Brazilian hip hop star Emicida is coming to Pittsburgh!🇧🇷🇧🇷And you can take a FREE and PUBLIC two-day class on Afro-Brazilian history, music, culture with him plus see his AmarElo documentary at Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies. 👇🏾Register here👇🏾 ucis.pitt.edu/clas/emicidacl…

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Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is coming soon! I am grateful to so many people, especially: -esteemed scholars in 🧵for their generous readings of the book -my editor Cecelia Cancellaro Cambridge University Press - History & El Anatsui for this magnificent artwork /1

Bate Papo com Emicida na Universidade de Pittsburgh, organizado pela historiadora Keila Grinberg

If you are a postdoctoral scholar, independent researcher, or creative writer interested in studying at the #SchomburgCenter, consider applying to our Scholars-in-Residence Program. Deadline 12/1. Long & short-term fellowships. Stipend. ow.ly/WRgI50TxiVQ

Contributing to Black Voices of Appalachia Oral History Project was one of my life’s proudest achievements. As folks pick up the pieces down in WNC and East TN after Helene, my heart is especially with those I worked and built community with down there. nps.gov/podcasts/black…

Overjoyed that the cover for 'Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' includes these beautiful & generous words by esteemed scholars whose own works have been so foundational & inspiring. Pre-order w/20% discount w/code: SFBE2024 cambridge.org/core/books/sla…

I’m very much looking forward to presenting a new paper “Gendered Subjectivities in African Diaspora Religions: Embodied, performative and oral archives of ritual” at the upcoming “A Turn to Africa” Conference as a The Graduate Center postdoctoral fellow at the City College of NY this Friday

She was my age. Asking for $50k to evacuate and raised only $3k. While so-called feminists raised over a billion for a millionaire candidate who refuses to stop the carnage and plans to build a “lethal fighting force” that will visit more on this world. hyperallergic.com/959701/palesti…

In the weeks leading up to the most consequential election of my lifetime, there’s been a great deal of focus on Black men. But the group we should have been focusing on is white women — the nation’s largest electorate. White women are the only American women where the majority

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom BROKE THIS SHIT DOWN.

Proud to have my book review out! Afolabi, Niyi. Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural Hybridities Albany, NY: ⁦SUNY - The State University of New York⁩ Press, The Journal of Religion: Vol 104, No 4 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic by Chloe Ireton An intellectual history exploring how free and enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized and contested slavery and freedom. 📚 cup.org/4gUfaSj #latinamericanhistory

Today! Sunday Jan. 5 @ 1:30 pm I will present a new work “Historical Genealogies of Black Feminism in Brazil” #AHA2025 Hilton, Concourse E. Hope to see you there!

I decided to #BoycottAHA26 after the American Historical Association Council's decision to veto the scholasticide resolution. If they can veto a resolution that passed with overwhelming support, then let's hit them where it hurts: proposals and registration fees. #FreePalestine