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Andrés Pertierra

@ASPertierra

Historian of Cuba. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD Candidate @UWMadison. Bylines: @thenation @DissentMag I’m https://t.co/sn3zTPW2lK on BlueSky

Mainz, Germany Katılım Eylül 2013
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Proud to have my latest in @DissentMag’s Spring issue, going live today I go over the causes and consequences of the current crisis in Cuba
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@Yulianpoe The math is off by orders of magnitude and the arguments for why people did what they did are argued backwards from priors rather than being rebuilt from a basis in solid archival research (core criticisms as I understand them)
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@ASPertierra Oh, that one is in my reading list. Do you have any thread at hand explaining what's wrong with it?
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My "scholars not reading" story is that when I sent my book out the first time reviewer 2 came back claiming my topic has already been well covered by Ho Ping-ti and others, and that my book is unpublishable. The questions suggest that reviewer read maybe 2-3 chapters out of 8
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My “scholars not reading” story is: a reviewer after two weeks recommended the journal reject my article, on the grounds that I did not address three major points. Except that I did, and did so for several pages. I emailed the journal’s editor with a 2-page defense and complaint

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@MeathGuerilla I wonder if before he dedicated his life to writing crank revisionist history to defend Stalin whether Grover Furr was a solid scholar on his actual Medieval English Lit field and that people in that field keep citing him, looking up what he published since, and going '?????'
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@ASPertierra The absolute funniest is when a respected scholar becomes fixated on an insane crank theory and angers multiple fields at once - Christopher Beckwith has been trying to prove that Korea, Japan and China are all actually Scythian civilisations at the root for 20 years now
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Twitter has kind of played this role, to some degree, with people who got private explanations/warnings about texts sharing that awareness publicly, but I do think scholars could do more to flag stuff that's just outright unserious/tendentious so they don't have wide influence
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Thinking here of how Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch is infamous among Early Modernists, but was still (as of 6 years ago) being recommended to me as a solid work by people who don't specializing in early modern period
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@Pawger5 exactly. honestly it's super weird that this person is a 1st gen themselves
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@ASPertierra 2nd gen tends to much more particular about this for some reason. First gen tend to be much more flexible & by the third they're statistically no different from the median American in most ways. It's this(often unreasonable) fixation on what's traditional/culturally "theirs."
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Newly declassified CIA and British intelligence files reveal that the KGB systematically used staged same-sex “compromise” operations against Western diplomats, journalists, and scholars during the Cold War. direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/2…
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It's a tension, not an insoluble one, but also one that has potential to come back as an issue for Rubio, Trump, and the GOP more generally if they mess it up
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@k155b01 I think diasporas are given more rope to be unreasonable because of guilt
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@ASPertierra Absolutely not just limited to diasporas. The worst parts of left wing groups are always people insecure in their working class or intellectual (or identity) credentials, leading them to frame themselves as an arbiter of others.
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@cszabla also true of positions on the island itself. The divide between white early waves, sometimes referred to as 'historical exile', and darker more working class later waves, especially since Mariel, is important but the rage against the gov extends across racial lines now
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@cszabla In Cuba discourse, and scholarship, this is a point that's constantly talked about tbh. To the point that it's sometimes, as here, used to deflect from the issue that many hardliners today are very much not white at all. Past decade has negatively polarized many to hardline takes
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I am also a diaspora kid and also had dumb takes. I am not judging from on high. I know the disease because I recognize it, even though in this case I think it is a far more advanced stage than anything I had
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I think it's ok to be a diaspora kid or emigre yourself and have complex feelings that lead you to positions that later, with maturity and time, you realize are totally unreasonable and embarrassing. The real problem is the cultural moment when this stuff was pandered to
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Given how late Spaniards are to everything it makes sense that the scariest terror organization of the past 50 years there was named ETA
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