Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés
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I have a fair number of new followers, and so, inspired by
@CulturedModesty
, I'd like to list and update the works of the
#AfroLatinxFutures
series, for which I have the honor of serving as series editor and
@RColesworthy
the acquisitions editor
@SUNYPress
:
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As the celebration of Mr. Schomburg continues, please allow me to re-introduce myself. I am the author of this book:
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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Born in San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico, his collecting, archiving, and writing of global Black history has impacted millions. Muchísimas gracias, Sr. Schomburg por todo.
cc:
@SchomburgCenter
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Harmonia Rosales's America's Civilized (2017)
if you see this tweet, you have to mention one of your favorite paintings!
The first time seeing it in person is like a fist to the brain 🤜 🧠. Used to be in a hallway, now MoMA displays prominently in a main gallery. Faith Ringold, American People Series
#20
: Die (1967)
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Happy birthday, Mr. Schomburg!! One of my favorite pictures of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (24 Jan 1874 - 10 June 1938), here with his sister Dolores, after whom he named his only daughter. Feliz cumpleaños, señor 🙏🏽❤
cc:
@SchomburgCenter
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Congratulations
@uche_blackstock
on being recognized for all of your work in the 2023 Health Care Power 100 via
@CityAndStateNY
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This
#NikkiGiovanni
documentary is beautiful - inspiring to the point of reflection, we get to witness in a visual medium an artist committed to complete freedom over decades. Tremendous work. Now on HBO On Demand and Max.
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Epigraph of this collection:
“I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.” —Ntozake Shange
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June 10th marked the 85th anniversary of the death of Arturo Schomburg; thank you, Mr. Schomburg, for all of your work, as we continue to learn from you and be inspired by you. And thank you for the living legacy that is the
@SchomburgCenter
.
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"Also bears repeating: Black Studies is still an archaeological project. So many archives to be built." -
@imaniperry
Yes, this is so good, I RT'd and copied and pasted. Just - YES, with every fiber of my being.
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New Edwidge Danticat coming in September from
@GraywolfPress
- more in the previous RT from
@ElectricLit
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Weeks later, he invited me on this adventure, serving as co-curator of this exhibition
@metmuseum
. Presenting "Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter," open to the public April 3 - July 16, 2023.
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122 years after his first letter to the editor, and almost a century after the sale of his private collection made these pages, Mr. Schomburg and his life's work are back in the pages of the NY Times...
#juandepareja
cc:
@SchomburgCenter
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Love you, Mommy - thank you for watching over me. Bendición. Iris Delia Colón Valdés, d. 08/02/2023
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Such a magnificent site, that site - bilingual, providing much-needed history about some of the first Africans, free and enslaved, to reach this hemisphere in written history. Here's to
@liacostacorniel
for boosting and to
@CUNYDSI
for creating it
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"The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future [..] History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset." -- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, 1925
@SchomburgCenter
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Before the month of January leaves us, I want to celebrate Oshun's Daughters; this month marks its 10th year anniversary. According to Amazon, this is my most popular book, quiet as its kept. This is the book that walked so that the Schomburg could fly.
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Robert Farris Thompson
Julius Scott
Greg Tate
May they rest in peace, as we continue to learn from how they lived their lives and the work that resulted from it
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📣 Countdown!! Only two weeks left to see Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter
@metmuseum
- this exhibition closes 2 weeks from *today* on July 16th.
To those who have already seen, be it once or repeatedly, thank you for the feedback you've shared 🙏🏽❤️
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Congratulations to all of my colleagues
@CUNY
@GC_CUNY
for securing this investment in the first Master's/PhD program in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies at CUNY 🎉🎉🎉 And a hearty thank you to the
@MellonFdn
!!
We're launching New York’s first dedicated graduate degree program in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies, thanks to a generous $5 million gift from
@MellonFdn
. The new program builds on our efforts to expand racial & social justice initiatives across CUNY.
