research post 2025 April 19
Black Puerto Rico as pedagogy and roadmap
Waiting for edits back on one project. Plotting out new work. Keeping my head above water. A cascade from the research tabs below.
Shout out to everyone who organized a day (really a week) of actions on behalf of education, students, faculty, and creating new worlds. We needed to see each other and know that we are in this fight and that we can win.
The Fires This Time
“Cornell University Student Activist Whose Visa Was Revoked Announces Departure from the U.S.,” NBC News, April 4, 2025, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cornell-momodou-taal-visa-left-us-rcna199088.
“Devyn Elijah Springer v. United States of America,” Center for Constitutional Rights, accessed April 19, 2025, https://ccrjustice.org/node/10475.
Reads
Diaz, Essah, Sarah Bruno, Daniel Morales-Armstrong, and Jessica Marie Johnson. The AfroCENTRO Reader: Revisiting Black Puerto Rican Scholarship. New York, NY: CENTRO Journal, 2024. https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/publications/the-afrocentro-reader-revisiting-black-puerto-rican-scholarship/.
Wikle, Olivia, and Evan Peter Williamson. “Static Web Methodology as a Sustainable Approach to Digital Humanities Projects.” The Code4Lib Journal, no. 60 (April 14, 2025). https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18372.
Imhotep, Ra Malika, and Miyuki Baker. “‘as Long as the Earth Can Make a Spring, Springtime, i Can Do That Also...We Are One’ - Alice Walker.” Substack newsletter. Outta My Cotton Pickin’ Mind (blog), March 6, 2025.
Jacobs, John S. A True Tale of Slavery. From The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 1861. London: Stevens and Co, 1961. https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/jjacobs/jjacobs.html.
Li, Shiyao, Margy Adams, Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, and Lauren Klein. “What Data Does and Does Not Represent: Visualizing the Archive of Slavery.” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2025, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2025.3553412.
J. E. Morgan, “‘Concubines’, ‘Mistresses’, ‘Wives’: Questions of Intimacy, Violence, and Power in the British Atlantic and U.S. South,” Slavery & Abolition, January 7, 2025, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144039X.2024.2437846
Peter H. Wood, “Can Colonial Historians Move From ‘Vast’ to ‘Deep’?,” The William and Mary Quarterly 82, no. 1 (2025): 146–53
Michael Lawrence Dickinson, “Uncovering the Black Majority: Space, Place, and Labor,” The William and Mary Quarterly 82, no. 1 (2025): 113–18.
Rafia Zafar, “Introduction: Over-Exposed, Under-Exposed: Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” in Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays, ed. Deborah M. Garfield and Rafia Zafar, Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570414.001.
‘Inside the Black (W)hole’ special issue of differences, edited by Shoniqua Roach
“Loy’s Network:Visualization,” Mina Loy - Navigating the Avant-Garde (blog), October 9, 2018, https://mina-loy.com/maps/loys-social-network/.
Roger Catlin, “The Award-Winning Artist ADÁL Has Died. Read One of His Final Interviews,” Smithsonian Magazine, accessed April 16, 2025, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/behind-devastating-prize-winning-image-adals-muerto-rico-180975010/.
Doug MacCash, “Dianne Honoré’s Black Masking Indian Suit Tells Cancer That She Won’t Bow Down,” NOLA.Com, March 16, 2023, https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/mardi_gras/dianne-honores-cancer-awareness-mardi-gras-indian-suit/article_65abc7b4-c34c-11ed-a929-c71eec0688ed.html.
Candice Lyons, “Behind the Scenes: Elizabeth Keckley, Slave Narratives, and the Queer Complexities of Space,” Feminist Studies 47, no. 1 (2021): 15–33.
“San Juan’s Iconic La Perla Neighborhood Defies Trump,” The Daily Beast, September 17, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/san-juans-iconic-la-perla-neighborhood-defies-trump/.
Bárbara I. Abadía Rexach, “Los Repiques de La Afrodescendencia En Puerto Rico: Salsa, Plena, Bomba y Rumba,” Afro-Hispanic Review 37, no. 1 (2018): 14–28.
Zaira investigadora editoria Rivera Casellas and Nairobi editora Heernández Francia, “Afrosaberes : compendio crítico teórico cumbre afro,” March 11, 2025, https://repositorio.upr.edu/handle/11721/4047.
Elizabeth Yeampierre Klein Naomi, “Imagine a Puerto Rico Recovery Designed by Puerto Ricans,” The Intercept, October 20, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/10/20/puerto-rico-hurricane-debt-relief/.
Juan J. Arroyo, “Bad Bunny’s Video for ‘El Apagón’ Is a Blistering Call to Action That Everyone Needs to See,” Rolling Stone (blog), September 17, 2022, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/bad-bunny-releases-documentary-for-el-apagon-1234594915/.
Meyby Ugueto-Ponce, Dos Pueblos Fundados Por Negros Libres. Curiepe En Venezuela y San Mateo de Cangrejos En Puerto Rico, 2022, https://www.academia.edu/86251532/Dos_pueblos_fundados_por_negros_libres_Curiepe_en_Venezuela_y_San_Mateo_de_Cangrejos_en_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.
Ifeoma Ajunwa, “A.I. and Captured Capital,” SSRN Scholarly Paper (Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, June 30, 2024), https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5119711.
“Details of Horrific First Voyages in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Revealed,” Black Agenda Report, August 22, 2018, http://blackagendareport.com/details-horrific-first-voyages-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-revealed.
David Eltis and David Richardson, Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (Yale University Press, 2008).
