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Yarimar is a celebrated author and editor known for both her analytical acumen and lucid prose. Writing broadly across disciplines and fields, Bonilla tackles questions of coloniality, sovereignty, historicity, racial politics, digital ethnography, cartographic representation, and the politics of memory. She is also actively involved in producing animated scholarly videos, public syllabi, and other forms of public scholarship.

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Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities

Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities

Covid, Twitter, and Critique: An Interview with Carlo Caduff

Covid, Twitter, and Critique: An Interview with Carlo Caduff

Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir

Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir

Interview with Deborah Thomas about AA cover controversy

Interview with Deborah Thomas about AA cover controversy

The Coloniality of Disaster: Race, empire, and the temporal logics of emergency

The Coloniality of Disaster: Race, empire, and the temporal logics of emergency

La espera del desastre/The Wait of Disaster

La espera del desastre/The Wait of Disaster

Unsettling the classics: On symptomatic readings and disciplinary agnosticism

Unsettling the classics: On symptomatic readings and disciplinary agnosticism

Deprovincializing Trump, Decolonizing Diversity, and Unsettling Anthropology

Deprovincializing Trump, Decolonizing Diversity, and Unsettling Anthropology

Unsettling Sovereignty

Unsettling Sovereignty

Visualizing Sovereignty: Cartographic Queries for the Digital Age

Visualizing Sovereignty: Cartographic Queries for the Digital Age

Fast Writing: Ethnography in the Digital Age

Fast Writing: Ethnography in the Digital Age

#Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media

#Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media

Between Terror and Transcendence: Global Narratives of Islam and the Political Scripts of Guadeloupe’s Indianité

Between Terror and Transcendence: Global Narratives of Islam and the Political Scripts of Guadeloupe’s Indianité

Remembering the Songwriter: the Life and Legacies of Michel Rolph Trouillot

Remembering the Songwriter: the Life and Legacies of Michel Rolph Trouillot

Ordinary Sovereignty

Ordinary Sovereignty

History Unchained (Reflections on ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Django Unchained)

History Unchained (Reflections on ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Django Unchained)

Burning Questions: The Life and Work of Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1949-2012

Burning Questions: The Life and Work of Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1949-2012

Le syndicalisme comme marronage: épistémologies du travail et de l’histoire en Guadeloupe

Le syndicalisme comme marronage: épistémologies du travail et de l’histoire en Guadeloupe

Guadalupe es nuestra: El impacto de la huelga general en el imaginario político de las Antillas Francesas.

Guadalupe es nuestra: El impacto de la huelga general en el imaginario político de las Antillas Francesas.

The Past Is Made by Walking: Labor Activism and Historical Production in Postcolonial Guadeloupe

The Past Is Made by Walking: Labor Activism and Historical Production in Postcolonial Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe Is Ours. The Prefigurative Politics of the Mass Strike in the French Antilles.

Guadeloupe Is Ours. The Prefigurative Politics of the Mass Strike in the French Antilles.