About Candela Marini

Candela Marini is assistant professor of Latin American Studies at MSOE University (interviews in English and Spanish) Candela Marini es profesora asistente en el departamento de humanidades de la universidad MSOE (entrevistas en inglés y castellano)
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NBN Episodes hosted by Candela:

Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)

June 2, 2022

Looking for Alicia

Marc Raboy
Hosted by Candela Marini

The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behind It started with a coincidence--when Marc Rab…

John D. French, "Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil" (UNC Press, 2020)

November 30, 2021

Lula and His Politics of Cunning

John D. French
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Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He …

Corinna Zeltsman, "Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)

September 2, 2021

Ink Under the Fingernails

Corinna Zeltsman
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During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for p…

Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade, "No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media" (Vernon Press, 2020)

July 2, 2021

No Laughing Matter

Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade
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No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media (Vernon Press, 2020) examines the social phenomenon of construction and disse…

William G. Acree, "Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)

May 12, 2021

Staging Frontiers

William Garrett Acree
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Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American best sellers. But when these stories jump…

Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises: A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse" (Brill, 2020)

December 15, 2020

Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises

Ana Beatriz Ribeiro
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What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, An…

João Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)

August 28, 2020

The Denial of Antiblackness

João Costa Vargas
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An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society. Thanks to moveme…

Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)

August 5, 2020

¡Destape!

Natalia Milanesio
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Under dictatorship in Argentina, sex and sexuality were regulated to the point where sex education, explicit images, and even suggestive material were…

Ashley E. Kerr, "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)" (Vanderbilt UP, 2020)

June 22, 2020

Sex, Skulls, and Citizens 

Ashley E. Kerr
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Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910) (Vanderbilt…