Caribbean Studies

Caribbean Studies

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Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.

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Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)

October 7, 2024

Black Expression and White Generosity

Natalie Wall
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey thro…

Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

September 30, 2024

The Holocaust and New World Slavery

Steven T. Katz
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world s…

Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

September 21, 2024

More Auspicious Shores

Caree A. Banton
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Caree A. Banton's book More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic (Cambridge UP, 2019) c…

Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

September 17, 2024

Populista

Will Grant
Hosted by Katie Coldiron

Today I talked to Will Grant about his book Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman (Bloomsbury, 2021). or more than six decade…

Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)

September 13, 2024

The Subject of Revolution

Jennifer L. Lambe
Hosted by Katie Coldiron

From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 202…

Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

September 10, 2024

Baseball as Mediated Latinidad

Jennifer Domino Rudolph

In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity (Ohio State University Press, 2020)…

Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)

September 7, 2024

Encyclopédie Noire

Sara E. Johnson
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-M…

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)

August 17, 2024

Haitian History

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousn…

Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)

July 31, 2024

Roots of Power

Michael J. Sheridan
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protec…

Lisandro Perez, "Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York" (NYU Press, 2018)

July 22, 2024

Sugar, Cigars and Revolution

Lisandro Perez
Hosted by Beth Harpaz

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez's Sugar, Cigars and Revolutio…

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto, "Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s" (Routledge, 2024)

July 22, 2024

Histories of Solitude

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-19…

Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)

July 14, 2024

Making Never-Never Land

Mónica A. Jiménez
Hosted by Jonathan Cortez

Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the interp…

Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

July 13, 2024

Worthy of Freedom

Jonathan Connolly

In Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Jonathan Connolly traces the normalizat…

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)

July 4, 2024

In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, pr…

Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)

July 3, 2024

Global Guyana

Oneka LaBennett
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to…

Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)

July 2, 2024

Strolling in the Ruins

Faith Smith
Hosted by Zachary Myers

In Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2023), Faith Smith engages with a period in t…

Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

June 22, 2024

Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

Keja L. Valens
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are…

John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021)

June 16, 2024

Banana Cultures

John Soluri
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and …

Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)

June 12, 2024

Novels, Needleworks, and Empire

Chloe Wigston Smith
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorde…

Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)

June 11, 2024

Inventing Latinos

Laura Gómez

Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rat…