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
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This one does some of the work Bad Bunny does but for French colonialism!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k80...
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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....
Three immediate takeaways:
1) "Follow the footnotes." Essential to his process as a writer and thinker. 🤩
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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....
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
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"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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This is why we need to be telling our stories.
Reposted by Anna O. Law, Katharine Hayhoe, Scott L. Greer , and 17 more Anna O. Law, Katharine Hayhoe, Scott L. Greer, Jean Burgess, Catherine Baker, Lesley A. Hall, Laurent Dubois, Rebecca Tushnet, Silvia Secchi, Holger Nehring, Sara M. Butler, Layna Mosley, Judith Beyer, Lisa Diedrich, Richard M. Carpiano, Klaus Oschema, David S. Tanenhaus, Alexandre Klein, Magda Teter, Karin Wulf
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America became Americas.
(Just for starters on what we will need to talk about from Bad Bunny's show!)
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?
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r