Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezNathan Gomes @nathangomes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026piaui.uol.com.br/web/os-oito-...piaui.uol.com.brOs oito esquecidosEm 1824, um motim de imigrantes alemães rumo ao Brasil expôs os limites da liberdade 011
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Exciting news - the British Newspaper Archive's new platform is here Explore millions of digitised pages of newspapers and other publications from our British and Irish collections, dating as far back as the 1700s We can't wait to get exploring 🗞 link.bl.uk/7ci 910842
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezHistory UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Please join us on Thursday, May 21 for the Puerto Rico & the Diaspora Symposium. Along with the research of faculty and graduate students from across campus, the event will feature the research of History majors! The artwork for the attached flyer was created by history major Samuel Cervantes. 032
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Well, what a brilliant and beautiful film review of The Secret Agent/O agente secreto! antipodeonline.org/2026/03/24/c...antipodeonline.orgFilm Review—“Cinema Undercover: The Secret Histories of Kleber Mendonça Filho” - Antipode OnlineChris N. Lesser (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) “…every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably.” — Walter B... 010
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezThe Center for Puerto Rican Studies @centropr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026#OnThisDay, March 24, 1976, the takeover of Hostos Community College in the Bronx became a symbol of resistance for Puerto Rican and Latino communities fighting for education. Led by activists like Efraín Quintana and Félix Vega, it sparked citywide solidarity. 054
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Extendendo o convite a quem se achar nas vizinhanças da Unicamp essa quinta-feira e queira bater um bom papo sobre os mundos do Brasil império. / Extending the invitation to anyone around Unicamp this Thursday who'd like to talk about the worlds of imperial Brazil. 020
Reposted by José Juan Pérez Meléndezeraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Looking forward to this talk by Victoria Bergbauer (Emory) and Miqueias Mugge (Princeton): 0182
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 15/01/2026"@historians.org's mission is to serve historians. Its principles commit it to take a stance “when public/private authorities, in the US or elsewhere, threaten the preservation of or free access to historical sources.” Yet it refuses to do so for Palestinians." www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4711...jadaliyya.comWe Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council VetoesWe, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business... 0147
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAnti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 04/01/2026On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado. anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/ 120148
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Happening now! www.youtube.com/live/qDES5Gp...youtube.comScholasticide in Palestine: A Primer for LaborYouTube video by TheAAUP 010
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Sharing my review of @maryhicks.bsky.social's fascinating book Captive Cosmopolitans! In the new issue of Slavery & Abolition: doi.org/10.1080/0144...doi.orgCaptive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic SlaveryPublished in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2025) 282
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Pls sign/share! UNC is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation by publishing all syllabi online. This puts a target on instructors' backs. It clears a path for abuse and endangers student safety. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...actionnetwork.orgProtect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our CommunitiesFaculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ... 179
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezImmigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 08/12/2025***Nikki Keddie Book Award Winner*** Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class! 0238
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Over Thanksgiving the @historians.org violated its own bylaws to halt discussion of a member-supported revote on the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza at #AHA2026 Hear from Palestinian historians & AHA members about what this anti-democratic move means. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4704...jadaliyya.comPalestinian Historians Group Responds to AHA Council Blocking Two Anti-Genocide ResolutionsWe, the Palestinian Historians Group, reject the American Historical Association (AHA) Council’s antidemocratic decision on November 26, 2025 to unilaterally deny AHA members the right to vote on the ... 11610
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/11/2025UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92 17751221
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezDaniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025One day I will write a lengthy essay on the excruciating psychological pain the absurd practice of American leaf-blowing bestows upon me. 071
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/10/2025US President Trump says several Middle East allies have told him they’d “welcome the opportunity…to go into Gaza with a heavy force and ‘straighten out Hamas’” if the group violates the ceasefire aje.io/wllk1u 209956
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/10/2025Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0 4308226
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Launching 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. 071
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2025Much 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)propublica.orgThat Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election DenialA 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. 11526491400
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2025Israeli 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 5145122
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/09/2025Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.bit.lyDehumanisation: How Israel is able to commit its genocide in GazaIsrael has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts. 11314177
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 16/09/2025My thanks also to Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall) for a keen and generous review of Peopling for Profit that appeared earlier in @tamquarterly.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/tam..... For open access to the book: doi.org/10.1017/9781... 011
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 15/09/2025+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-dadosopodereaescravidao.combanco de dados | Poder e Escravidão 000
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Good 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. 000
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Anyway, 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. 15119
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Where 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. 000
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Thank 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...).academic.oup.comJosé 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 000
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAAUP @aaup.org · 12/09/2025For 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.aaup.orgLegal Watch: Academic Freedom and Guns on CampusThe 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. 0178
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Peopling for Profit in now OPEN ACCESS! Many thanks to my editor @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org for making this happen. 131
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Another 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. 100
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezCategoría 5 @categoria5.bsky.social · 04/09/2025¡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 011
Reposted by José Juan Pérez Meléndezfelipeazv @felipeazv.bsky.social · 04/09/2025É 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. 23518
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Amanhã, dia 8 de julho, de manhã: conversa com colegas da UNIRIO e com quem queira juntar-se ao diálogo. Convite extensivo a todes! 020
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezMundos do Trabalho @mundosdotrabalho.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Resenha: Do livro "Peopling for profit in Imperial Brazil: directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization", por Marina Simões Galvanese. Universidad Estatal Paulista. periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mu... #MundosdoTrabalho 001
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 25/06/2025A 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. 020
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezDivisión de Historia del CIDE @historiacide.bsky.social · 16/06/2025El 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 022
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezLisa Materson @lmaterson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Excited 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 1144
Reposted by José Juan Pérez Meléndezfelipeazv @felipeazv.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Nova 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. 153
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezCorrie Decker @corriedecker.bsky.social · 28/05/2025It’s finally here!! uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/The-... @uwiscpress.bsky.social 151
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Paperback 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... 0132
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezCorrie Decker @corriedecker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025cucfa.org/2025/04/addr...cucfa.orgCUCFA and AFT call upon UC to immediately address Student Visa Revocations – The Council of UC Faculty Associations 031
Reposted by José Juan Pérez MeléndezAAUP @aaup.org · 25/03/2025BREAKING: The AAUP & chapters @ Harvard, Rutgers, & NYU; & the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump admin from carrying out arrests, detentions, & deportations of students & faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests & protected 1st Amendment activities.aaup.orgAAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful SpeechThe national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,... 0359145
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Happy to share my new article, "A Tropical Vienna," which offers a new take on how Brazil became independent. Open access in The Americas! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 0193