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Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo. The cover is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom. The title is written in a bold sans serif white text in all caps with “Puerto Rican Studies” written larger. Centered on the text is a cut out in the shape of Puerto Rica revealing the background gradient. The editors' names are below in white.
This April we're releasing a slew of terrific new titles, including "Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies" edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz @santiaaurora.bsky.social and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social. Check out the full list on our blog: buff.ly/cb6xrFO
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It’s not nuanced: when you celebrate the elimination of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion it’s because you are promoting and fostering Homogeneity, Inequity, and Exclusion.
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Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo. The cover is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom. The title is written in a bold sans serif white text in all caps with “Puerto Rican Studies” written larger. Centered on the text is a cut out in the shape of Puerto Rica revealing the background gradient. The editors' names are below in white.
"Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies," edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, examines the disciplinary and epistemic transformations that have given way to new understandings of the field of Puerto Rican studies. Read the intro fro free now: buff.ly/iInTccO
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Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
See @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture tomorrow (Feb 20) at 6:00pm CST! He'll discuss his book, Puerto Rico, and how his scholarship is shaping how Puerto Rican history is being understood, even influencing Bad Bunny.
Register here: buff.ly/nDY7pBA
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You can read more of @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social's work on the history of Puerto Rico in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
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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.
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In a moment when our ability to imagine a future is under attack, I had the privilege of co-editing w @santiaaurora.bsky.social this volume gathering so many incredible scholars and activists thinking about the future of Puerto Rican Studies. The book comes out on April 21 w @dukepress.bsky.social
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Image of a book with the words Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies with gradient colors of black, blue, yellow, red.
Cover reveal day! @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social and I’s co-edited volume. We are thrilled to be in the company of such wonderful cutting edge scholars. Preorder at www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin....
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My colleague Andrea Flores, profiled @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social back in Jan 2025 about collabing with BB. www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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Last week we published this op-ed by @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social about the historic nature of this performance. Jorell is the academic who worked with bad bunny’s team on the visualizers for DTMF, which were full of lessons on Puerto Rican history
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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Jorell is quite rightly being lauded for collaborating with Bad Bunny, and his PUERTO RICO, from @princetonupress.bsky.social, is fantastic, I keep thinking, as I've watched MPLS, of his earlier book THE LETTERED BARRIADA, about PR organizing and educating under occupation in the first half of C20.
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I wrote this article last week and, luckily, it still holds after the Benito Bowl:
“I believe Bad Bunny’s performance will invite people to understand the beauty and complexity of our people’s history, even if it makes outsiders uncomfortable.”
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Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
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Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
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Congratulations to Bad Bunny, whose album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS won Album of the Year at the 2026 #GRAMMYS! 🎉 🏆️
Did you know that the album’s accompanying YouTube visualizers were written by @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, author of Puerto Rico: A National History? (1/3)
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To know more about the album of the year and its many layers, read this story about @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social.
“Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a love letter to Puerto Rico. This professor helped him tell the island’s history” www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo trabalhou com o astro Bad Bunny em seu último álbum para informar os fãs sobre a história de luta popular de Porto Rico. Seu trabalho como historiador é parte de um importante momento político pelo qual os porto-riquenhos estão passando agora.
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The CfP for the 2026 Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference in Chicago is officially live!!!
The theme is “Rooted Rican Pasts, Solidarity Futures.”
www.ricanstudies.com/2026-cfp
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ICYMI, watch “Deep Dive: Listening to Bad Bunny - @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social and Miguel Zenón in Conversation” youtu.be/YYh1WJ2fEUs Listening to key tracks, a scholar and a musician discuss the musical and cultural significance of this extremely popular artist. @cuny.edu #puertorican
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Thank you for a fascinating look at the music & impact of #BadBunny! “Deep Dive: Listening to Bad Bunny - @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social & Miguel Zenón in Conversation” was moderated by Maurice Restrepo and introduced by Agustina Checa. Video coming soon!
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Cover of Duke University Press catalog. The background features the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. "Duke University Press" is written in yellow and white in the blue triangular section and "Spring and Summer 2026" is in the red and white section on the left. Features an illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The DUP logo is in the lower right.
The Spring 2026 catalog is live! We're featuring #NewBooks by @rtrodrig.bsky.social, @beansvelocci.bsky.social, @amynbooks.bsky.social, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, @santiaaurora.bsky.social, and so many more. Check it out now: buff.ly/eJyyixc
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Given that we are in December and are looking back at the year that was, I’m particularly proud of this Bad Bunny article we published in January. It’s about how intentional Benito was about crafting the album of the year, leaning into the history of the island that made him the world’s biggest star
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Join us Wed, 12/10, 6:30p (in person or online) for Deep Dive: Listening to Bad Bunny - @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social & Miguel Zenón in Conversation – RESERVE: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/deep-... Listen to key tracks and learn about the style and significance of this extremely popular artist. #BadBunny
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Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Tomorrow (Dec 2) at 5:00 pm CST, please join the University of Minnesota in welcoming @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social for a guest lecture on his book, Puerto Rico, as part of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery's exhibit "21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora."
Learn more here: buff.ly/tqbbInO
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