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Cover of Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art by Bimbola Akinbola. The cover features collage-style illustrations of fragmented, grayscale pencil sketches of multiple women's faces, stacked above a shopping cart bookended by two headless figures. A figure in the upper right with a leopard's head touches the human face of another figure.

In "Transatlantic Disbelonging," Bimbola Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies through the study of Nigerian diasporic women artists navigating disparate geographies, allegiances, and identities. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/JusuMms

As someone who earned UG degrees at IU in Rel. Studies & Comp. lit, this is devastating to see. IU religion is one of the top rated programs in the country. Many religion profs including me started at IU. Same with folklore. Also, this will harm the economy.

Authoritarianism hates education.

Cover of When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa by Christopher T. Nelson. The cover features the artwork Red Mask by Kinoshita Tomio. The piece depicts a crowd of stylized human faces in a reddish-brown hue. The faces, or masks, are characterized by intricate line art, with their planes and minimalistic features formed by dozens of concentric lines at varying distances. Most of the masks face the viewer directly, while a few are turned to an angle. The figures have elongated necks.

We have exciting new titles out this July, including "When the Bones Speak" by Christopher T. Nelson. Check them out! #AsianStudies #Anthropology
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Fellowships The Lewis Center for the Arts, in collaboration with other University departments, offers two artist fellowship opportunities. Both are designed to support artists, in all artistic disciplines, who de...

Applications Now Being Accepted for Two Artist Fellowship Programs at Princeton University
Artists in all disciplines are invited to apply for Princeton Arts Fellowships and Hodder Fellowships – deadline September 9.

📍 DC

Cover of Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World by Danilyn Rutherford. Features an image of the author and her daughter treated with a colorful gradient, giving it a blueish tone. The beach and a house are visible in the background.

In her new memoir "Beautiful Mystery," @danilynrutherford.bsky.social‬ tells the story of her life with her daughter Millie, who cannot communicate verbally, which has taught her that we do not need to understand someone to love them. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/445b3n8

The latest issue of, "Transforming Anthropology" is available now! www.transforminganthropology.org/current-issue

For a breather today if you need.

#nokings

How Dr. Moya Bailey Stays Centered in Liberation YouTube video by L: Empress of Ease

Clearing space for #BlackWomen today, I’m reminded of the strength I found in Quirky Black Girls. We need that spirit now more than ever. Check out this interview with Moya Bailey & L’erin Asantewaa of SisterFire on holding space for counternarratives.

youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...

University of Pennsylvania Press to Publish a New Academic Journal: Global Black Thought | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Launched by the African American Intellectual History Society, Global Black Thought will feature essays on Black ideas, theories, and intellectuals from authors in a wide-range of history and the soci...

Please check out the new Journal of the African American Intellectual History Society, *Global Black Thought*!

jbhe.com/2025/06/univ...

Cover of Radical History Review, Issue 152 (May 2025). The top section features the journal’s title in blue and white text against a dark background. Below is a photo of the statue Le Marron Inconnu in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with the white domed National Palace in the background and a mountainous landscape beyond. The statue is adorned with flowers. In the lower section, yellow text reads: “Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage.”

"Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage," a special issue of Radical History Review, is now available.

View the TOC and read the editors' introduction and "The Political Lives of Haiti's Marron Inconnu," both made freely available: buff.ly/LX4w4ac

Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and busy but also like to learn about new books! I’m claiming to have made up this game, but if you’ve ever showed up for class wit...

senior editor @mpgphd.bsky.social talks underworlding and Zora Neale Hurston with the brilliant @ahmadgreene.com in the latest edition of Phoning It In!

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So great to read @mpgphd.bsky.social's conversation with @ahmadgreene.com about his new book, *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which is a game-changer. #AfAmReligion

Underworld Work A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.   When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orl...

Congratulations to @xroadproj.bsky.social research fellow @ahmadgreene.com on *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which will be published by the University of Chicago Press on May 6.

The book is shipping now.

If you missed the fantastic @xroadproj.bsky.social webinar on "Materiality and Africana Religions," organized by @antheabutler.bsky.social, you can watch the recording in the project's media library:

crossroads.princeton.edu/events/cross...

Congrats to @judithweisenfeld.com on the publication of Black Religion in the Madhouse!
Earlier this month we had a conversation with Judith and other leading scholars, find the conversation on many different platforms and check out some resources for learning/teaching these interesting topics!

Tomorrow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Upstate fam—come through for a book talk and a T&T election debrief fresh from today’s polls.

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

Congratulations!!

we love @mpgphd.bsky.social and yvonne chireau!!

Check out @xroadproj.bsky.social Media
and Technology Consultant @mpgphd.bsky.social’s conversation with Crossroads Fellow Yvonne Chireau about *Sinners.*

Really looking forward to this!

Burials begin as the search ends for victims in the Dominican nightclub collapse that killed 221 The number of dead in a roof collapse at an iconic nightclub in the Dominican Republic surged to 218, an official said.

Spare a thought (& a prayer, if that's your jam) for those who lost their lives- and those who grieve them apnews.com/article/domi...

The Museum of African American History in Boston is losing federal funding. You can help. (Or find something local). I know we can't save everything that gets defunded. This is the one I've supported today.

I've been off the socials so just hearing. Sorry for the injury and sending healing energies.

Join us next Thursday, April 10th at 3pm for our next episode of Religion &! Religion & The Madhouse featuring Judith Weisenfeld will explore her new book, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake (NYU Press, 2025).
Register: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...

Duke sale extended one more day ❤️💐💐

Book cover of ‘Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation, by Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Diaz, Nadia Ayala Kisukidi, and Rinaldo Walcott, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe

Receiving this book made my day

‘Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation, by Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Diaz, Nadia Ayala Kisukidi, and Rinaldo Walcott, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe @dukepress.bsky.social

All the flowers 💐💐💐 @hystericalblkns.bsky.social @blacklikewho.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Materiality and Religion in Africana Religions- Informed Pasts , New Perspectives. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t... Join the Crossroads Project for a discussion from leading scholars in Africana Religious traditions and Materiality. What have we done, what should we be doing, and what is the future of the field? Ch...

Join us for a Webinar on *Materiality and Religion in Africana Religions: Informed Pasts, New Perspectives*

With Tracey Hucks, Henry Drewal, Rhon Manigault-Bryant, and
Elizabeth Pérez

Friday, April 4, 2025 @ 1:30pm ET

In addition to the film screening on April 3, there will be a symposium on Friday, April 4 on *Material Religion in the African Diaspora* at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia.

You can see the schedule and register for the symposium and/or the webinar here:
crossroads.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Coming Fall 2025 from @fordhampress.bsky.social Co-edited with the amazing @clukasik.bsky.social. It’s also lovely to see another one of my photos grace the cover of a FUP book. 🎉