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, “In One Puerto Rico Mountain Town, a Wall of Mud Came Crashing Down,” Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2017, sec. World & Nation, https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-puerto-rico-landslide-20170924-story.html.
Guest Contributor, “Dispatch From the Frontlines of Puerto Rico in a Post-María World,” Latino Rebels (blog), October 9, 2017, https://www.latinorebels.com/2017/10/09/dispatch-from-the-frontlines-of-puerto-rico-in-a-post-maria-world/.
Yochi Dreazen, “Darkness: Life in Puerto Rico without Electricity,” Vox, October 23, 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/10/23/16501164/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-power-water-sewage-trump.
“Sin Luz: Life without Power in Puerto Rico (Multimedia),” Washington Post, accessed April 19, 2025, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/puerto-rico-life-without-power/.
“In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, No Power Means No Telecommunications,” Wired, accessed April 19, 2025, https://www.wired.com/story/in-puerto-rico-no-power-means-no-telecommunications/.
Rebecca Ballhaus, “Trump Denies Heavy Death Toll in Puerto Rico From Hurricane Maria,” Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2018, sec. US, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-says-democrats-inflated-puerto-rico-death-toll-from-hurricane-maria-1536846719.
Jennifer Bendery, “These Volunteer Nurses In Puerto Rico Fear FEMA Is Failing,” HuffPost, October 13, 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-fema-trump_n_59df75d5e4b00abf3646c751.
Oliver Laughland, “Ten Months without Power: The Puerto Ricans Still without Electricity,” The Guardian, August 8, 2018, sec. World news, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-electricity-ten-months.
Kate Aronoff, “There’s a Shady Puerto Rico Contract You Didn’t Hear About,” The Intercept, October 31, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/10/31/puerto-rico-electric-contract-cobra/.
Naledi Ushe, “Bad Bunny Debuts ‘El Apagón’ Music Video amid Hurricane Fiona, Addressing Puerto Rico’s Gentrification,” USA TODAY, accessed February 19, 2024, https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/09/19/bad-bunny-el-apagon-music-video-puerto-rico-hurricane-gentrification/10426694002/.
John D. Weaver, “UTUADO PLUTON, PUERTO RICO,” GSA Bulletin 69, no. 9 (September 1, 1958): 1125–42, https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1958)69[1125:UPPR]2.0.CO;2.
Julie E. Cohen, “Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia,” SSRN Scholarly Paper (Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, February 28, 2025), https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5171050.
“Powerful Photo Series ‘Puerto Ricans Underwater’ Is a Biting Metaphor For an Island Drowning in Debt,” Remezcla, accessed March 19, 2025, https://remezcla.com/features/culture/puerto-ricans-underwater-photos-adal-maldonado/.
Roger Catlin, “The Award-Winning Artist ADÁL Has Died. Read One of His Final Interviews,” Smithsonian Magazine, accessed April 19, 2025, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/behind-devastating-prize-winning-image-adals-muerto-rico-180975010/.
Colección Reyes Veray https://coleccionreyesveray.com/adal-maldonado/
Maximilíano Durón, “ADÁL, Key Photographer Whose Work Imagined New Futures for Puerto Rico, Has Died at 72,” ARTnews.Com (blog), December 11, 2020, https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/adal-maldonado-dead-1234579063/.
“The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Displays Important New Acquisition, Portrait of Leana and the Lambeth Children - VMFA Press Room,” April 17, 2025, https://vmfa.museum/pressroom/news/virginia-museum-fine-arts-displays-important-new-acquisition-portrait-leana-lambeth-children/.
Katharine Q. Seelye, “Adál Maldonado, Provocative ‘Nuyorican’ Photographer, Dies at 72,” The New York Times, January 2, 2021, sec. Arts, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/arts/adal-maldonado-provocative-nuyorican-photographer-dies-at-72.html.
“Adál Maldonado: Jíbaro Existentialist,” accessed April 19, 2025, https://www.80grados.net/adal-maldonado-jibaro-existentialist/.
“Muerto Rico,” The Outwin: American Portraiture Today | Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (blog), accessed April 19, 2025, https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2019-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/muerto-rico/.
“Muerto Rico: The Recent Portraiture of Adál,” The Common (blog), October 29, 2018, https://www.thecommononline.org/muerto-rico-the-recent-portraiture-of-adal/.
“Muerto Rico: The Recent Portraiture of Adál,” The Common (blog), October 29, 2018, https://www.thecommononline.org/muerto-rico-the-recent-portraiture-of-adal/.
“‘Muerto Rico’: La premiada fotografía que muestra el ahogo de los puertorriqueños,” Al Día News, April 9, 2025, https://aldianews.com/es/culture/patrimonio-e-historia/muerto-rico-un-sentir.
Maximilíano Durón, “ADÁL, Key Photographer Whose Work Imagined New Futures for Puerto Rico, Has Died at 72,” ARTnews.Com (blog), December 11, 2020, https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/adal-maldonado-dead-1234579063/.
Projects
Revue des Colonies: “Welcome to the project website for the Digital Scholarly Edition and Translation of the Revue des Colonies (1834-1842), the first French periodical for and by people of color.”
https://revuedescolonies.org/
Creativity in the Time of COVID: “Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice (CTC-19) is a project documenting how everyday people are using creativity to cope with the pandemic. Crowdsourcing examples of creativity during COVID-19, our public humanities collaboration focused on highlighting art as a tool for combating inequity and injustice.” https://dhlc.cal.msu.edu/creativity-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
El Puerto Rico Embassy: https://elpuertoricanembassy.msa-x.org/coconaut.html