Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies
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Insurrect! publishes writing related to the historical and cultural legacies of colonialism in the Americas and Atlantic World, broadly defined.
🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 “'Grammar of Resistance': Carnival as Political Counter-Narration in Grenada" by Sasha C. Wells Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/gra...
“Grammar of Resistance”: Carnival as Political Counter-Narration in Grenada — INSURRECT!
“While characters like Jab-Jab are used as marketing devices, carnival in Grenada illustrates how Black cultural performance can function as a response to colonial and post-colonial oppression. Althou...
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "No Safe Harbor: Martin R. Delany's Figurative Emigrations" by Michael Soriano Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/no-...
No Safe Harbor: Martin R. Delany's Figurative Emigrations — INSURRECT!
“One need not look outside the United States for models of oppression and resistance. Instead, strategies for surviving fascist conditions have been developed and refined by Black people for centuries...
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"Historically, empires have never been, and will never be, the arbiters of morality or ethics, especially when it comes to migrants and border politics." Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
Colonial “Illegals”: Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants — INSURRECT!
“Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented w...
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "Through Mary’s Eyes: Enslavement, Marriage, and Black Women’s Subjectivity" by Alicia Prainito Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/thr...
Through Mary’s Eyes: Enslavement, Marriage, and Black Women’s Subjectivity — INSURRECT!
“In providing a compelling microhistorical lens into the intersections of enslavement, marriage, Christianity, and women’s subjectivity, the Mary-Hylas case exemplifies the layered experiences of Blac...
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend" by Sarah Pawlicki Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/a-t...
A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend — INSURRECT!
“A political administration dedicated to pretending there is no room for complexity or self-discovery in people’s experiences of gender must erase the stories providing evidence to the contrary.” ...
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📣 ICYMI: Insurrect! has an open call for a summer roundtable, organized by one of our graduate student editors. We are hoping to publish reflections from early career researchers, contingent scholars, and public humanists. We pay our editors and writers. 📣
Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies@insurrecthistory.bsky.social · last yr.Insurrect! is soliciting writers for Imagining Survival, which will examine the emotions of survival in our present through pre-1900 contexts in the Americas and Atlantic. We invite nuanced and accessible reflections on communal care, solidarity, and courage amidst violence. Submit by June 20th!
Insurrect! is soliciting writers for Imagining Survival, which will examine the emotions of survival in our present through pre-1900 contexts in the Americas and Atlantic. We invite nuanced and accessible reflections on communal care, solidarity, and courage amidst violence. Submit by June 20th!
Call for Writers: Imagining Survival — INSURRECT!
Submit by June 20th!
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "Who Tells Your Story? Philip Schuyler’s Legacy of Enslavement and Freedom Beyond Hamilton" by Alicia Prainito Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/who...
Who Tells Your Story? Philip Schuyler’s Legacy of Enslavement and Freedom Beyond Hamilton — INSURRECT!
“While Northern slavery does not get as much coverage in historical remembrance, it was still significant. Census records note that nearly 14% of New York's population were slaveholders in 1790, amoun...
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?" by Fallon Murphy Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/is-...
Is Repair Possible in the University Museum? — INSURRECT!
Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...
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🗃️ Friends, check out the @richardscenter.bsky.social CFA for the Mark & Ann Persun Visiting Scholar's Program, this cycle in Civil War Era political history. This fellowship is designed for mid-career scholars & does not require relocation. Apps due Feb 15, 2025. Details below; email or DM w/ Qs.
🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?" by Fallon Murphy Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/is-...
Is Repair Possible in the University Museum? — INSURRECT!
Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...
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🔥Hot off the press!🔥 Our latest from Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio (@ayendybonifacio) go read it over at Insurrect! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/s5i...
Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!
Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies@insurrecthistory.bsky.social · 2y agoApplications are open for our summer 2024 internship in partnership with the McNeil Center. More info here: www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/0um...
Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!
Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies@insurrecthistory.bsky.social · 2y agoApplications are open for our summer 2024 internship in partnership with the McNeil Center. More info here: www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/0um...
If anyone (especially Haitians and Haitians in diaspora) is considering writing any editorials concerning the current crisis that touch on the pre-1900 history of Haiti please consider submitting to @insurrecthistory.bsky.social - we pay our writers and editors.
Applications are open for our summer 2024 internship in partnership with the McNeil Center. More info here: www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/0um...
Call for Applications for the C. Dallett Hemphill Summer Insurrect! 2024 Internship — INSURRECT!
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring a summer internship with Insurrect! The stipend for the internship is $3,000. This internship is open ...
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Insurrect! is partnering with The McNeil Center to host an undergraduate summer intern this year! Applications are open until April 19, 2024. www.mceas.org/consortium/c...
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'I Always Dressed This Way:' Surfacing Nineteenth Century Trans History Through Mary Jones — INSUR...
Transness is a theory of change, of futurity. As trans people, we reject pre-written narratives to build more livable futures. Maybe this is why transsexuality is a recurring trope in science fictio...
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Refusing Berdache, Becoming Two-Spirit — INSURRECT!
In the summer of 1990, the spirit-name Two-Spirit was gifted to the growing community of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer Indigenous people of North America. In addition to giving a nam...
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Early American Disability Studies: Teaching (and Confronting) Internalized Ableism — INSURRECT!
How might college instructors introduce students to disabled people in an earlier America who expressed negative views about disability? How can we discuss ableism and internalized ableism in the cl...
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Check out our summer fellow, Thai-Catherine Matthews’ piece about Black Expats. www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/zk7...
Taking One’s Place: Affirmative Action and the Legacy of Academia’s Black Expats — INSUR...
Opponents of ‘Affirmative Action’ frame the policy as something that is given, defining it as an unfair advantage extended to the undeserving. For example, Roger Clegg, former president and gene...
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Check out this piece by Insurrect! Summer Fellow Alejandra Marquez www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/inj...
Injustice and Romance: Critical Reflection on Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona — INSURRECT!
Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona, first published in 1884, was initially met with mixed reviews by readers of the time. The novel is set after the Mexican-American War throughout the state of Californi...
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Check out our latest roundtable about mutual aid in the early Americas! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/vcz...
Mutual Aid in Early America: A Roundtable — INSURRECT!
This roundtable includes reflections from four scholars who presented on a panel, “Mutual Aid in Early America” at the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Biannual Meeting in June 2023, chaired ...
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Welcome Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies to BlueSky! We are an online publication devoted to anti-colonial frameworks and critiques of racial capitalism in Early American Studies. Learn more about us here: www.insurrecthistory.com
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