Mónica A. Jiménez

Eddie Palmieri, Latin Music’s Dynamic Innovator, Dies at 88

This one hurts... 🥺😥

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Same.

Mangroves are life-giving. They are abundance. For some time I have been trying to write poems into mangroves, into my respect and love of them. There are several organizations in PR that have been working hard at restoring them, this article covers one, another is COPI in Loiza copipr.com.

I am so very grateful for this honor from the Caribbean Studies Association. It is so very meaningful to me that the book resonated with my peers in Caribbean Studies.

Power in the Darkness Dark Days By Roger Reeves Graywolf Press, 2023, 240 pages, $26 hardcover. IT IS QUITE possible that between the writing of this essay and your reading it, the United States will have entered a dark…

A beautiful and careful review of Roger Reeves' "Dark Days: Fugitive Essays" in Against the Current. This is the book we should all be reading and rereading in these terrible times.

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Today's reminder that resistance is the only way through authoritarianism. Spotted today in Rome: las mariposas, the Mirabal Sisters, whose fight against Trujillo's dictatorship in DR cost them so much, but whose memory we still hold up to the light. ¡Que vivan!

Congratulations, Emma!! Look what I got! Excited to read. So very happy for you!

Now more than ever, these books are must reads. If you're at the OAH this weekend go check out @latinxhistories.bsky.social at the @uncpress.bsky.social table!

The quote and information written in charcoal against a light blue background. At the top is the Rumpus's full logo in black with "National Poetry Month" written beside it with a gray paint splotch underneath.

"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light"

From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.

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Went axe throwing last night to celebrate the fact that I've been tenured and also to work out some of the rage I feel at the haters who tried to stop me from getting it. That's a story for another day... but for now: I got tenure, yall!

Naida García-Crespo on Mónica A. Jiménez’s *Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico* | Society for US Intellectual History Mónica A. Jiménez’s Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, offers a legal history of Puerto Rico’s colonial relation with the United States (US). The book further attemp...

"Jiménez makes a good contribution to the seemingly never-ending discussion of what exactly is Puerto Rico’s political relation to the US . . ."

Enjoy this review of MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND by @monijimenez.bsky.social on the The Society for US Intellectual History blog 🙌

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This is so wonderful! Thanks for sharing the sound recordings and your illustrations.

Theft A nightly spell of sleep falls / heavy on the sea.

Poetry is always a little spot of light in dark days. I'm joyful to have today's Poem-a-Day.

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Gave a book talk today at UT Law where I was a law student many years ago. My respondent, Sandy Levinson, was one of my MA/JD thesis advisors. Full circle moment for me!

So cool!!!

Fort Worth Zoo helping Bad Bunny’s endangered ‘sapo concho’ The Puerto Rican crested toad was featured in a film accompanying the reggaeton artist’s new album, “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

I'm from the southern coast of PR and grew up hearing about these little guys but was never lucky enough to encounter one. Very happy to see they are getting an assist.

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Bad Bunny's 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' is a love letter to Puerto Rico. This professor helped him tell the island's history Released Jan. 5, the record pays homage to the island’s rich rhythms like plena and salsa, and delves into it’s seldom taught history.

Couldn't be prouder of the homie @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social on this collab and on managing to keep it under wraps for as long as he did! History is for the people and what a great way to bring it to them! ❤️❤️

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Thanks for the update! I had to leave this morning and was super sad to not be there.

#AHA2025 has been a blast. I'm grateful to wonderful colleagues for their support of my work. And I finally got the obligatory picture of myself holding my book at the @uncpress.bsky.social book table. (And it was already sold!) Thank you to all who have purchased and read it!!

So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.

The latest from my intellectual partner in crime and in life, Roger Reeves.

Just finished Percival Everett's James, and if you haven't read it, you certainly should.

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities. More than a year into...

Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List

If you're in Austin for the Texas Book Festival, I'll be reading at 9pm as part of the Librotraficantes reading for Lit Crawl.

I'm also in the CSPAN tent today at 12:15 and presenting tomorrow at 11:30. Come by!!

To make it easier to find new and existing members of Bluesky, we're compiling a list of UNC Press authors for easy findability 🦋

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Olé!