SONOROUS PRESENT is here! Four years in-the-making. It chronicles a universe of family stories, of borders, of trauma, of loss, of migration through sound, lyric, poetry, theory, verse, ethnography, & rhythm. Thank you for listening. LINKS IN BIO open.spotify.com/album/2yjE3O9E…

No one can seriously talk about the evils of racism again if they are not prepared to talk about what the Israelis and Americans have done to Palestinians. This has been clear since 2001 when the US walked out of the World Conference Against Racism in deference to Israel.

Hey! Come check out this team project I’m working on! Academic articles rewritten in everyday language in collaboration with high school student! COME SEE THE RESULTS SO FAR!

Western liberals do not care about women's liberation in the global South. Make no mistake, they would gladly use that image of the Iranian woman defying the dress code to justify invading Iran and proceeding to massacre and immiserate millions of women.

Just published! Ten more essays on Palestine and what Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza demands of us all — read Anthropology in a Time of Genocide now, here: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

You can see the first set of eight urgent essays here, with an introduction by Amahl Bishara and Kamala Visweswaran: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

“If you are a party to the immiseration and the evisceration of life in Palestine, people in this country cannot be free, because this is part of creating a new baseline for human suffering.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at Palestine Festival of Literature today.

The bill to kill non-profits -- the most dangerous piece of domestic terrorism legislation since the PATRIOT Act -- is back on the House agenda for next week. I wrote about it for Spencer Ackerman's most excellent newsletter forever-wars.com/the-most-dange…

NEW ARTICLE! The one I’ve been waiting for!!!! See rewritten/transposed “undoing appropriateness” article on DLP website now!! I’m like stupidly excited about this one… gonna immediately use as teaching resource for undergrads/high schoolers! Jonathan Rosa and @nelsonlflores

NEW ARTICLE RELEASE! "Undoing Appropriateness" by Flores and Rosa (2015) is now available for both high school and undergrad readers! Now this crucial article can be shared to 1000's of new readers like never before! DIRECT LINK: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/langu…

Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago). ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 UChicagoPress press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

"The tragedy of Gaza is fundamentally a moral crisis of a global system entrenching Israeli impunity where humanitarianism has become a substitute for politics & accountability." Sa'ed Atshan in "Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba & Return." culanth.org/fieldsights/pa…

HERE WE GO! For your nerdy pleasure: a blog post on BATGIRL using a complicated idea we language nerds like to talk about: languagelessness (Jonathan Rosa 2016). READ: campanthropology.org

On this day in 1917, Congress passed an Immigration Act that banned racial groups deemed "undesirable" from entering the U.S., and primarily barred Asian people. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Official English will have life and death consequences. This is not an exaggeration. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Also, now this piece is out, I can finally publically say that the Editor-in-Chief of Time Magazine personally BLOCKED this piece in Feb, right after Musk's ascent to DOGE, despite MONTHS of edit/legal review rounds. Shame on Sam Jacobs TIME! slate.com/news-and-polit…

Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻 en el New York Times: "The latest islandwide blackout is not just a technical failure; it is the most recent sign that Puerto Rico’s colonial bargain has collapsed". Recomiendo enfáticamente este apasionado texto nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opi…

I've completed my four-part The Dig series w Aziz Rana reexamining the entirety of US history through the politics of Americanism and constitutional fetish. This episode traces the great unraveling of the American empire from the 1970s to our present MAGA 2.0 moment. Link 👇

I bet a lot of people don't know that the US bombed Somalia 42 times so far this year