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

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

History 23%
Philosophy 18%
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

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And now the Sugar Bowl (2026).
Great politics should look like a party you want to join

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

They got confused by all the Spanish & references to colonialism?
lmao how did it get worse in the second half
Pats offensive line looking like the US' checks and balances

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lmao how did it get worse in the second half
Pats offensive line looking like the US' checks and balances
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

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

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This part, this set
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
Bad Bunny just made Pan-Americanism cool again!
In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference

www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...
Why It's So Hard To Turn The Lights Back On In Puerto Rico
Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, almost 80 percent of the territory is still without power. While nobody expected a quick…
www.wgbh.org

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ARE WE GETTING ENERGY POLICY COMMENTARY IN THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW????
TELL EM ABOUT THE POWER GRID BENITO

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Pats offensive line looking like the US' checks and balances

Soon, grasshopper, soon!
when will I learn to only post extremely obscure remarks that inspire no one to repost & attract no new readers

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when will I learn to only post extremely obscure remarks that inspire no one to repost & attract no new readers
Marc Bloch to be inducted into French Panthéon. 🗃️

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Through this #SuperBowl weekend, you can get the e-book edition of "P FKN R" by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau for $9.99 or less! Links to retailers are on our site. #BadBunny
buff.ly/c3O101k

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J’ai le plaisir de vous présenter mon podcast En Bonne Voix qui explore le pouvoir de la parole, la force des mots et l’influence des voix. Entre verbe et style, j’y reçois des personnalités dont la voix est une arme, une identité, un art.
Dispo sur toutes les plateformes (1/2)
The uniforms may have had to remove Louverture, but the ambassador made sure they took his picture in front of Jean-Jacques Dessalines 🫡
no political symbolism at the competition between nation states and flags that we argue instills positive values and promotes a specific form of peaceful internationalism, all sponsored by large corporations whose logos and advertising are visible throughout

Michel-Rolph Trouillot would like to have a word.
The image of Toussaint Louverture had to be removed because the Olympic committee considered it a "political statement"??

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
‘Symbol of the Haitian spirit’: Haiti’s Winter Olympic uniform inspired by history
Haiti’s Winter Olympic uniform is a statement of history and perseverance.
www.miamiherald.com
Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
Essay: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages
Historian Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo hopes Bad Bunny's halftime show will combat "acute ignorance" about Puerto Rico and its ongoing entanglement with the United States.
www.latimes.com