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A behind-the-scenes look at how I came to co-curate the Juan de Pareja exhibition at
@metmuseum
- thank you,
@SUNYPress
, for the invitation to trace the journey from Diasporic Blackness to The Met
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New posting: Associate or Full Professor of Black Studies
@IamBSPCCNY
@CityCollegeNY
Please share broadly!
cc:
@CulturedModesty
@BlkPerspectives
@aswadiaspora
@WoodsonUVA
@ARCPennState
@BlackStudiesUT
@profgabrielle
@NewBlackMan
Deadline: 15 Jan 2023
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Dr. Miriam DeCosta-Willis is a foundational for those who study what was, at one point, called Afro-Hispanic literary studies. I used to teach this critical anthology, published in 2003
#AfroLatinxStudies
#AfroLatinAmericanStudies
#BlackStudies
Excited for the 82nd Convention of the College Language Association (CLA) in Memphis, the hometown of my esteemed mentor-Dr. Miriam DeCosta Willis (1934-2021)-1st Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Romance Languages at JHU, 1st Black faculty at Univ. Memphis.
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And
@jessharada
- the most stunning critique, one I fully agreed with and was inspired by, of Latin American Studies as a discipline, is by
#MyriamJAChancy
in this book: (1/)
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Dec 10, 2023 marks 125 years since the signing of the Treaty of Paris, whereby Spain lost some of its remaining colonies (Equatorial Guinea, anyone?) to the US: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. 2 of these countries are independent today - *two* of them are not.
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Following the lead of
@drashleyfarmer
, here are the historical societies I list off for students as being supportive and generative:
@ASALH
@ABWHTruth
@AAIHS
@aswadiaspora
And to all of my historian friends and colleagues, just ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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THIS BOOK RIGHT HERE - straight 🔥🔥🔥. I'm SO excited for people to read this book and how Black archiving was a site of "invention and pleasure" with archiving as a "practice of abundance... a site of intellectual risk and political possibility." 😍
This book is THE TRUTH!!
At long last, my book arrives April 16 and is available for preorder now! Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
@ColumbiaUP
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It is my pleasure and honor to join my partners in bringing more creations from Black writers from across the planet to an anglophone audience. Thank you,
@EditrixMosser
&
@VanderbiltUP
, for all of your support in making this happen.
#globalBlackwriters
#translation
VUP Director Gianna Mosser is proud to announce the launch of Global Black Writers in Translation. “In an urgent time of global change, we need to heighten the ways we share scholarship and literary writing by promoting the act of translation.”
Read more:
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Today marks exactly one month until Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter at
@metmuseum
closes...
Stay tuned for exciting activities in the upcoming weeks....
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¡¡Felicidades,
@liacostacorniel
!! 🎉🎉🎉 It is an honor to publish this study in the
#AfroLatinxFutures
series
@SUNYPress
. Qué belleza esa portada 😍
Book Cover Reveal
@DrVKV23
, series editor Afro-Latinx Futures;
@RColesworthy
, acquisition editor,
@SUNYPress
6/2024.
Cover/portada: Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899, MET
#transatlanticbondage
#sunypress
#cominginjune2024
#mamivenave
#s
ímarrona
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José Campeche (1751-1809), most famous Puerto Rican painter of the 18th century, a Black Puerto Rican man, and Francisco Oller (1833-1917) creator of some of the most important paintings of Black Puerto Ricans, including La Escuela del Maestro Rafael Cordero & El Velorio
We’re excited to welcome five iconic works by José Campeche and Francisco Oller—two of the most important painters in the history of Puerto Rican art—to Boston! The paintings have been lent to us by our friends
@museoarteponce
and are now on view in our Art of the Americas Wing.
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@AnnetteJosephG
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Please keep taking care of you through this writing - years ago I asked
@jmjafrx
about this. It's astounding, the Light you are bringing - it's not for the faint of heart. Thinking of you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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One of the biggest U.S. slave markets finally reckons with its past
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Congratulations to Milagros Denis-Rosario!! Her book, Drops of Inclusivity, about Afro-Puerto Rico, is available in paperback!!
