Maia Butler, Ph.D.
@MaiaLButler
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Af Am Lit UNCW. I write about home, migrations, and black transnationalism. She/her/hers @ED_Society1 Co-founder.
North Carolina, USA
Joined September 2015
“Contending w/the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies” by @FreeBlackTX & @MaiaLButler is among 60+ free-access articles this month on #blackgeographies #juneteenth
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AAG - AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice - All - The following titles reflect vital scholarship on Black Geographies in AAG’s journals in recent years. AAG and Taylor &...
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My "Many Voices, Many Souths" online SUII "Intro to Lit" course (61113) is near cancellation. Need students who want to read/watch Black, Latinx, Caribbean, LGBTQ authors/films and chat about Landscapes, Past in the Present, and Borderwork. @UNCWilmington @uncwenglish @UNCW_CAS
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My first peer-reviewed journal article FINALLY went live this week. "Seeing It for Wearing It: Autoethnography as Black Feminist Methodology" explores some of the challenges Black women who do work FOR and ABOUT Black women encounter in the academy. https://t.co/XdI404VtYr
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By Layla D. Brown-Vincent, Published on 09/19/19
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See: NY Times: "Everything Inside: Stories" by Edwidge Danticat https://t.co/WPI2GF8qtN
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For the characters in Edwidge Danticat’s new story collection, “Everything Inside,” the pull of their native land is as complex as it is strong.
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Mapping Black Ecologies arrives when we desperately need it. There is no understanding the planetary crisis without Black Studies. PERIODT! Thank you @JTRoane and Justin Hosbey for this sound and fury. Looking forward to the future installments.
Check out the latest piece, brilliant Justin Hosbey and I collaborated on about “Mapping Black Ecologies” for Current Research in Digital History Let us know what y’all think— https://t.co/EgErvI4OMn
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1/3: Honored to co-publish "Black Placemaking in Texas Sonic and Social Histories of Newton and Jasper County Freedom Colonies" with MJ Biazar in the latest issue of Current Research in Digital History!
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Humbled to talk with @MaiaLButler @DWill5 and @amariewomack today on @KPCC, remembering the literary giant Toni Morrison. We all need to curl up with a good book this week. Take a listen:
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Locating Drs. Williams and Womack to tag in a post now.
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Y'all! Listen to me on NPR talking about my great literary love, Toni Morrison. Also a mention of Danticat @ED_Society1 who loves her work deeply. Scroll down to see the amazing other guests on this segment. This was A TIME. https://t.co/DdhROp6XXe
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It’s here fam! Please enjoy the introduction to my book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). https://t.co/5vAGT66FSV My sincerest & heart-bursting thank you to all who made this piece of something in the world possible
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The Black Feminism Introductory Resource Guide highlights works and resources at the @SchomburgCenter, and NYPL at large. These works are essential to any researcher looking for an introduction into black feminism.
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J. Michael Dash will be missed but his legacy willl remain as an incredible scholar and mentor in Haitian and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Boy, is this issue close to my heart. Donor surgery is laparoscopic, go home from hosp the day after. Consider saving a life!
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A short piece on my research in my alumnae/i magazine! Vassar Quarterly.#rose #steel #vassargirls spring_2019 - Uncovering Historic African American Towns:
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👋🏾 I’m Maika. I co-wrote DEAR HAITI, LOVE ALAINE w/ my sis @maritzamoulite about a young Haitian American girl who gets sent to Haiti after a prank goes wrong. In Haiti, she learns about her family history & gets closer to her mom. There might even be a family curse 😉 #LasMusas
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“The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.” Toni Morrison
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