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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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Andrés Pertierra
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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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@Minaplo1 Just be more willing to say critical but true things in good faith and let people who can't handle fair criticism be as vindictive and petty as they might be underneath; that is not your problem as a scholar
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@ASPertierra What might that look like, do you think?
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I remember finding out about Black Athena years ago leading me down a rabbit hole that ended with a debate over it between a classicist and a self-taught scholar who believed that Alexander the Great had stolen ancient Egyptian knowledge from the Library of Alexandria
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller
I mean if we’re talking about bad woke classicism, this is the worst of the worst
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@specifism I’m not sure the centrality of witch hunts to her argument makes the other parts salvageable except in a very abstract sense tbh
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@ASPertierra The book's examination of the constant and essential role of so called primitive accumulation also makes it incredibly valuable
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@lionel_trolling Where is this from? (The conspiracy stuff is unsurprising because I remember him blaming hurricanes on cia machines in Alaska or something)
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@NicoMichaelides That's definitely a problem in general but as I understand it the issues aren't errata but core parts of her causal arguments (the data is wrong, the causal relationships are divorced from systematic primary source research, etc.)
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@ASPertierra As in to say, I feel at some point people also use historical inaccuracies to justify not having to engage with the ideas of a book, and the topic of Caliban, for example, is quite controversial.
Do you notice this too?
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@NicoMichaelides As to Slobodian, I haven't read Hayek's Bastards but I read Globalists and enjoyed it and as far as I know he's taken seriously even by people who don't agree with his arguments.
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@NicoMichaelides There's lots of books that are flawed but important but as far as I know Caliban reaches levels of getting core claims wrong that it's just genuinely a train wreck. I never say people should not read books like that, just that such texts should be accompanied by better work
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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
Erik Eklund@Eklundsays
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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One of those things you can't really unnotice once you start noticing it is how often the most unreasonable takes are people in diasporas clearly working through something deeply personal through the medium of unreasonable policing of others
SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma@SubwayTakes
White people should not be allowed to sit on stoops in Bed-Stuy!! @arooj_aftab
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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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Solid piece exploring the huge tension between Trump's pursuit of Venezuela 2.0 for Cuba while Marco Rubio navigates his own expectations from Cuban Americans in Florida
Rubio also has a stake in things going well for personal reasons (of course) as he is also CA
Financial Times@FT
Marco Rubio combats Cuban American backlash as he seeks Havana deal ft.trib.al/kpfY8wU
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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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