Ada Ferrer
@aditaferrer.bsky.social
Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.
My big news: coming May 19 from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social the book I always knew I would have to write. More info and pre-order links here:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Keeper...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Keeper...
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My big news: coming May 19 from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social the book I always knew I would have to write. More info and pre-order links here:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Keeper...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Keeper...
#LatinoHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth.
He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
#LatinoHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth.
He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
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My home Internet went kersplat, and I raced to the library for its wifi and ample table outlets for my work laptop. I worked for five hours straight.
LIBRARIES.
They have been there for me all my life.
LIBRARIES.
They have been there for me all my life.
August 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My home Internet went kersplat, and I raced to the library for its wifi and ample table outlets for my work laptop. I worked for five hours straight.
LIBRARIES.
They have been there for me all my life.
LIBRARIES.
They have been there for me all my life.
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Navajo Code Talkers erased from Pentagon records. Tribal flags stripped from public buildings. Reports on missing Indigenous women deleted. Under Project 2025, the U.S. is reclassifying Native sovereignty as “DEI”—a calculated strategy to enable cultural erasure.
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Erasing History: Project 2025's Vision for Tribal Nations
The implementation of Project 2025 isn’t just reshaping policy—it’s erasing history. From the Pentagon’s removal of Navajo Code Talkers to the deletion of federal reports on missing Indigenous women, ...
globalextremism.org
April 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Navajo Code Talkers erased from Pentagon records. Tribal flags stripped from public buildings. Reports on missing Indigenous women deleted. Under Project 2025, the U.S. is reclassifying Native sovereignty as “DEI”—a calculated strategy to enable cultural erasure.
Read more:
Read more:
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I'm grateful to Roberto Sirvent of @blackagendareport.bsky.social for interviewing me about *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*
BAR Book Forum: Judith Weisenfeld’s Book, “Black Religion in the Madhouse” | Black Agenda Report
This week’s featured author is Judith Weisenfeld. Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Her book is Black Religion in the Mad...
blackagendareport.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I'm grateful to Roberto Sirvent of @blackagendareport.bsky.social for interviewing me about *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*
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New Jersey is just running circles around everybody this week. Get with it, rest of America.
Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.
In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New Jersey is just running circles around everybody this week. Get with it, rest of America.
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Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Lecture: “Cuba: The Scales of History” with @aditaferrer.bsky.social. Amphitheater 2, General Studies, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, on April 3, 2025, at 2:30pm (EST).
repeatingislands.com/2025/03/31/g...
repeatingislands.com/2025/03/31/g...
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Lecture: “Cuba: The Scales of History” with @aditaferrer.bsky.social. Amphitheater 2, General Studies, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, on April 3, 2025, at 2:30pm (EST).
repeatingislands.com/2025/03/31/g...
repeatingislands.com/2025/03/31/g...
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“I am tethered to the generations before me by ambiguous and even unspoken beginnings—expressed in skin too light, features too fine, hair too limp. I am the heir of misunderstanding, misapprehension, and mistaken identity. Who do I think I am? To begin, I am a daughter of Nancy.”
— Martha Jones
— Martha Jones
March 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“I am tethered to the generations before me by ambiguous and even unspoken beginnings—expressed in skin too light, features too fine, hair too limp. I am the heir of misunderstanding, misapprehension, and mistaken identity. Who do I think I am? To begin, I am a daughter of Nancy.”
— Martha Jones
— Martha Jones
And again. With a promise to self not to check before bed.
March 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
And again. With a promise to self not to check before bed.
Giving this a try.
November 29, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Giving this a try.