#PBPubDay
cc:
@SUNYPress
@CentroPR
@LatinxProjNYU
🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
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@Sj_Fennell
From
@SUNYPress
- original publication in March and June 2023, paperbacks coming months later...
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As someone who played as a child 30+ years ago, I couldn't even imagine a shot like this on TV, between the champions and the broadcasters. I'm so excited for the present of women's basketball...
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@CulturedModesty
@drashleyfarmer
"At the University of Florida, 1,087 employees resigned in 2022 — the only time in the last five years that the number exceeded 1,000. Departures could top that mark again if they continue at their current pace. More than 730 employees had left UF this year as of May 31."
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One of my favorite photographs, as captured by
#HiramMaristany
. How many generations of New Yorkers instantly feel this heat and this joy.
Because of
#MiguelLuciano
, I was able to meet and break bread with Hiram and
@ArianaCurtis413
.
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"Free tuition at CUNY became a “canary in the coal mine,” Brier said. Its death was a harbinger of a new era in American higher education."
@CUNY
@CityCollegeNY
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This morning,
#AHAPerspectives
published the obituary of Mr. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in their Long Overdue series; thank you,
@lmansley
for the opportunity to compose it. cc:
@SchomburgCenter
@AAIHS
@FoxyFog
@AHAhistorians
@bess_reginald
In
#AHAPerspectives
, a new project called Long Overdue will honor historians of color whose passing the AHA did not mark. Learn more from
@lmansley
's editor's note:
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Thank you to every single person at
@metmuseum
who had any part in bringing this exhibition to life.
#JuanDePareja
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Thank you, all of you, who teach this text - I love how this is but one way that people learn about Mr. Schomburg and
@SchomburgCenter
, and afrolatinidad more generally. Thank you
@MarilisaJimenez
for tagging me!
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Speaking about the urgent need to understand Haiti, its considerable influence in Latin America and its erasure within historiography
Happy Friday y’all! Today we’re throwing it back to Season 12, with
@NewBlackMan
welcoming Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés.
You cannot comprehensively unpack the history of the Western hemisphere without talking about Haiti and its crucial role in how the colonized world was shaped,
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It is my joy and honor to serve as interim dean for
@macaulayhonors
. I look forward to deepening our relationship with all of our partner schools throughout
@CUNY
.
Please join me in an enthusiastic welcome to Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés on her first day as interim dean,
@macaulayhonors
! Her record as
@CityCollegeNY
professor,
@IamBSPCCNY
director and author of the bio on Arturo Alfonso Schomburg will be a tremendous asset.
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Pura Belpré, who worked at the 135th Street branch library, now the
@SchomburgCenter
, alongside Mr. Schomburg himself, and whose papers are held at
@CentroPR
.
#NYPL
#CUNY
our much-needed public institutions serving the people of the City of New York.
In 1921 Pura Belpré became the first Puerto Rican librarian in the
@nypl
. Through initiatives like instituting bilingual story hours and implementing Spanish-language books, Belpré pioneered the library's work with the Spanish-speaking communities.
#SmithsonianWHM
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📣📣📣 2 post-docs converting to tenure track line, with a start date of *January '22*
@CityCollegeNY
. These are
#BlackStudies
and
#LatinAm
/USLatinxStudies positions. Please share broadly and widely!!
cc:
@CulturedModesty
@aswadiaspora
@AAIHS
@CaribbeanSAssoc
@caribphil
Thanks to a
#SHARP
grant from
@NEHgov
, we are delighted to announce two post-doc positions in
#BlackCulture
and
#LatinAmericanStudies
or
#LatinxStudies
. These support research at our partner institutions:
@SchomburgCenter
and
@HSAmuseum
.
(1/2)
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"But for any young person reading this, just reach out — send a cold email, mention this article — because the problem is we don’t know they’re there until we know they’re there.” -- Nicole Varner, chief of staff for Rep. Marc Veasey and Birmingham, Alabama native.
