José Juan Pérez Meléndez
@jjperdez.bsky.social
Historian | Mobility Infrastructures | 19th-Century Worlds | Revolutions and Post-independences | Brazil
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
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One day I will write a lengthy essay on the excruciating psychological pain the absurd practice of American leaf-blowing bestows upon me.
October 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One day I will write a lengthy essay on the excruciating psychological pain the absurd practice of American leaf-blowing bestows upon me.
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US President Trump says several Middle East allies have told him they’d “welcome the opportunity…to go into Gaza with a heavy force and ‘straighten out Hamas’” if the group violates the ceasefire aje.io/wllk1u
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
US President Trump says several Middle East allies have told him they’d “welcome the opportunity…to go into Gaza with a heavy force and ‘straighten out Hamas’” if the group violates the ceasefire aje.io/wllk1u
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Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
Launching my new seminar on Saint-Domingue and the world of the Haitian Revolution—looking fwd to discussing excellent works, esp. new books by Marlene Daut, @juliagaffield.bsky.social, and @malickghachem.bsky.social.
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Launching my new seminar on Saint-Domingue and the world of the Haitian Revolution—looking fwd to discussing excellent works, esp. new books by Marlene Daut, @juliagaffield.bsky.social, and @malickghachem.bsky.social.
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Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
www.propublica.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
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Israeli forces have launched a new wave of attacks on Gaza, killing at least 83 Palestinians, including 19 near al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals, the besieged enclave’s last functioning medical facilities aje.io/uwsj7b
September 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Israeli forces have launched a new wave of attacks on Gaza, killing at least 83 Palestinians, including 19 near al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals, the besieged enclave’s last functioning medical facilities aje.io/uwsj7b
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Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.
Dehumanisation: How Israel is able to commit its genocide in Gaza
Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.
bit.ly
September 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, say analysts.
My thanks also to Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall) for a keen and generous review of Peopling for Profit that appeared earlier in @tamquarterly.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1017/tam.....
For open access to the book:
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/tam.....
For open access to the book:
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My thanks also to Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall) for a keen and generous review of Peopling for Profit that appeared earlier in @tamquarterly.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1017/tam.....
For open access to the book:
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/tam.....
For open access to the book:
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
+I'm w/@thiagokrause.bsky.social re: the problem w/historical analogies: Itaboraí=slave trafficker ensconced in Brazilian political and banking institutions & going after liberal nemeses protesting conservative election rigging. Not a good normative example. www.opodereaescravidao.com/banco-de-dados
September 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
+I'm w/@thiagokrause.bsky.social re: the problem w/historical analogies: Itaboraí=slave trafficker ensconced in Brazilian political and banking institutions & going after liberal nemeses protesting conservative election rigging. Not a good normative example. www.opodereaescravidao.com/banco-de-dados
Good take by @ceclynch.bsky.social on the "reactionary offensive" & amnesty as a form of erasure. But must recall that "liberal democracy" hasn't worked for the growing numbers of non-unionized and gig workers filling the ranks of "reactionary populism"–so we must not idealize it either.
Brazil must read of the weekend, by @ceclynch.bsky.social
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September 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Good take by @ceclynch.bsky.social on the "reactionary offensive" & amnesty as a form of erasure. But must recall that "liberal democracy" hasn't worked for the growing numbers of non-unionized and gig workers filling the ranks of "reactionary populism"–so we must not idealize it either.
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Anyway, here's an email I sent @UofCalifornia President Milliken and @UCBerkeley Chancellor Lyons, on their disgraceful decision to prematurely forward names to DOE for political harassment.
UC faculty, staff, students *systemwide* are in peril. Terrible, self-defeating choice.
UC faculty, staff, students *systemwide* are in peril. Terrible, self-defeating choice.
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Anyway, here's an email I sent @UofCalifornia President Milliken and @UCBerkeley Chancellor Lyons, on their disgraceful decision to prematurely forward names to DOE for political harassment.
UC faculty, staff, students *systemwide* are in peril. Terrible, self-defeating choice.
UC faculty, staff, students *systemwide* are in peril. Terrible, self-defeating choice.
Where is the doleful mourning of the punditry? In terms of magnitude, any which way they look at this, it exceeds any single tragedy by exactly thousands of levels.
Israeli forces have intensified bombardment in Gaza City, destroying three residential blocks and killing at least 53 Palestinians, as families forcibly flee ahead of new evacuation orders aje.io/jq6a8m
September 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Where is the doleful mourning of the punditry? In terms of magnitude, any which way they look at this, it exceeds any single tragedy by exactly thousands of levels.
Thank you to Jeffrey Lesser @Emory for his review in the latest American Historical Review (academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...) –very meaningful for me that a scholar of Brazil I so respect shares his generous take on Peopling for Profit (now open access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...).
José Juan Pérez Meléndez. Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil: Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization.
In 1974, the Brazilian federal government issued a postage stamp entitled “Migratory Streams.” The stamp, part of a larger set hailing diversity by using o
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September 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thank you to Jeffrey Lesser @Emory for his review in the latest American Historical Review (academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...) –very meaningful for me that a scholar of Brazil I so respect shares his generous take on Peopling for Profit (now open access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...).
