Film Review—“Cinema Undercover: The Secret Histories of Kleber Mendonça Filho” - Antipode Online Chris 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...

Well, what a brilliant and beautiful film review of The Secret Agent/O agente secreto! antipodeonline.org/2026/03/24/c...

#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.

Extendendo 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.

Looking forward to this talk by Victoria Bergbauer (Emory) and Miqueias Mugge (Princeton):

We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes We, 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...

"@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...

Photo of the young CLR James

On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.

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Happening now! www.youtube.com/live/qDES5Gp...

Hi Mary! It's a beautiful book and I loved reading it. A big congratulations to you. The conversation continues of course—and I'm already using it in my courses!

Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2025)

Sharing my review of @maryhicks.bsky.social's fascinating book Captive Cosmopolitans! In the new issue of Slavery & Abolition: doi.org/10.1080/0144...

Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities Faculty, 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 ...

Pls 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...

***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!

Palestinian Historians Group Responds to AHA Council Blocking Two Anti-Genocide Resolutions We, 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 ...

Over 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...

UN 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

One day I will write a lengthy essay on the excruciating psychological pain the absurd practice of American leaf-blowing bestows upon me.

US 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

Gaza 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

Launching 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.

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial A 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.

Much 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)

Israeli 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

Dehumanisation: How Israel is able to commit its genocide in Gaza Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.

Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.

My thanks also to Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall) for a keen and generous review of Peopling for Profit that appeared earlier in @tamquarterly.bsky.social:
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For open access to the book:
doi.org/10.1017/9781...

+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-dados

Good 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.

Anyway, 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.

Where 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.

José 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

Thank 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...).

Legal Watch: Academic Freedom and Guns on Campus The 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.

For 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.

Peopling for Profit in now OPEN ACCESS! Many thanks to my editor @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org for making this happen.