New: I wrote about the Black Southerners who make Washington go
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And this right there is why I started the Afro-Latinx Futures series at
@SUNYPress
- authors I work with can tell you, there's no need to justify the existence of hundreds of millions of people, let's just get to the argument. Series description here:
I often have to demonstrate existence before getting into my actual argument. Can you imagine having to fight for mere recognition of existence?
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Review of The Five Demands (produced by
@jezgals
) about the 1969 Takeover
@CityCollegeNY
- the singular event that led to the entire
@CUNY
system now being all minority-serving institutions. Now playing
@DCTVny
until Thursday July 20th.
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That was a straight-up concert - never thought 20 years ago that any of the slow songs would even get a few seconds. And HER shredding on the SuperBowl field?! Prince would be proud over all - that was a show
#UsherBowl
#Usher
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2023 marks 5 years of the
#AfroLatinxFutures
series
@SUNYPress
- this year, we've published 5 books:
* SAN MATEO DE CANGREJOS
* BLACK IN PRINT
* FEMINIST SPIRITUALITIES
* BAY LODYANS
* SPIRIT OF HAITI
Thank you to the authors who trust us w/ their work & thank you
@RColesworthy
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When people ask if Juan de Pareja was the only man of African descent to reach success in the art world prior to the 19th century, I take the opportunity to speak about this man 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Another great article in this special issue on Black Artists in the Atlantic World OPEN ACCESS
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"Vicente Lusitano was an African-Portuguese composer and music theorist who was most likely born between 1520 and 1522, and who died sometime after 1562."
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This looks *beautiful*!!! So happy for the growth of Pacific World Studies and global hispanophone studies. Congratulations to all of you for bringing this into the world!!
Introducing Diego Javier Luis's THE FIRST ASIANS IN THE AMERICAS, a brilliant new history of transpacific Asian mobility through the Spanish empire. Forthcoming Fall 23!
#coverreveal
@Harvard_Press
@HarvardUPLondon
@tufts_history
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2023 has been.... a full year, one when I have felt every emotion possible. Thank you, friends and mentors old and new, partners, colleagues and collaborators. I appreciate you.
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We're in the final week of Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter.
#countdown
A head's up: for those who are visiting
@metmuseum
on Sunday, i.e. the last day of Juan de Pareja, please note that the Karl Lagerfeld exhibit also closes that day.... meaning it's going to be busy....
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Proposals welcome! Please share widely:
@fguridy
@afropresencia
@arlenedavila1
@CentroPR
@dem8z
@elotroalex
@elprofe_santana
@emilyraboteau
@ericabuddington
@FelipeERuan3
@AllisonGuess1
@mssandraguzman
@Reighangillam
@redclayscholar
@surlybassey
@GlobalLitin
VUP Director Gianna Mosser is proud to announce the launch of Global Black Writers in Translation. “In an urgent time of global change, we need to heighten the ways we share scholarship and literary writing by promoting the act of translation.”
Read more:
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Keeping it going in Week 2 with
@DrYoFiggy
at
@dartmouth
. Thankful to the organizers and to the collective gathered 🙏🏽❤️
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For those who won't be able to visit
@metmuseum
before Juan de Pareja closes, here's the exhibition page, which includes a *fabulous* audio guide, as well exhibit objects and a link to purchasing the catalogue:
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If you wander into the
@metmuseum
Shop, you'll see this beautiful display... I love how the catalog was open to that essay when I arrived 😁 I spy the new translation about San Mateo de Cangrejos from
@SUNYPress
cc:
@RColesworthy
@SchomburgCenter
#JuandePareja
#AfroLatinxFutures
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Thank you to every single person who traveled to
@metmuseum
to see this exhibition. Thank you for your openness in learning more about these men, these histories.
