Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Maria R. Montalvo Maria R. Montalvo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History. In Enslaved Archives, Maria R. Montalvo investigates the legal records, including contracts and court records, that American antebellum enslavers produced and preserved to illuminate enslavers’ capitalistic motivations for shaping the histories of […]
Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Beretta E. Smith-Shomade is a Professor of Film and Media in the Department of Film and Media. In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the […]
Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. This book is a Spanish-language edition of Colonial Debts, which was also supported by the Digital Publishing in the Humanities progam. En Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico, Rocío Zambrana ofrece una robusta conversación con pensadorxs, creadorxs […]
Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago’s infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged as a key site for the exploration of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism. In Colonial […]
An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States by Lauren F. Klein Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of English and Quantitative Methods in the Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods. There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher […]
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