research post 2026-04-17
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Reads
Justin L. Mann, Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press, 2026).
“The Underground Railroad by William Still, 1872 (U.S. National Park Service),” accessed April 16, 2026, https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/inde-underground-railroad-wstill-1872.htm.
Toni Cade Bambara, The Black Woman; an Anthology, with Internet Archive ([New York] New American Library, 1970), http://archive.org/details/blackwoman00toni.
Beer P. Prakken and Lauren Smith, “Black Resistance, Struggle, and Agency on Canal Street’s Neutral Ground: A Washerwomen’s Case Study, 1837-1841,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 66, no. 4 (2025): 415–50.
Zach Blas et al., eds., Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press, 2025).
Edward Jones Corredera, ed., Supplicant Empires: Searching for the Iberian World in Global History (Brepols Pub, 2025).
Department of Arts of Africa Americas Oceania, and the, “Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” October 1, 2000, https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/nok-terracottas-500-b-c-200-a-d.
por 90 Grados, Desarchivar La Mirada: Una Exhibición Para Revisar Las Visualidades Del Arte Puertorriqueño Del Siglo XX. – 90 GRADOS˚, March 16, 2026, https://90grados.com/arte/desarchivar-la-mirada-uprrp.
Jane Dailey et al., eds., Jumpin’ Jim Crow (Princeton University Press, 2000).
Toni Cade Bambara. “Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye,” in Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations, edited by Toni Cade Bambara, 240. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009).
Toni Cade Bambara, The Black Woman: An Anthology Simon and Schuster, 2010).
Rebecca Snedeker, “Once the Levees Break,” Southern Cultures 31, no. 3 (2025): 14–29.
Sara E. Johnson, “Wonder as Creative Act: Methodological Approaches in Encyclopédie Noire,” Journal of Haitian Studies 31, no. 2 (2025): 225–42
Karen B. Graubart, “Disassemblage/Reassemblage and the Archival Problem,” Journal of Haitian Studies 31, no. 2 (2025): 216–24
Manuel Covo, “Decentering the Author, Recovering Voices: From Moreau’s Encyclopédie to Périès’s Histoire,” Journal of Haitian Studies 31, no. 2 (2025): 213–15
Elise A. Mitchell, “L’Utilité de Cette Espèce de Science”,” Journal of Haitian Studies 31, no. 2 (2025): 208–12
Leslie M. Alexander, “Untelling/Retelling Black Lives: A Reflection on Sara Johnson’s Methodology in Encyclopédie Noire,” Journal of Haitian Studies 31, no. 2 (2025): 198–207.
Sara E. Johnson, Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (UNC Press Books, 2023).
“Major Update in Our NEH Lawsuit - AHA,” Https://Www.Historians.Org/, accessed April 17, 2026, https://www.historians.org/news/major-update-in-our-neh-lawsuit/.
“Humility of Things,” What Did They Eat? Where Did They Stay? Black Boardinghouses and the Colored Conventions Movement, n.d., accessed April 17, 2026, https://coloredconventions.org/boardinghouses/humility-of-things/.
“Traditional Origin Story,” The Meeting That Launched a Movement: The First National Convention, n.d., accessed April 17, 2026, https://coloredconventions.org/first-convention/origins-1830-convention/traditional-origin-story/.
Documents
List of Anthony Thompson’s Negroes (with a line item for Ben, Harriet Tubman’s father) https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/list-of-anthony-thompsons-negroes-sic/
Watch
Black Diasporican Archives Event
Hosted on site at CENTRO, The Latinx Project presented a panel curated by this year’s Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow Daniel Morales Armstrong. The program offered a retelling of the emancipation story in Puerto Rico through the archival records of the formerly enslaved people who redefined the meaning of freedom in the colony. The presentation was followed by a conversation with Ashley Coleman Taylor (UT Austin) [via zoom], Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, and Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez,
Projects
“My Bondage and My Freedom” Digital Exhibit, Amistad Research Center, https://g.co/arts/fxSw7shBQ28krfuJA
Jen White-Johnson, https://jenwhitejohnson.com/
Jennifer White-Johnson is an Afro-Latina disabled artist, designer, educator, and activist. White-Johnson was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and currently lives and works in Baltimore. Her mother was raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico, before moving to D.C. and meeting her father, a Black man from the South Side of Chicago. White-Johnson, who self identifies as Afro-Latina, was raised around colorful art—her mother liked making arts and crafts, and her father once painted an entire mural on his DC apartment wall. (source: NMAAHC Artist profile)
Affirmations and Beatitudes
Because what even is research, if not this?
Diaspora
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Grown Woman
How it feels to trust a Capricorn
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