Morales-Armstrong, “Overseen and Overlooked: Spanish and British Silencing of Labor Resistance in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico,” Slavery & Abolition, January 25, 2023, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144039X.2023.2165064.
Nicholas Radburn and David Eltis, “Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49, no. 4 (2019): 533–65.
Louis-Gilles Pairault, “Les Archives d’un Crime de Masse: Comment «traiter» Les Archives de La Traite Négrière Française?,” Comma, 2018.
Jennifer L. Palmer, “Quotidian Intimacy: Gender and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century La Rochelle,” Lumières, no. 1 (2020): 57–70.
M. NourbeSe Philip, “Black W/Holes: A History Of Brief Time,” Fuse Magazine, 1998.
Philip D. Curtin and Jan Vansina, “Sources of the Nineteenth Century Atlantic Slave Trade,” The Journal of African History 5, no. 2 (1964): 185–208.
Phyllis Martin, The External Trade of the Loango Coast, 1576-1870: The Effects of Changing Commercial Relations on the Vili Kingdom of Loango (Clarendon Press, 1972).
Christina Frances Mobley, “The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti” (PhD Thesis, Duke University, 2015).
Erin Rowe, “Race in Early Modern Iberia – Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 47, no. 1 (November 9, 2022), https://asphs.net/article/race-in-early-modern-iberia/.
Jorge L. Giovanneti, Aníbal Escobar González, and Jesús Tapia Santamaría, “Antropologías Del Caribe Hispano: Notas de Campo Sobre Cuba y Puerto Rico” (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Iniciativas de Investigación y Actividad Creativa Subgraduadas (UPR RP), 2015).
Deborah K. King, “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” Signs 14, no. 1 (1988): 42–72.
The Black Womens’ Studies Booklist
https://bwstbooklist.net/
Mary Phillips, “Black Studies: Challenges and Critical Debates,” Western Journal of Black Studies 34, no. 2 (2010): 273–77.
Christa Williford, Charles Henry, and Amy Friedlander, “One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. CLIR Report No. 151.,” 2012.
Laura Helton et al., “The Question of Recovery An Introduction,” Social Text 33, no. 4 125 (December 1, 2015): 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315766.
Laura E. Helton, “On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading,” Pmla 134, no. 1 (2019): 99–120.
Joycelyn Moody et al., “In Memoriam: Professor Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006),” African American Review 40, no. 1 (2006): 5–38.
Lagniappe….
Shout out to my Penn Press listmate Elizabeth Ellis for publishing an amazing book. More on that to come, but check out: Elizabeth N. Ellis, “The Great Power of Small Nations,” in The Great Power of Small Nations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).
thank you for sharing! i love this idea of a round up of research i'm writing-and-thinking-about!