research post 2025-12-05
Alice Dunbar-Nelson claiming her Americana, Mayra Santos Febres conjuring cimarronaje, Black Alliance for Peace breaking down the conflict in Sudan and more
Rounding the bend on one writing project and starting the next one. These are starting to look less like focused research and more like kitchen sink —food, grease and messy plates everywhere. Ah well. That’s just the way love goes (in Janet Jackson voice).
Disfruta….
Reads
Frederick Marshall Rodríguez, “Cimarron Revolts and Pacification in New Spain, the Isthmus of Cimarron Revolts and Pacification in New Spain, the Isthmus of Panama, and Colonial Columbia, 1503-1800” (Ph.D. diss., Loyola University of Chicago, 1979).
Mamarame Seck, “Sur les traces d’Omar ibn Saïd, esclave musulman originaire du Fuuta Tooro (Sénégal),” Cahiers d’études africaines 251252, no. 3 (2023): 659–90, https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.45428.
Jody Benjamin, The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850 (Ohio University Press, 2024), https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.19724077.
Donald R. Wright, “Koli Tengela in Sonko Traditions of Origin: An Example of the Process of Change in Mandinka Oral Tradition,” History in Africa 5 (1978): 257–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/3171489.
David Robinson et al., “A Tentative Chronology of Futa Toro from the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries,” Cahiers d’Études Africaines 12, no. 48 (1972): 555–92.
BOULEGUE Jean, Les royaumes wolof dans l’espace sénégambien (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle) (KARTHALA Editions, 2013)
Rocío Periáñez Gómez, “Legislation and Slavery from a Local Perspective: Slaves in the Municipal Ordinances of Extremadura, 1500-1800,” in Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico, ed. Lissette Acosta Corniel (State University of New York Press, 2024)
Michael A. Gomez, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Zelia Nuttall, “Royal Ordinances Concerning the Laying Out of New Towns,” The Hispanic American Historical Review 5, no. 2 (1922): 249–54, https://doi.org/10.2307/2506027.
Karen F. Anderson-Córdova, Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico (University of Alabama Press, 2017).
Theresa A. Singleton and Jane Landers, “Maritime Marronage: Archaeological, Anthropological, and Historical Approaches,” Slavery & Abolition 42, no. 3 (2021): 419–27, https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2021.1927512.
Hilda Lloréns, Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century (Lexington Books, 2014).
Josh Jackman, “Tumblr Suffers 150 Million Drop in Traffic after Porn Ban,” The Pink News, March 14, 2019, https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/03/14/tumblr-suffers-150-million-drop-traffic-porn-ban/.
Hellen Lee, “Alice Dunbar-Nelson,” 64 Parishes, January 6, 2011, https://64parishes.org/entry/alice-dunbar-nelson-2.
Thomas Brothers, Louis Armstrongs New Orleans (WW Norton, 2007).
Cristin Dorgelo and Jacob Leibenluft, DOGE Interference in Federal Grantmaking Adds Burden, Uncertainty, and Risk | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 2025), https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/doge-interference-in-federal-grantmaking-adds-burden-uncertainty-and-risk.
M4BL Poliy Platform, “END THE WAR ON BLACK WOMEN,” M4BL, https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/end-the-war-black-women/.
Ana M. Lara, “Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects,” in The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States, ed. Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores (Duke University Press, 2010).
Zelia Nuttall, “Royal Ordinances Concerning the Laying Out of New Towns,” The Hispanic American Historical Review 5, no. 2 (1922): 249–54, https://doi.org/10.2307/2506027.
Boubacar Barry, Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Documents
The Doctrine of Discovery: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/doctrine-discovery-1493
Dred Scott v Sanford https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dred-scott-v-sandford
Sounds
Projects
GU272 Descendants Association - https://www.descendants.org/who-we-are/history
Taller Electric Marronage’s Four Rules - https://www.electricmarronage.com/emarchive
Cartography of GenAi - https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
Encyclopedia Africana - https://encyclopaediaafricana.com/
Watch
“Mayra Santos Febres and Vanessa Perez,” keynote conversation, Caribbean Modernisms 2, Puerto Rico, October 24, 2024,
Matana Roberts on Improvisation and History | Red Bull Music Academy, directed by Red Bull Music Academy, 2016, 02:03:22,
Privatized Resilience, Puerto Rican Voices, directed by Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO), 2022,
What’s Going on in Sudan?, directed by Black Alliance for Peace, 2025, 00:00,
Entre Nosotras y Nuestra Tribu / Poesía Performance e Identidad Del Caribe Colombiano, n.d., accessed December 3, 2025,
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