New Books Network Podcast

Caribbean Studies May 30, 2023

Channeling Knowledges

Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

Hosted by Elena Igartuburu

Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this in the construction of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, as well …

Environmental Studies May 23, 2023

Sea Change

An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

Christina Gerhardt

Hosted by Brian Hamilton

Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (U California Press …

General History May 12, 2023

Contracting Freedom

Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs

Maria L. Quintana

Hosted by Michael Vann

Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) explores the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean. It investigates these government-sponsored programs …

African American Studies April 28, 2023

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

Hosted by Deidre Tyler

In To Tell a Black Story of Miami (UP of Florida, 2022), Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image …

Latino Studies April 19, 2023

Translating Blackness

Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

Lorgia García Peña

Hosted by Geraldo Cadava

Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings …

Caribbean Studies April 17, 2023

World War II and the Caribbean

Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin edited volume World War II and the Caribbean (U West Indies Press, 2017) focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of …

Anthropology April 14, 2023

Cinegogía

An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema

Bridget Franco

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Cinegogía is an open-access website devoted to the teaching and study of Latin American cinemas. Bridget Franco, an associate professor of Spanish at College of the Holy Cross, founded and coordinates …

Jewish Studies April 5, 2023

Once We Were Slaves

The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family

Laura Arnold Leibman

Hosted by Drora Arussy

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found …

African American Studies April 4, 2023

Rastafari

The Evolution of a People and Their Identity

Charles Price

Hosted by Mickell Carter

Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, their political and religious significance minimized. But they have not been vanquished.Charles …

General History April 4, 2023

Journeys of Soviet Things

Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India

Sudha Rajagopalan

Hosted by Roland Clark

At the intersection of history, material culture studies, and post-socialist memory studies, Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India (Routledge, 2023) is an oral …

Political Science April 3, 2023

The Nature of Slavery

Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World

Katherine Johnston

Hosted by Susan Liebell

The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World (Oxford UP, 2022) interrogates how people with an interest in African slavery manufactured and publicly disseminated a baseless …

General History March 31, 2023

Under the Banner of King Death

Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel

David Lester and Marcus Rediker

Hosted by Michael Vann

Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, A Graphic Novel (Beacon Press, 2023) is a comic adaptation of Rediker’s now classic 2004 Villains of all Nation: Atlantic Pirates in …

Latin American Studies March 29, 2023

Cooperating with the Colossus

A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America

Rebecca Herman

Hosted by Rachel Newman

During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperation in hemisphere defense. Predictably, it …

Critical Theory March 27, 2023

Fear of a Black Republic

Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

Leslie M. Alexander

Hosted by Anna Lindner

The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's study reveals the untold story of …

Literature March 14, 2023

You Were Watching from the Sand

Juliana Lamy

Hosted by Kendall Dinniene

Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand (Red Hen Press, 2023) is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives …

Caribbean Studies March 9, 2023

Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados

The Late Colonial Period

Hilbourne A. Watson

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Beginning in the 1920s, Barbadians and other British West Indians began organizing politically in an international environment that was marked by a severe capitalist economic and financial crisis that intensified …

Caribbean Studies March 6, 2023

The Silver Women

How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal

Joan Flores-Villalobos

Hosted by Nicole Ramsey

In The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by …

Scholarly Communication March 4, 2023

Decolonizing American Spanish

Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Hosted by Avi Staiman

Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisical approach US institutions take towards Spanish language content …

Caribbean Studies March 4, 2023

Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados

The Independence Period, 1966-1976

Hilbourne A. Watson

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Hilbourne A. Watson's Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976 (U West Indies Press, 2020) is the companion volume to Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar …

African American Studies February 27, 2023

Fear of a Black Republic

Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

Leslie M. Alexander

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips

The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander’s study reveals the untold story of …