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

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

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/...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

#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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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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The latest from my intellectual partner in crime and in life, Roger Reeves.

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Just finished Percival Everett's James, and if you haven't read it, you certainly should.

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Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List

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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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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

submitted 109 days ago • 47 comments

Olé!

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