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For almost two centuries, the higher ed community has recognized that the presence of guns on campus inhibits the “practice of a responsible & critical mind.”
Guns rob faculty of the ability to ensure that the classroom remains the true & open marketplace of ideas at the core of academic freedom.
Guns rob faculty of the ability to ensure that the classroom remains the true & open marketplace of ideas at the core of academic freedom.
Legal Watch: Academic Freedom and Guns on Campus
The AAUP's recent joint amicus brief opposing the mandate that guns be permitted in college classrooms in Texas highlights a growing threat to faculty and academic freedom.
www.aaup.org
September 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
For almost two centuries, the higher ed community has recognized that the presence of guns on campus inhibits the “practice of a responsible & critical mind.”
Guns rob faculty of the ability to ensure that the classroom remains the true & open marketplace of ideas at the core of academic freedom.
Guns rob faculty of the ability to ensure that the classroom remains the true & open marketplace of ideas at the core of academic freedom.
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Peopling for Profit in now OPEN ACCESS! Many thanks to my editor @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org for making this happen.
Happy to report that @jjperdez.bsky.social 's Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil is now available as an Open Access publication through @universitypress.cambridge.org 's Flip it Open initiative:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
www.cambridge.org
September 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Peopling for Profit in now OPEN ACCESS! Many thanks to my editor @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org for making this happen.
Another case of "business goes on as usual." Not in our name. Skip OAK until it aligns with Oaklanders' efforts to end this genocide. More links below.
Tell the Port of Oakland, the overseeing body of the Oakland Airport, that they must stop their complicity in the genocide in Gaza: buff.ly/PSzatjO
September 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Another case of "business goes on as usual." Not in our name. Skip OAK until it aligns with Oaklanders' efforts to end this genocide. More links below.
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¡Ya salió el Vol. 5, Núm. 1 de Categoría Cinco!
El nuevo número, "Polémicas de la Izquierda en Puerto Rico", explora las tensiones y debates actuales en la izquierda puertorriqueña, su evolución y los desafíos políticos y sociales contemporáneos.
Lee el número completo aquí: categoria5.org
El nuevo número, "Polémicas de la Izquierda en Puerto Rico", explora las tensiones y debates actuales en la izquierda puertorriqueña, su evolución y los desafíos políticos y sociales contemporáneos.
Lee el número completo aquí: categoria5.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
¡Ya salió el Vol. 5, Núm. 1 de Categoría Cinco!
El nuevo número, "Polémicas de la Izquierda en Puerto Rico", explora las tensiones y debates actuales en la izquierda puertorriqueña, su evolución y los desafíos políticos y sociales contemporáneos.
Lee el número completo aquí: categoria5.org
El nuevo número, "Polémicas de la Izquierda en Puerto Rico", explora las tensiones y debates actuales en la izquierda puertorriqueña, su evolución y los desafíos políticos y sociales contemporáneos.
Lee el número completo aquí: categoria5.org
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É ruim esse tom celebratório. A lei que proibiu o tráfico é de 1831. Para falar em reparação, melhor seria refletir sobre a Lei Eusébio como uma grande anistia aos traficantes e senhores de escravizados que desembarcaram ilegalmente cerca 800 mil escravizados entre 1831 e 50.
Em 4 de setembro de 1850, foi sancionada a lei que proibiu o tráfico transatlântico de pessoas escravizadas.
Ela foi proposta pelo então Ministro da Justiça, Eusébio de Queiróz, que lutou para acabar com essa violação dos direitos humanos.
Ela foi proposta pelo então Ministro da Justiça, Eusébio de Queiróz, que lutou para acabar com essa violação dos direitos humanos.
September 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
É ruim esse tom celebratório. A lei que proibiu o tráfico é de 1831. Para falar em reparação, melhor seria refletir sobre a Lei Eusébio como uma grande anistia aos traficantes e senhores de escravizados que desembarcaram ilegalmente cerca 800 mil escravizados entre 1831 e 50.
Amanhã, dia 8 de julho, de manhã: conversa com colegas da UNIRIO e com quem queira juntar-se ao diálogo. Convite extensivo a todes!
July 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Amanhã, dia 8 de julho, de manhã: conversa com colegas da UNIRIO e com quem queira juntar-se ao diálogo. Convite extensivo a todes!
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Resenha: Do livro "Peopling for profit in Imperial Brazil: directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization", por Marina Simões Galvanese. Universidad Estatal Paulista.
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#MundosdoTrabalho
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#MundosdoTrabalho
June 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Resenha: Do livro "Peopling for profit in Imperial Brazil: directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization", por Marina Simões Galvanese. Universidad Estatal Paulista.
periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mu...
#MundosdoTrabalho
periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mu...
#MundosdoTrabalho
A historiadora Marina Simões Galvanese proverá comentário baseado na sua perspicaz resenha no último número da revista de @mundosdotrabalho.bsky.social de Peopling for Profit (www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...) —pela qual fico muito agradecido.
June 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A historiadora Marina Simões Galvanese proverá comentário baseado na sua perspicaz resenha no último número da revista de @mundosdotrabalho.bsky.social de Peopling for Profit (www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...) —pela qual fico muito agradecido.
