research post 2025-08-02
History, time, and colonialism
Reads
David Scott, “Preface: A Library of Things We Forgot to Remember,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 29, no. 1 (76) (2025): vii–x, https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11863322.
Osbey, Brenda Marie. “The Poem as History.” Warscapes, October 15, 2013. http://www.warscapes.com/poetry/poem-history.
Tracy Fessenden, “The Sisters of the Holy Family and the Veil of Race,” Religion and American Culture 10, no. 2 (2000): 187–224, https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2000.10.2.03a00030.
Edward T. Brett, “Race Issues and Conflict in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Religious Life: The New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family,” U.S. Catholic Historian 29, no. 1 (2011): 113–27.
Mary Bernard Deggs, Virginia Meacham Gould, and Charles E. Nolan, No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Indiana University Press, 2002).
Edward T. Brett, New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family, The: African American Missionaries to the Garifuna of Belize (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012).
Ricardo Mariani, “Fuego y Cimarronaje En La Obra Quema’o #3 Del Artista Jean ‘Baco’ Ortiz,” CentroPR, July 29, 2025, https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/publications/fuego-y-cimarronaje-en-la-obra-quemao-3-del-artista-jean-baco-ortiz/.
Lindsey Stewart, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic (2025)
Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (The University of North Carolina Press, 1990).
Juan Vicente Iborra-Mallent et al., “The Origins of the Idea of ‘Internal Colonialism’ in African-American Communist Harry Haywood’s Critical Thinking: A Chronicle of a Conversation with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall,” Tabula Rasa 35 (September 2020), https://www.revistatabularasa.org/en/issue-35/the-origins-of-the-idea-of-internal-colonialism-in-african-american-communist-harry-haywoods-critical-thinking-a-chronicle-of-a-conversation-with-gwendolyn-midlo-hall/.
Emmanuel Felton, “60-Year-Old Black History Archive Faces Uncertain Future after Federal Cuts,” The Washington Post, July 23, 2025, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/23/amistad-black-history-trump/.
“Comment from the AfroLatino Coalition on Proposed Census Race/Ethnicity Coding List,” Latino/Hispanic Is Not A Race, accessed August 2, 2025, https://www.latinoisnotarace.info/resources/comment-from-the-afrolatino-coalition-on-proposed-census-raceethnicity-coding-list.
Joniel R. Pacheco Muñoz, “Tipas Raras Cargando Un Movimiento: Reggaetón, Decoloniality, and Knowledge Through Subversion,” Caribbean Studies 51, no. 2 (2023): 3–31.
Ramon Grosfoguel, “Afro-Caribbean Decolonial Thought: A Short Introduction,” Tabula Rasa, no. 35 (September 2020), https://www.revistatabularasa.org/en/issue-35/afro-caribbean-decolonial-thought-a-short-introduction/.
admin, “Affirmation” by Assata Shakur – The Feminist Wire, May 16, 2013, https://thefeministwire.com/2013/05/affirmation-by-assata-shakur/.
“Principles Of Unity,” The Black Alliance for Peace, accessed August 2, 2025, https://blackallianceforpeace.com/principles-of-unity.
SONG, “The Mandate: A Call and Response From Black Lives Matter Atlanta,” Southerners on New Ground, July 14, 2016, https://southernersonnewground.org/themandate/.
CAIR Calls on Maryland to Reverse ‘Biased, Racist, and Exclusionary’ Social Studies Revisions Erasing Palestine, n.d., accessed August 2, 2025, https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-on-maryland-to-reverse-biased-racist-and-exclusionary-social-studies-revisions-erasing-palestine/.
Prisonculture, “The Struggle Is Permanent: Keep Fighting,” Substack newsletter, Prisons, Prose & Protest, June 23, 2025,
Projects
“ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice,” accessed August 2, 2025, https://www.vera.org/ice-detention-trends





