José Juan Pérez Meléndez

Launching my new seminar on Saint-Domingue and the world of the Haitian Revolution—looking fwd to discussing excellent works, esp. new books by Marlene Daut, @juliagaffield.bsky.social, and @malickghachem.bsky.social.

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

Israeli forces have launched a new wave of attacks on Gaza, killing at least 83 Palestinians, including 19 near al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals, the besieged enclave’s last functioning medical facilities aje.io/uwsj7b

Dehumanisation: How Israel is able to commit its genocide in Gaza Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.

Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.

My thanks also to Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall) for a keen and generous review of Peopling for Profit that appeared earlier in @tamquarterly.bsky.social:
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For open access to the book:
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+I'm w/@thiagokrause.bsky.social re: the problem w/historical analogies: Itaboraí=slave trafficker ensconced in Brazilian political and banking institutions & going after liberal nemeses protesting conservative election rigging. Not a good normative example. www.opodereaescravidao.com/banco-de-dados

Good take by @ceclynch.bsky.social on the "reactionary offensive" & amnesty as a form of erasure. But must recall that "liberal democracy" hasn't worked for the growing numbers of non-unionized and gig workers filling the ranks of "reactionary populism"–so we must not idealize it either.

Anyway, here's an email I sent @UofCalifornia President Milliken and @UCBerkeley Chancellor Lyons, on their disgraceful decision to prematurely forward names to DOE for political harassment.

UC faculty, staff, students *systemwide* are in peril. Terrible, self-defeating choice.

Where is the doleful mourning of the punditry? In terms of magnitude, any which way they look at this, it exceeds any single tragedy by exactly thousands of levels.

José Juan Pérez Meléndez. Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil: Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization. In 1974, the Brazilian federal government issued a postage stamp entitled “Migratory Streams.” The stamp, part of a larger set hailing diversity by using o

Thank you to Jeffrey Lesser @Emory for his review in the latest American Historical Review (academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...) –very meaningful for me that a scholar of Brazil I so respect shares his generous take on Peopling for Profit (now open access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...).

Legal Watch: Academic Freedom and Guns on Campus The AAUP's recent joint amicus brief opposing the mandate that guns be permitted in college classrooms in Texas highlights a growing threat to faculty and academic freedom.

For almost two centuries, the higher ed community has recognized that the presence of guns on campus inhibits the “practice of a responsible & critical mind.”

Guns rob faculty of the ability to ensure that the classroom remains the true & open marketplace of ideas at the core of academic freedom.

Peopling for Profit in now OPEN ACCESS! Many thanks to my editor @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org for making this happen.

And the report by the Palestinian Youth Movement: static1.squarespace.com/static/68927...

Palestinian Activists Urge Oakland to Stop Military Shipments to Israel | KQED A new report links hundreds of military shipments through Oakland’s airport to Israel’s F-35 fleet, raising concerns over U.S. supply chains and civilian infrastructure aiding the war in Gaza.

@kqednews.kqed.org's coverage:
www.kqed.org/news/1205363...

Another case of "business goes on as usual." Not in our name. Skip OAK until it aligns with Oaklanders' efforts to end this genocide. More links below.

¡Ya salió el Vol. 5, Núm. 1 de Categoría Cinco!

El nuevo número, "Polémicas de la Izquierda en Puerto Rico", explora las tensiones y debates actuales en la izquierda puertorriqueña, su evolución y los desafíos políticos y sociales contemporáneos.

Lee el número completo aquí: categoria5.org

É ruim esse tom celebratório. A lei que proibiu o tráfico é de 1831. Para falar em reparação, melhor seria refletir sobre a Lei Eusébio como uma grande anistia aos traficantes e senhores de escravizados que desembarcaram ilegalmente cerca 800 mil escravizados entre 1831 e 50.

Obrigado, Thiago—a gente marca um papo para depois!

Amanhã, dia 8 de julho, de manhã: conversa com colegas da UNIRIO e com quem queira juntar-se ao diálogo. Convite extensivo a todes!

Resenha: Do livro "Peopling for profit in Imperial Brazil: directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization", por Marina Simões Galvanese. Universidad Estatal Paulista.

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#MundosdoTrabalho

A historiadora Marina Simões Galvanese proverá comentário baseado na sua perspicaz resenha no último número da revista de @mundosdotrabalho.bsky.social de Peopling for Profit (www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...) —pela qual fico muito agradecido.

Pronto para uma ótima conversa re: Peopling for Profit (www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...) nesta sexta-feira com colegas do Núcleo de Estudos de Migrações, Identidades e Cidadania e do Programa da Pós em História da Universidade Federal Fluminense. Se estiver no Rio/em Niterói, junte-se à conversa!

El Seminario de Historia Aplicada invita a su siguiente sesión: "Historia con raíces: aguacates, investigación situada y los desafíos del oficio en contexto transnacional."
Presenta: Viridiana Hernández Fernández
📅17 de junio a las 16:00
📹https://www.youtube.com/live/EsDOOEAimR8

Excited to share that RADICAL SOLIDARITY received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. I'm grateful to the ACH for this recognition! @uncpress.bsky.social

Nova edição da Labor no ar com um artigo meu.

Trato de uma seca no Ceará em 1888 e de como o gov imperial enviou, sob coerção, milhares de retirantes para plantations no sul do país. Barões viram aí chance de mitigar a crise de mão de obra da abolição, com famélicos fugindo de uma crise climática.

It’s finally here!!

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@uwiscpress.bsky.social

Paperback is now available for pre-order and will be out this summer (use code PPIB2025 for a 20% discount). Looking forward to sharing the work more broadly. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...