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Emma Amador

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🌳 Historian @ UConn — Book, The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Duke UP, *May 2025*) 🌿 Research Fellow @ CENTRO (2024-25) 🍃this is my personal account, doesn’t reflect the views of my employers🍃

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Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · Apr 16

My book is in print! Yay! 🎉 The official publication date is May 20th, but a few copies arrived today from @dukepress.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone that helped me tell these stories! I am posting a link yo the book and a 30% discount code below.

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · Aug 15

Major news! Forthcoming from @dukepress.bsky.social:

P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.

New book by Vanessa J. Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau! Exciting! Being published by a leading academic press! ¡Felicidades!

dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jun 1

We're celebrating new #CaribbeanStudies titles virtually for the Caribbean Studies Association conference! Browse highlights of new books and journal issues now on our website.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · May 23

Even if you're not joining us at #LASA25, you can save on all books and journal issues with code LASA25! Valid through July 4 when you order on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #LatinAmericanStudies
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The Center for Puerto Rican Studies @centropr.bsky.social · May 5

OPEN CALL: 2025-2026 Rooted + Relational Research Fellowship!

CENTRO is now accepting applications! This year’s theme, “Boricuas in Relation,” explores Puerto Rican connections across race, culture, & migration.

Apply by June 1, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET!
Learn more & apply: ow.ly/X4B350VMY7y

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 22

Thank you so much for your support! 💗

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 22

Thank you for your support!! 💗

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 22

Thank you for sharing! 💗

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you! 💗

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you!! Very excited to celebrate with you soon. 💗

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 20

Link with 30% off discount code: t.e2ma.net/message/1rwx...

email : Webview : New Book: The Politics of Care Work

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 20

I am excited to share it with you, please reach out if you want to hear more.

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 20

This project is truly a labor of LOVE and community, and I am so grateful to everyone who helped me write it and tell these stories. I hope the stories of the women at the center of the book will inspire and bring hope to those of us seeking a better world and future.

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 20

🌟Today is the official publication date of my first book, The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice, out with @dukepress.bsky.social . 30% off discount code and link below. The book is dedicated to my wonderful parents, partner, and 4-year-old daughter. 💗

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 17

It’s almost pub day! 🤩 Save 30% on #NewBook "The Politics of Care Work" by @emmaamador.bsky.social , which tells the story of Puerto Rican women’s involvement in political activism for social & economic justice in Puerto Rico and the United States. #WomensStudies #LatinxStudies
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Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 1

I am so excited to be counting down to the official publication date for my book “The Politics of Care Work” on 5/20. Check out the 30% off discount via @dukepress.bsky.social

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Apr 30

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Politics of Care Work" by @emmaamador.bsky.social , which tells the story of Puerto Rican women’s involvement in political activism for social & economic justice in Puerto Rico and the United States throughout the 20th century. #WomensStudies #LatinxStudies
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Cover of Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice by Emma Amador. The cover features a photograph of a middle-aged woman speaking on the phone. The photograph has been edited with bright, monochromatic tints: the woman has a pink hue, the background a turquoise one, and the phone has a yellow tint.

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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · May 12

Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
bit.ly/impossibleti...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · May 5

Great to see titles by @reluctantheologian.bsky.social,
@emmaamador.bsky.social & Eithne Luibhéid on @msmagazine.com's list of books to look for in May!
msmagazine.com/2025/05/02/b...

May 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us

Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. It’s finally springtime in the Midwest, the grass is turning green and flowers a...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · May 1

Check out "The Politics of Care Work" by @emmaamador.bsky.social , one of many great new titles we have out this May! #WomensStudies #History
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Cover of Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice by Emma Amador. The cover features a photograph of a middle-aged woman speaking on the phone. The photograph has been edited with bright, monochromatic tints: the woman has a pink hue, the background a turquoise one, and the phone has a yellow tint.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · May 1

Among our exciting new titles out this May is "The New Kingdom of Granada" by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. #History #LatinAmericanStudies
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Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 1

Congratulations! 🎉

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 1

*couldn’t*

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Apr 30

My next book. Out in September!
@harvardpress.bsky.social
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

John Doe Chinaman — Harvard University Press

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West—and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination ...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.bsky.social · May 1

Last night I watched the new #documentary Free for All: The Public Library, streaming on PBS as part of the Independent Lens series. Directed by Lucie Faulknor and Dawn Logsdon, it traces the history the public library in the US and looks at current challenges. www.pbs.org/independentl... #libraries

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Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 1

Thank you for the wonderful index!!! So grateful for your work on my book, it made all the difference. 💗🎉

Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · May 1

I am so excited to be counting down to the official publication date for my book “The Politics of Care Work” on 5/20. Check out the 30% off discount via @dukepress.bsky.social

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Apr 30

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Politics of Care Work" by @emmaamador.bsky.social , which tells the story of Puerto Rican women’s involvement in political activism for social & economic justice in Puerto Rico and the United States throughout the 20th century. #WomensStudies #LatinxStudies
buff.ly/wOe7TRi

Cover of Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice by Emma Amador. The cover features a photograph of a middle-aged woman speaking on the phone. The photograph has been edited with bright, monochromatic tints: the woman has a pink hue, the background a turquoise one, and the phone has a yellow tint.