research post 2025 March 09

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Caribe Fractal, José Arturo Ballester, 2019

Boy did these pile up quick. Finding beauty in the research, the writing, and in flights of imagination. Enjoy…..

Reads

• Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, “Death and Temporality in Against Muerto Rico,” The Caribbean Philosophical Association, accessed February 29, 2024, https://caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/death-temporality.

• Marisol Lebrón, Against Muerto Rico/Contra Muerto Rico: Lessons From the Verano Boricua/Lecciones Del Verano Boricua, Multilingual edition (Cabo Rojo, PR: Editora Educacion Emergente, 2024).

• Lucy Suchman, “The Uncontroversial ‘Thingness’ of AI,” Big Data & Society 10, no. 2 (July 1, 2023): 20539517231206794, https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231206794.

• Adam Serwer, “The Great Resegregation,” The Atlantic (blog), February 22, 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/.

• Stephany Bravo and Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, “Reflections: On Strike MoMA, Caribe Fractal and Decolonial Feminisms as Political Arts Practice,” Feminist Formations 35, no. 1, accessed November 22, 2023, https://issuu.com/nreedy1/docs/_feminist_formations_35.1/s/30529529.

• “Volunteers Are Helping Puerto Rico from Home, with a Map Anyone Can Edit,” PBS News, October 1, 2017, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/volunteers-helping-puerto-rico-home-map-anyone-can-edit.

• Vinigi L. Grottanelli, “Nzema High Gods,” Paideuma 13 (1967): 32–42.

• Mohammed Elnaiem, “The ‘Deviant’ African Genders That Colonialism Condemned,” JSTOR Daily, April 29, 2021, https://daily.jstor.org/the-deviant-african-genders-that-colonialism-condemned/.

• Michele Prettyman, “Doing It, Fluid: Elissa Blount Moorhead and the Making of a Moving Image Arts Community,” Liquid Blackness 6, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 168–203, https://doi.org/10.1215/26923874-9546612.

• Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, “To Live and Die in the Colony: Notes on Fractured Temporality and Fugitive Thought,” [Taller] Electric Marronage (blog), May 7, 2021, https://www.electricmarronage.com/electricblog/2021/5/5/to-live-and-die.

• “[Rule 1, Archived] How Do You Escape?,” [Taller] Electric Marronage, accessed March 9, 2025, https://www.electricmarronage.com/rule-1-escape.

• Jose Arturo Ballester, “Gallery: En Tiempos De Pandemia/Remedios Caseros,” [Taller] Electric Marronage, accessed March 9, 2025, https://www.electricmarronage.com/new-gallery-2.

• LifexCode, “TODAY 12/15: Caribe Fractal/Fractal Caribbean Exhibit Opening,” Substack newsletter, LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure (blog), December 15, 2020.

• Merrit Kennedy, “School Closures Loom In Puerto Rico As Enrollment Shrinks After Maria,” NPR, January 4, 2018, sec. K-12, https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/01/04/574344568/school-closures-loom-in-puerto-rico-as-enrollment-shrinks-after-maria.

• Carmen Teresa Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies (Temple University Press, 2001).

• Diana Roy and Amelia Cheatham, “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis | Council on Foreign Relations,” January 8, 2025, https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/puerto-rico-us-territory-crisis.

• Roopika Risam et al., “Editors’ Notes: February 2025,” Reviews in Digital Humanities VI, no. 2 (February 24, 2024), https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.c1cc8081.

• Alexia Fernández Campbell, “It Took 11 Months to Restore Power to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. A Similar Crisis Could Happen Again.,” Vox, August 15, 2018, https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/15/17692414/puerto-rico-power-electricity-restored-hurricane-maria.

• Jessica Marie Johnson, “Like Praying: Puerto Rico on a Map - AAIHS,” Black Perspectives, October 28, 2017, https://www.aaihs.org/like-praying-puerto-rico-on-a-map/.

• María Uriarte, Jill Thompson, and Jess K. Zimmerman, “Hurricane María Tripled Stem Breaks and Doubled Tree Mortality Relative to Other Major Storms,” Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (March 25, 2019): 1362, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09319-2.

