Petal Samuel
@iounalao.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of AAAD at UNC-Chapel Hill | Caribbean anti-colonial thought, writing, politics; scholar of the sensorium; black feminist thought; Brooklyn born and raised.
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Honoring the memory of a literary giant who has become an ancestor Velma Pollard (born 1937). A Jamaican poet and fiction writer, among Pollard’s most noteworthy works are Shame Trees Don’t Grow Here (1991). She is the sister of Erna Brodber, another Jamaican literary treasure.
February 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Honoring the memory of a literary giant who has become an ancestor Velma Pollard (born 1937). A Jamaican poet and fiction writer, among Pollard’s most noteworthy works are Shame Trees Don’t Grow Here (1991). She is the sister of Erna Brodber, another Jamaican literary treasure.
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"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
November 21, 2024 at 7:01 PM
"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
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differences 35.2 is out now! — edited by Shoniqua Roach, "Inside the Black (W)hole" features essays from Moya Bailey, Sharon P. Holland, Amber Jamilla Musser, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
October 1, 2024 at 3:31 PM
differences 35.2 is out now! — edited by Shoniqua Roach, "Inside the Black (W)hole" features essays from Moya Bailey, Sharon P. Holland, Amber Jamilla Musser, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...