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A Nuyorican, I teach theology and religious studies at St. John’s University, NY. @StJohnsU. 🇵🇷

Joined February 2009
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New (November 2026): Virtually Latinx: Identities in the Age of Social Media - By Urayoán Noel | University of Texas Press | More information can be found here: utpress.utexas.edu/978147733…
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New (October 2026): Archipelagoes of Longing: Puerto Ricans, Resistance, and Memory - By Nicolás Ramos Flores | SUNY Press | More information can be found here: sunypress.edu/Books/A/Archip…
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Exciting news! Making Space for Empire: Colonial Elites, Whiteness, and the Planning of Modern Puerto Rico by Joaquin Villanueva, forthcoming from @DukePress in 2027. Documents how white elites in Puerto Rico & the US collaborate to produce landscapes. dukeupress.edu/making-space-…
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Post Disaster Futures: Ruin Repair and Decolonial Imagination, edited by @yarimarbonilla and @IsabelTamargo. Forthcoming: @haymarketbooks An interdisciplinary exploration of how Puerto Ricans are redefining futurity in defiance of imperial violence and infrastructural collapse.
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Hispanic Heritage Month begins today! In celebration, we're highlighting our great new titles in Chicanx and Latinx studies on our blog today: buff.ly/QSY7Ce9
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Forthcoming (December 2026): I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea - By David R. Anderson | University of Chicago Press | More information can be found here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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Boone ave murals today in the #bronx I’m finishing painting at 174th & Boone ave pull up!!!! > limited edition psychedelic graffiti coloring comic, 3D original character art, original illustrations & paintings, & a whole lotta style!!! Pull up! #Churrp @RappinMaxRobot @riverarc
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Call for Proposals: We are seeking book proposals for our new series, T&T Clark Short Introductions to Engaged Catholicism. We're looking for accessible volumes on contemporary moral theology. Email Kristin Heyer ([email protected]) or Richard Brown ([email protected]).
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Forthcoming (December 2026): Ciguapa Unbound: AfroLatinx Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation - By Omaris Z. Zamora | NYU Press | More information can be found here: nyupress.org/9781479845392/c…
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If You Missed It The First Time (February 2022): The Young Lords: A Radical History - By Johanna Fernández (RIP) | University of North Carolina Press | More information can be found here: uncpress.org/9781469669328/t…
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New book coming this November!
🚨 New Book 🚨 Friends, @ElProfeBarba and I are thrilled to share the publication of “Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement” coming this November from @NYUpress !
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New (March 2026): Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle - By Ellen McLarney | Columbia University Press | More information can be found here: cup.columbia.edu/book/black-…
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Tonight was a very bad night.
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The President of the United States is in court right now to STOP Americans in need from getting food assistance. ...but just gave Argentina $40 BILLION to Argentina. $40 BILLION TO ARGENTINA.
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