New Books Network
Caribbean Studies
History April 30, 2021

Patria

Puerto Rican Revolutionary Exiles in Late Nineteenth-Century New York

Edgardo Meléndez

Hosted by Peter Aigner
Edgardo Meléndez's book Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York (Centro Press, 2019) examines the activities and ideals of Puerto Rican revolutionary exiles in New York City at the …

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History April 26, 2021

Worldmaking After Empire

The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Adom Getachew

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Adom Getachew, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press …
Latin American Studies April 13, 2021

Just Immigration in the Americas

A Feminist Account

Allison B. Wolf

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
LGBTQ+ Studies April 12, 2021

Welcome to Fairyland

Queer Miami before 1940

Julio Capó Jr.

Hosted by Leo Valdes
Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)highlights how transnational forces—including (im)migration, trade, and tourism—to and from the Caribbean shaped Miami’s queer past. The book …
History April 9, 2021

Resisting Independence

Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic

Brad A. Jones

Hosted by Mark Klobas
The American Revolution has traditionally been presented as one of the thirteen colonies standing up to a tyrannical empire. Not only does this gloss over the involvement of the thousands …
Caribbean Studies March 26, 2021

Haiti's Paper War

Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954

Chelsea Stieber

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of …
History March 22, 2021

As If She Were Free

A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

Erica Ball and Tatiana Seijas

Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
Edited by Drs. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, As if She Were Free (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a collective biography of African and African-descended women across …
Celebration Studies March 17, 2021

After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy

Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti

Rebecca Hope Dirksen

Hosted by Isabel Machado
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens …
History March 12, 2021

Islanders and Empire

Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690

Juan José Ponce Vázquez

Hosted by Grant Kleiser
Dr. Juan José Ponce Vázquez's new book, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 (Cambridge UP, 2020) tracks the importance of smuggling to the society, economy, and politics of the island …
Music March 11, 2021

Chocolate Surrealism

Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean

Njoroge M. Njoroge

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), Dr. Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical …
Ethnographic Marginalia February 26, 2021

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

Deborah A. Thomas

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How can ethnographers use multimedia presentations of their work to reach new audiences, build different relationships with their participants, and promote new practices of witnessing and representation? On today’s episode …
Anthropology February 22, 2021

Streetwalking

LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

Ana-Maurine Lara

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara examines the dominant modes of power that seek to suppress LGBTQ lives and …
Latino Studies February 18, 2021

Decolonizing Diasporas

Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature

Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020), uses peripheralized (5) novels, visual/sonic works, poetry, essays …
Caribbean Studies February 16, 2021

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean

Daniel B. Rood

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age …
American Studies February 16, 2021

Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity

Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York

Rose Muzio

Hosted by Peter Aigner
In Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York (SUNY, 2017), Rose Muzio analyzes how structural and historical factors--including colonialism, economic marginalization, racial discrimination, and the Black and Brown …
Caribbean Studies February 11, 2021

The Right to Live in Health

Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana

Daniel A. Rodríguez

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation, The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), focuses …
Celebration Studies February 9, 2021

Jump Up!

Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City

Ray Allen

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City (Oxford University Press, 2019) is a comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Blending urban studies, oral history, archival research …
Caribbean Studies January 27, 2021

The Business of Leisure

Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean

Andrew Grant Wood

Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
Professor Andrew Grant Wood’s new edited volume, The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), explores the political, economic, and cultural …
Third World Nationalism January 26, 2021

Latin American Nationalism

Identity in a Globalizing World

James F. Siekmeier

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is a Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the left, in …
Caribbean Studies January 20, 2021

Rogue Revolutionaries

The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean

Vanessa Mongey

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
The University of Pennsylvania describes Mongey's work as follows. "When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simon Bolivar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries …