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We live now in a time in which more and more people vouch for building up walls and barriers to deter the movement of people as it is seen with suspicion; as if mobility were the cause of all contemporary problems, a harmful activity that would break up societies and transform them away from their […]
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How did Indigenous people in the New World understand their encounters with Europeans during the colonial era? This question is at the centre of ongoing debates among anthropologists and historians and its answers vary as much as the differences between the groups involved in these historical encounters. The topic can be expanded to include questions […]
Read MoreWhen I tell anyone what I study, people (even sometimes other academics) think it’s weird, distasteful, or just arcane. If the Indigenous population of the Americas is often seen as an “other,” then Aztecs are the other of the other. In seeking to dispel that notion, I wrote A Concise History of the Aztecs to […]
Read MoreLiterate white men of European descent were the most common readers in the past. At least that seems to be the case if we look at the history of books and reading. Indeed, these men wrote, published, and read plenty of books, as a large body of scholarship has shown for Europe – the cradle […]
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On October 8, 1565, a carrack commanded by the young captain Juan de Salcedo and piloted by the Augustinian friar Andrés de Urdaneta entered the port of Acapulco in New Spain. It was the first time that a Spanish ship successfully completed the long eastbound journey between the Asian and American continents. The discovery of […]
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Scholars have long argued that slavery deprived men and women of African descent of sovereignty and that the violence it visited daily on their bodies and psyche closed all possibilities of joy. Indeed, in the summer of 2020, it was hard to think about Black sovereignty and joy as I wrapped up the book. But […]
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On May 1, 2006 approximately three-fourths of a million unauthorized immigrants across America courageously absented themselves from their jobs to participate in “The Day without Immigrants,” to convince owners of businesses and members of Congress how important immigrants were to the economy. Congress at the time was deliberating legislation to determine whether to legalize or […]
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How and why did the Haitian Revolution happen? How did enslaved people from varying backgrounds come together to orchestrate the most radical political event of the modern era – the only revolt of enslaved people to abolish slavery, overturn colonialism, and create the first free and independent Black nation in the Americas? These and other […]
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