• Bisa Butler, I Go To Prepare A Place For You, accessed March 9, 2025, https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2021.38.

• “BOMB Magazine | Matana Roberts by Christopher Stackhouse,” BOMB Magazine, 2015, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/matana-roberts/.

• Walter Hawthorne, “New Data Historians and the Study of Slavery in Vast Early America,” The William and Mary Quarterly 81, no. 2 (2024): 309–18.

• Jessica Marie Johnson, “‘Are These the Bones of Blacks?’ An African American Social Construction of Justice,” Somatosphere (blog), January 24, 2018, https://somatosphere.com/forumpost/are-these-the-bones-of-blacks/.

• Lauren Klein et al., “Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research” (arXiv, February 26, 2025), https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.19190.

• “Santurce y 8 crónicas de viaje,” accessed March 6, 2025, https://www.80grados.net/santurce-y-8-cronicas-de-viaje/.

• Aly DesRochers, “Research Guides: Yo Soy (I Am): The Historical Trajectory of Language in Puerto Rico: English Language Influence,” research guide, accessed March 9, 2025, https://guides.loc.gov/language-in-puerto-rico/english-language.

• Padilla, “I Believe in Puerto Rico,” The Latinx Project at NYU (blog), January 29, 2020, https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/i-believe-in-puerto-rico.

• Florian Urban, “La Perla – 100 Years of Informal Architecture in San Juan, Puerto Rico,” Planning Perspectives 30, no. 4 (October 2, 2015): 495–536, https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2014.1003247.

• Syra Ortiz-Blanes Miami Herald (TNS), “A Historic Puerto Rico Church That Once Welcomed Freed Slaves Now Takes in Haitian Refugees,” The Frederick News-Post, December 11, 2021, https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/lifestyle/religion/a-historic-puerto-rico-church-that-once-welcomed-freed-slaves-now-takes-in-haitian-refugees/article_1ca27da6-cb22-5cb0-a233-5978dcd1a4a6.html.

• “I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus,” March 5, 2025, https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats.

• Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, “Lele’s Festival de Ñame, 2007: 5,000 Years of Culinary History,” Latino Genealogy & Beyond (blog), November 29, 2017, https://latinogenealogyandbeyond.com/blog/leles-festival-de-name-2007-5000-years-of-culinary-history/.

• Kim Gallon, “Synthetic Data and Health Equity,” accessed January 27, 2025, https://just-tech.ssrc.org/field-reviews/synthetic-data-and-health-equity/.

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• Olivia Barnard et al., “Kinship & Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana,” Scholarly Editing Journal, no. Volume 41 (May 24, 2024), https://doi.org/10.55520/YSF9HQNH.

• Gordon Sayre, “A Newly Discovered Map by Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz,” Commonplace 9, no. 4 (July 2009), https://commonplace.online/article/a-newly-discovered-map/.

• J. Alfred SKERTCHLY, Dahomey as It Is; Being a Narrative of Eight Months in That Country, with a Full Account of the ... Customs ... of the Ffous; Also an Appendix in Ashantee, and a Glossary of Dahoman Words and Titles ... With Illustrations from Sketches by the Author, 1874.

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• Sir Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in America and Its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies (J.W. Parker and Son, 1855).

Carte de la coste de la province de la Louisiane et des bouches du Micissipy ou fleuve St. Louis, by Jean Lefargue, 1768

Watch

• Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Institutional Divestment: A Black Feminist Approach, 2025,

CARIBE FRACTAL Y PENSAMIENTO AFRODIASPÓRICO, 2021,

Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo-Hall - Full Edited Interview, 2016,

• Misa y Conversatorio Histórico: El Origen de San Mateo de Cangrejos y La Iglesia | By Corredor Afro | Facebook, accessed March 6, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/corredorafro/videos/misa-y-conversatorio-hist%C3%B3rico-el-origen-de-san-mateo-de-cangrejos-y-la-iglesia/357014426725306/.

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