assistant prof @uchicago. black study. caribbean anthro. yaadie. anarcho-zesser. author of the petro-state masquerade ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 http://bit.ly/3z2Geyk. yankees. nets. jets. chelsea fc.
New issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social out now!
transformanthroOur Spring 2026 Issue is out now! With articles on Black geographies and ecological care, educational reform, institutional exclusion, and residential segregation, this issue moves across sites of US Empire while insisting on unsettling dominant spatial orders and conjuring geographies of our own.
New book forum on The Petro-state Masquerade is out in the latest issue of @smallaxeproject.bsky.social. Grateful for the careful, critical engagement with my book by my dear colleagues Brent Crosson and Chelsea Schields. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...
Small Axe ProjectSX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉 All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger
On Dimanche Gras, I wrote about how imperialism in the Caribbean feels from Trinidad’s North Coast. Blessings to the Joseph and Samaroo families and the people of Las Cuevas. portolan-journal.org?post=a-carib...
Portolancargo.siteportolan-journal.orgAnthony BallasNew from Portolan: "A Caribbean Crucifixion: The Odyssey of Rishi & Charpo" by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social Link below
When I wrote this article on CLR James’s coverage of a radiation controversy at the US base in Trinidad, I couldn’t imagine that we’d find ourselves in another this week. Links below to my essays in Small Axe and Clash! read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar... medium.com/clash-voices...
Guardians Of The SkyThe U.S AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR radar system is now operational at ANR Robinson International Airport in Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. Credits: Pearce Robinson (H/T #usa #usanews #news #us #america #unitedstates
Our new issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social is out! Featuring an editorial by me and Christen Smith, unpublished manuscripts and translations from Marlene Cunha, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Ellen Irene Diggs, and articles by Pyar Seth and Nala Williams. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
Transforming Anthropology | Vol 33, No 2www.journals.uchicago.edutransformanthroOur latest issue on the “Archives of Black Anthropology” is now available online! We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.
An open-access download of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy is now available. This new edition features an introduction by yours truly and an afterword by Schuyler Esprit. haubooks.org/wp-content/u...
Ryan Cecil JobsonAt long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Perfect timing if you’re still looking for a (digital) copy of my book. 🙏🏽
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The spring issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social —and debut issue with my coeditor Christen Smith—is out! Read for articles on Black geographies, state violence in Haiti/Quisqeya, and queer hip hop genealogies. Thanks to Madjeen Isaac for the cover art! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
“Foenem on that Popemobile”
Adia Bentonif South Side was still on the air, there would need to be a pope episode
My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...
Friday!
Larry La FountainConversation on @smallaxeproject.bsky.social Keywords project: patería, makoumé, kambrada, friend & family. With @doctorjc.bsky.social, Krystal Ghisyawan, @julianisenia.bsky.social, @larrylafountain.bsky.social, @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social & Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...
My father’s story about class, color, currency, and (anti)communism in the Jamaican 1970s is now the subject of a Storyworth podcast episode. Grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with my Dad on this chapter in Caribbean history. t.co/157jzXndk1
An unforgettable moment. Thanks again to my comrades Michael Watts and William Balan-Gaubert!
Ryan Cecil JobsonNext Thursday, Chicago!