#JuanDePareja
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It is such an honor for Diasporic Blackness to be in conversation with Scattered and Fugitive Things. For the
#Schomburg
lovers, they will learn more about him in the decades of the 1910s - hear his words from unpublished letters at
@MoorlandHU
&
@fiskuniversity
. SO. GOOD.
@DrVKV23
🙏 Schomburg and his band of collectors deserve more words about their work, so I’m truly honored for my book to soon keep yours company on some bookshelves!!
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@AnnetteJosephG
I write this as a gentle suggestion: how about writing to these children, as an offering to them? As giving them voice? They've been waiting for us to give witness to them; only some of us hear the call.
When I write, I do so with a view in, rather than out. I hope this helps ❤
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The first 1/2 of this episode of
@AllOfItWNYC
is about 2 historical figures Mr. Schomburg wrote about in early modern Europe - cc:
@SchomburgCenter
'Chevalier': a Black violinist in Revolutionary France, Juan de Pareja at the Met via
@WNYC
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Here's the story of
@CityCollegeNY
, and how Black and Puerto Rican students took over the school for 2 weeks in 1969, leading to
@IamBSPCCNY
, PRn Studies, Asian Studies, and Jewish Studies departments, not only there but throughout the
@CUNY
system. Congratulations
@jezgals
! 🎉
THE FIVE DEMANDS, an
#NEHgrant
recipient, was selected as a finalist for the
@LibraryCongress
Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.
This film documents the 2-week student takeover of
@CityCollegeNY
in 1969 to demand greater diversity & access in
#highered
.
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*This* I didn't know - on this Valentine's Eve, thank you for sharing this book with me. Almost 500 pages of Black erotica... thank you, Dr. DeCosta-Willis. Backordered on Bookshop, it's available on Am*zon in paperback
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Thank you to my Friends
@schomburgcenter
who, for years now, have allowed me to join you in celebrating the living legacy of Mr. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
#JuanDePareja
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Thank you to
@LincolnCenter
and
@SchomburgCenter
for hosting this first panel on the legacies of San Juan Hill on Black Bohemia.
Shout out to
@ericabuddington
and
@AlDatavizguy
- the absolute JOY in meeting you both!! I admire your work so much - meeting you both?! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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I finally saw ORIGIN last night: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is a marvel -- as the woman always is, really. The entire cast, down to the smallest roles, show up for this film. It is haunting and beautiful visually and it lingers in your spirit. Kudos
@ava
.
#Caste
#AvaDuvernay
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In Alabama and Louisiana both, afrolatinidad is front and center, as GOP officials want to limit definitions of Blackness to exclude those who mark "Latino" on their census forms. cc:
@NatashaSAlford
@ProfessorTKH
@LatinoUSA
@InADash
@onwurd
Republican officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set a narrower definition of "Black" for redistricting that excludes some Black people and could minimize their voting power.
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There are so many women and, in particular, women of color, who are responding to
@naomiosaka
's tweet, including
@jemelehill
, two women I deeply admire. With all I have, please consider
@KSChristy1
's magnificent observation. I promise, it's not us. cc:
@juvaniepiquant
@NYCuratrix
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Thank you for featuring me,
@CUNY
- it is a pleasure and honor speaking on behalf of the Community that is
@macaulayhonors
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
.
@DeanValdesMHC
is an accomplished scholar, historian and mentor of students who is well positioned to further the rigorous scholarship of
@macaulayhonors
as the school approaches its 20th anniversary in May. Learn more:
#CUNYLeaders
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The
@USDOT
has awarded NYC a grant to study reimagining the Cross Bronx. There will be 4 listening sessions coming up. Thank you,
@weact4ej
, for featuring this in your newsletter, and thank you,
@SecretaryPete
, for your leadership.
