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Mónica A. Jiménez

@monijimenez.bsky.social
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Writer, baker, and prof. Caribbean history, race, law & empire. Puerto Rico, poetry & pilates. Reluctant soccer mom and lover of plants. Author of Making Never-Never Land @UNC Press.

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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We fought hard to keep our majors, even in the face of our departments closing, b/c we know what it took to create them in the first place. Decades of work by elders to ensure this knowledge would have a place at the "best" public university in TX. www.kut.org/education/20...
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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majors
The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm teaching Race, Law and US Society, which is on this list and has been deemed "too narrow." Some readings: US Constitution, Federalist Papers, Notes on the State of Virginia, Cherokee Nation Cases, Scott v. Stanford, Brown v Board... so US legal history... too narrow? Or just too about race?
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Love to see it www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
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ACLU of Texas, Professors Sue Texas A&M System Over Censorship Policy, Detail Violations of Academic Freedom - ACLU of Texas
Faculty have been instructed to remove educational materials — like the film “Moonlight” and writings by Plato — from syllabi following policy banning race, gender, and sexual orientation related topi...
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Why, oh why, is anyone seeking advice from John Yoo, he of the Yoo-Bybee Torture Memos?!
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
As a faculty member of UT's distinguished African and African Diaspora Studies Department, I am angry at the disingenuous way UT is characterzing us and our scholarship. But as an alum of UT (MA, JD, PhD) I am sad to see my alma mater debase itself to curry favor with the ignorance of the right.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Before you rush off to buy your tix to PR, please educate yourself a bit. You can read my book (Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of PR) & my homie's @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social (PR: A National History) & many others, just do your homework. consequence.net/2026/02/bad-...
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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show Leads to 245% Spike in Travel Interest to Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny's halftime show has caused a major increase in flight searches to Puerto Rico and other Latin countries.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Necessary reading from my brilliant college roomie and former prosecutor of dirty cops, Sam Trepel. Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t | Kristy Parker and Samantha Trepel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t | Kristy Parker and Samantha Trepel
As former federal prosecutors, we know an incident like the Minneapolis shooting must be followed by a credible inquiry
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
"An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good" - by Danez Smith "Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent." www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Been doing oral exams for the past few years and the students and I both love them. Its a heavy lift up front but the payoff is worth it. 10/10 totally recommend.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New leaf! Big Monse!
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Get this beautiful book and let it move you as it is moving me. And if you're in one of these cities, go check out the brilliant @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social in person.
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
AUSTIN, CHICAGO, NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, DC, ATLANTA, LOS ANGELES and OAKLAND: The Queen Mother Audley Moore tour is coming! RSVP to a book event near you today: www.ashleydfarmer.com/events
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Events — ASHLEY D. FARMER
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
In this dismal landscape, moments of joy and ecstasy can be found. Especially if you have the right DJ... www.austinchronicle.com/music/2025-0...
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Body Rock, Austin’s Sacred Dance Institution, Prevails After 15 Years
Finding moments of flight onstage and on the dance floor
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I am going analog this semester. For my sanity.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This one hurts... 🥺😥 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...
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Eddie Palmieri, Latin Music’s Dynamic Innovator, Dies at 88
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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.
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COPI – Corporación Piñones Se Integra (COPI)
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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. againstthecurrent.org/atc236/power...
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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…
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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!
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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!
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 02/04/2025
"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. ➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
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.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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!
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"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 🙌 s-usih.org/2025/02/naid...
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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...
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Poetry is always a little spot of light in dark days. I'm joyful to have today's Poem-a-Day. poets.org/poem/theft-0
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Theft
A nightly spell of sleep falls / heavy on the sea.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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!
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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. www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/01...
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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.”
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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! ❤️❤️ www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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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.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#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!!
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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The latest from my intellectual partner in crime and in life, Roger Reeves.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Just finished Percival Everett's James, and if you haven't read it, you certainly should.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/11/2024
Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List
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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...
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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!!
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
To make it easier to find new and existing members of Bluesky, we're compiling a list of UNC Press authors for easy findability 🦋 Comment to let us know you're here ↙️📚https://go.bsky.app/RKSF82c
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Olé!
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