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Caribbean Studies
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July 22, 2024
Histories of Solitude
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-19…
July 22, 2024
Sugar, Cigars and Revolution
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…
July 14, 2024
Making Never-Never Land
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…
July 13, 2024
Worthy of Freedom
In Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Jonathan Connolly traces the normalizat…
July 4, 2024
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure
Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, pr…
July 3, 2024
Global Guyana
Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to…
July 2, 2024
Strolling in the Ruins
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…
June 22, 2024
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are…
June 16, 2024
Banana Cultures
Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and …
June 12, 2024
Novels, Needleworks, and Empire
In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorde…
June 11, 2024
Inventing Latinos
Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rat…
June 9, 2024
Harmony and Normalization
Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba a…
June 6, 2024
Caribbean Vectors
The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Year’s War, though it isn’t u…
May 27, 2024
Principles in Power
Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores the rel…
May 22, 2024
Race and Transnationalism in the Americas
Edited by Benjamin Bryce and David Sheinin, Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), highlights the importanc…
May 17, 2024
Patchwork Freedoms
In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative p…
May 12, 2024
State of Disaster
Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and…
May 7, 2024
Vodou en Vogue
In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals…
May 4, 2024
The Sandinista Revolution
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as so…
April 29, 2024
Nature's Wild
In Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (Duke UP, 2021), Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to…