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@madina_immuno
Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic by
@Prof_Edwards
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As 2022 comes to an end, please mark your calendars, as
@FestivalHughes
@CityCollegeNY
@IamBSPCCNY
honors
@Lynnbrooklyn
in-person on Thursday 9 Feb 2023.
cc:
@afprl
@IRAASColumbiaU
@Center4BlackLit
@ColumbiaSOA
@HumanitiesGC
@nyucbvc
@CCNYARTS
@ccnyalumniassoc
@CCNYEdTheatre
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Goodness, the entire BOOKS that can be written based off of single tweets on your TL.... Thank you for highlighting these human beings...🙏🏾💖
Johanna July was an expert horsewoman who trained horses for the US Army in Texas. Born c. 1860 in a Black Seminole town in Mexico, she descended from Florida’s Black Seminoles (Native people & self-liberated slaves who defeated the US Army in the 2nd Seminole War).
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As "Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter" at
@metmuseum
closes today, I start my thanks with everyone at
@BalletHispanico
for this beautiful work, "Buscando a Juan".
📷:
@TrishMayo
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If someone hasn't read
@authorMsBev
's work, particularly her historical fiction, I recommend it highly. Talk about US Black history at the center - I've learned so much that was never taught in the classrooms through these beautiful novels of romance.
#Legend
Last year I reread all of
@authorMsBev
books and put together a chronological timeline of her books that lists location and year the main story starts, names of main characters and year published. There's some details missing but it's about 90% accurate I think
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In Dec 2020, David Pullins, Associate Curator of European Paintings at
@metmuseum
, requested a conversation about an article written by Arthur Schomburg, "In Quest of Juan de Pareja," published in the Crisis in 1927.
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Last RT: for those who haven't already, if you have a chance, please read
@phdshammy29
's Half in Shadow about Nellie Y. McKay. There's so much here for us. So happy to see there's an interview on
@LeftOfBlack
- thank you
@NewBlackMan
😊😁👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Alright Beautiful
@CUNY
students and faculty, it's the final push for Spring 2023 - you got this!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉🎉
Welcome back from Spring Break!
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YESSSS
@CUNYDSI
!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
First Blacks in the Americas will be at Who Owns Black Data on March 29!
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Just learning that lacrosse is Native American, and while it is now described as sport, it had spiritual import for centuries. Thank you
@authorMsBev
- after reading almost all of your historical novels, I'm now in your Blessings series - 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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La exposición Juan de Pareja, pintor afrohispano, inspira este artículo en el
@eldiarioes
sobre Juan Latino, otro modelo de excelencia negra para el Sr. Schomburg. Se puede ver un ejemplar de Juan Latino en la exposición en el
@metmuseum
@SchomburgCenter
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If this isn't the most *beautiful* packaging I've ever seen from a bookstore - and no, I didn't pay for giftwrapping. Please support
@wrbooksandmore
of Kissimmee, FL, it was born out of the fight against book banning. Thank you
@erinbookdragon
& Tania Galiñanes for the care 🙏🏽💖
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Thank you, dearest
@SchomburgCenter
🙏🏽❤
#HispanicHeritageMonth
: The writings of
@DRVKV23
expand and redefine the conversations on
#AfroLatinx
culture. Our Research and Reference Division has her books in their collections.
#SchomburgCenter
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Thank you,
@drblkhistory
for the invitation and the opportunity to exchange thoughts about Mr. Schomburg and the Black histories we still need to recover and study and write.
"Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg." A conversation with Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, The City College of New York). Register by using the QR-code on the flyer or here:
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@esdsantos
Respect the potential book that is in front of you, rather than write comments as if it's your book. Offer commentary and questions that can make it stronger. You are in community with this person - how does this book illuminate, highlight, bring attention to the field?
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This year
@elmuseo
named me an honorary madrina of their Three Kings Day Parade; I didn't get a chance to try on my costume (see TL of
@ChancellorCUNY
), but let me take a moment to honor the legacy of Antonia Pantoja, alumna of
@Hunter_College
, educator & founder of
@nyaspira
Keeping traditions alive:
@DeanValdesMHC
was named an honorary madrina by
@ElMuseo
as part of their
#3KingsDay
celebration. 👑💎🐪Honorees are nominated for contribution to the NYC Latinx communities.
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