Caribbean Studies

Caribbean Studies

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Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.

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Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

March 31, 2026

A Home Away from Home

Tyesha Maddox
Hosted by Kiana Knight

A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) examines the significance of Carib…

Ricardo Wilson, "Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes" (Princeton UP, 2026)

March 27, 2026

Troubled Lands

Ricardo Wilson
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson A landmark book—the first complet…

Erica Morawski, "Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

March 26, 2026

Development Design

Erica Morawski
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Underneath picturesque views of palm trees, fruity cocktails in hotel lounges, and day trips to preserved colonial zones lies a history of tourism des…

Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)

March 23, 2026

Archival Irruptions

Katharine Gerbner
Hosted by Adam McNeil

In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial…

Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)

March 11, 2026

Black Climates

Selina Nwulu

Brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. Globally, Black people are among the most affected by the climate crisis,…

Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

March 4, 2026

Decolonial Care

Jennifer Boum Make
Hosted by Gina Stamm

Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean (Rutgers UP, 2025) examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and t…

Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)

February 23, 2026

Arbitrating Empire

Allison Powers
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford UP, 2024) by Dr. Allison Powers offers a new history o…

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

February 22, 2026

Making the Latino South

Cecilia Márquez
Hosted by Anna Lindner

The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A History…

Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

February 22, 2026

Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981

Lillian Guerra
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick

Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing app…

Darién J. Davis, "'Black Orpheus' and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

February 18, 2026

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

Darién J. Davis
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

“Black Orpheus” and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Rutgers UP, 2026) is the first historical study in English to examine the development…

David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)

February 18, 2026

Out of the Ballpark

David M. Henkin
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

All over the world, masses of people watch, follow, document, and obsess over baseball. Everything remarkable about the impact of baseball derives fro…

Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)

February 6, 2026

The Moving Word

Leslie James

In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printed…

Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

February 3, 2026

Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities

Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius
Hosted by Gina Stamm

Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings (Liverpool UP, 2025) bridges the gap between the Carib…

Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)

February 1, 2026

Voodoo

Danielle N. Boaz
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Coined in the middle of the nineteenth century, the term "voodoo" has been deployed largely by people in the U.S. to refer to spiritual practices--rea…

Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)

January 27, 2026

Atlantic Crescent

Alaina M. Morgan
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier

Alaina Morgan's Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora (UNC Press, 2025) introduces the concep…

Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

January 20, 2026

Transoceanic Blackface

Kellen Hoxworth
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern UP, 2024) Dr. Kellen Hoxworth presents a sweeping history of racialized performance…

Johanna Lukate, "(Dis)Entangled: Black Hair, Race, and Identity" (Coronet, 2025)

January 16, 2026

(Dis)Entangled

Johanna Lukate
Hosted by Hannah Pool

Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are a…

Reena Goldthree, "Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2025)

January 16, 2026

Democracy’s Foot Soldiers

Reena N. Goldthree
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Following the outbreak of World War I, tens of thousands of men from the British Caribbean volunteered as soldiers to fight on behalf of the British E…

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)

January 14, 2026

P Fkn R

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke UP, 2026) explores the work of Puerto Rican musical superstar Bad Bunn…

Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)

January 11, 2026

The Tame and the Wild

Marcy Norton
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press, 2024), Dr. Marcy Norton offers a dramatic new interpretation of the…