We had a wonderful time at the Black Experiences in the wider Atlantic symposium PSU History Dept. . Thanks to J. Norma Watson🌻 for co-organizing and congrats to Cassie Osei is Writing a Book Proposal for your first Keynote!

The program for the research symposium 'Black Experiences in the Wider Atlantic' is now available! If you are in the State College area, please do not hesitate to attend! We have excellent panels, wonderful scholars, and great keynote speakers! The event is open to the Public!

If you're in State College this Friday, come through for what will be a PHENOMENAL symposium. I, along with fellow baddie Kaysha Corinealdi and David Wheat, am keynoting. My dear friends and co-conspirators Juan Andrés Suárez and Jamie Andreson, PhD are among the symposium panelists. More info⬇️

Thank you Lucas for inviting me to be part of this fierce, audacious (ha!) and excellent panel. You and your work are solid, as is your character. I am thrilled that we get to keep growing together as colleagues, collaborators, and most importantly, friends.

Transgressive rural workers, subversive maids, and dressing down racist dog whistles in the press: so much to dig into!

Lucas, Fernando and I are looking forward to catching you at our panel at the Brazilian Studies Association next week. See you soon😎

HAHR21 maintains a largely unparalleled review section for books in Latin American history.

Check out some great ones by A. S. Dillingham Sarah Walsh Kevan Antonio Aguilar Marixa Lasso, PhD. Renata Keller Chase Caldwell Smith Sara Kozameh William A. Booth and Cassie Osei is Writing a Book Proposal here
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/advance-p…

If there’s any day to be introduced to the legendary Brazilian artist Jorge Ben Jor, today’s the day - on his birthday!

If you live outside of Brazil, you’ve likely heard his music without ever knowing it was his! Read on, it’s a 🧵

Happy to share that my review of Ian Merkel's fascinating book, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences, is out now in HAHR21.

read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-a…

#tbt : That time I wrote about a famous white woman who writes about Black people and got run off the internet by Black people because of a very famous Black woman + Black women's anger as a guide + the friendship that was never supposed to happen.
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#tbt : Aquele momento quando escrevi um texto sobre a polêmcia da Lilia Schwarcz em Folha (2022), o lugar de fala, a raiva da mulher negra e amizade interracial...tudo disso escrevii com um homem branco, um migue de 500 anos. Leia: revistacult.uol.com.br/home/o-lugar-d…

Due to form, word, and scope constraints, scholars make choices on what to include or exclude. What doesn't make it to print?

Controversy, new directions, and my own mistakes. Read what I left out of my Black Perspectives piece on Carolina Maria de Jesus.
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PS - cassieosei.com is the new digital home I was talking about! I'll post on X occasionally, but if you want to stay in touch or hear what I have to say, you should go there from now on (particularly Glitch Notes the Blog).

Plus, there's more on the way 😎 Abraços!