Laurent Dubois

@soccerpolitics.bsky.social

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Historian (Avengers of the New World/ The Banjo/ The Language of the Game/ Freedom Roots) & Musician (Traversées)

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Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. A specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world who studies the Caribbean, North America, and France, Dubois joined the University of Virginia in January 2021, and will also serve as the Democracy Initiative’s Director for Academic Affairs. In this role, Dubois will spearhead the Democracy Initiative’s research and pedagogical missions and will serve as the director and lead research convener of the John L. Nau III History and Principles of Democracy Lab—the permanent core lab of the Initiative which will operate as the connecting hub for the entire project. His studies have focused on Haiti. .. more

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Chelsea Stieber @chelseastieber.bsky.social · 12h

This panel will follow Bad Bunny time keeping protocols

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Post a banger not in English.

This one does some of the work Bad Bunny does but for French colonialism!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k80...

Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 1d

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, so aside from my jacked-on-cold-medicine-coughing collapse there at the end...what a rich conversation w the generous @jamellebouie.net that I wish could have been twice as long.

Three immediate takeaways:

1) "Follow the footnotes." Essential to his process as a writer and thinker. 🤩

John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 1d

TODAY!

Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.

For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!

Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....

The image shows a photo of Jamelle Bouie and features a background photo of a bookshelf. The text outlines the title, date and time of the talk.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

True story! Has there been a better year to talk about history & journalism? A year long project that begins this evening with @jamellebouie.net. Will I get to even half the questions I want to ask?! Unlikely!

Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️

John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 1d

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1d

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

The Place of Sugar in Modern History

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Petra and Vanessa are back today with a guide to last night's show in @rollingstone.com! Read this, then grab their book from @dukepress.bsky.social!

"But Bad Bunny always finds a way to get many complex messages in his performances, just as he does with his songs."

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 1d

My book,The Sweet Taste of Empire focuses on Anglo Caribbean, but shows the importance of sugar to the global economy & the racial order in the West. Bad Bunny turns the white mastery embedded in sugar/slave complex on its head: highlighting vibrant, resilient culture that emerged from history

Singer Bad Bunny dressed in a cream colored outfit standing on a cream colored pickup truck surrounded by dancers in tan outfits against a backdrop of sugar cane.

A tan book cover that says

THE
SWEET TASTE OF
EMPIRE
in green letters
and
SUGAR, MASTERY, AND PLEASURE IN THE ANGLO CARIBBEAN

KIM F. HALL
in brown letters

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 1d

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

news.wisc.edu

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

And now the Sugar Bowl (2026).

Bad bunny performing at the superbowl halftime show with the field transformed into a sugar cane plantation.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Great politics should look like a party you want to join

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

I love this

WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 1d

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

They got confused by all the Spanish & references to colonialism?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

lmao how did it get worse in the second half

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

Pats offensive line looking like the US' checks and balances

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

lmao how did it get worse in the second half

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

Pats offensive line looking like the US' checks and balances

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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 1d

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

The football field became a cane field.

America became Americas.

(Just for starters on what we will need to talk about from Bad Bunny's show!)

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure it wasn’t actually Liam. But it was a clear homage.

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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 2d

This part, this set

#superbowl Bad Bunny waves flag of Puerto Rico in ‘field’ set, with linemen choreographed on phone poles

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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album

news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

news.wisc.edu

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous