Victor Goldgel Carballo

@hypervic.bsky.social

Prof of Latin American stuff @ UW-Madison | Cuba | History of race | Paper

Several people have asked, who are the best prose stylists among historians? Those who have been the most useful to me (in no particular order) have been Christopher Hill, C.L.R. James, E.P. Thompson, Natalie Zemon Davis, Eduardo Galeano, and (let me throw in an anthropologist) Clifford Geertz.

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I watched Dahomey (Mati Diop's awesome documentary) and loved this scene: students in Benim discussing who benefits from the repatriation of looted artifacts, vehemently disagreeing with each other, cherishing dissent.

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