Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Yale University: Exploring Blackness in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes. Really!

Like some say Cleopatra was black and so was Jesus! 

Does this smell like claims of black supremacy? Oh yes it does!

The author is "Nicholas R. Jones, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences"

"Nicholas R. Jones had a lot to get off his chest. “Writing this book was very liberating,” Jones said of Cervantine Blackness (November 2024, Pennsylvania State University Press). His upcoming book plays with the genre and form of academic writing to explore the culture, joy, despair, and other rich experiences of black culture and black life in the works of 17th-century Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. ...
Jones’s first book, Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (2019, Pennsylvania State University Press), spurred both pushback and transformation in his field of early modern Iberian studies. ..."

Exploring Blackness in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes | Faculty of Arts and Sciences




The author. Was he a DEI hire? (Photo source)






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