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Caribbean Studies February 2, 2023

Dougla in the Twenty-First Century

Adding to the Mix

Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume titled Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to …

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Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.

African American Studies February 2, 2023

Almost Dead

Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807

Michael Lawrence Dickinson

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 (U Georgia …
International Horizons January 30, 2023

A Left Turn? The Politics of Latin America Today

A Discussion with Enrique Desmond Arias

Enrique Desmond Arias

Hosted by International Horizons
This week, RBI director John Torpey interviews Prof. Enrique Desmond Arias, a professor of political science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, about recent developments in Latin American politics …
Caribbean Studies January 22, 2023

Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba

Stories of Early Twentieth-century Migration from Barbados

Sharon Milagro Marshall

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Barbadians were among the thousands of British West Indians who migrated to Cuba in the early twentieth century in search of work. They were drawn there by employment opportunities fueled …
Latin American Studies January 17, 2023

Voices of the Race

Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960

Paulina Laura Alberto, George Reid Andrews, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba …
Latino Studies January 14, 2023

Racial Innocence

Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

Tanya Katerí Hernández

Hosted by Anna Lindner
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press, 2022) will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a …
Caribbean Studies January 13, 2023

A Regarded Self

Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being

Kaiama L. Glover

Hosted by Anna Lindner
In A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP, 2021), Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities …
Caribbean Studies January 8, 2023

The Unexceptional Case of Haiti

Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society

Philippe-Richard Marius

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance …
Middle Eastern Studies January 7, 2023

Frantz Fanon

Philosopher of the Barricades

Peter Hudis

Hosted by Mehdi Sanglaji
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the …
Critical Theory December 25, 2022

The Philosophy of Marronage

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz

Hosted by Anna Lindner
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz's book The Philosophy of Marronage (Filosofía del cimarronaje) theorizes the broader context behind the notion of "cimarronaje," marronage. Usually conceived of as enslaved peoples' flight from the plantation during …
Jewish Studies December 20, 2022

Keeping the Mystery Alive

Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production

Ariana Huberman

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Ariana Huberman's Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production (Academic Studies Press, 2022) delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American …
Chinese Studies December 16, 2022

The Chinese Atlantic

Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization

Sean Metzger

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical frame through which to understand discourses of globalization: the so-called …
Caribbean Studies December 14, 2022

Riff

The Shake Keane Story

Philip Nanton

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Philip Nanton's new book Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press, 2022) follows the life and work of Shake Keane, the peripatetic and creative poet and musician from St. Vincent. Keane was an …
Jewish Studies December 12, 2022

Nearly the New World

The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945

Joanna Newman

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the …
Anthropology December 10, 2022

Suspect Others

Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname

Stuart Earle Strange

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (U Toronto Press, 2021) explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname …
Medicine November 28, 2022

Where They Need Me

Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti

Pierre Minn

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular framework of …
Caribbean Studies November 16, 2022

Energy without Conscience

Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity

David McDermott Hughes

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Duke University Press, 2017), David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He …
Writ Large November 14, 2022

On Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism"

A Discussion with Kaiama Glover

Kaiama Glover

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Aimé Césaire was born in 1913 on the island of Martinique, which was colonized by the French in the 1600s. He received a scholarship to complete his education in Paris …
Islamic Studies November 11, 2022

The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean

Ken Chitwood

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Ken Chitwood’s book The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean (Lynn Rienner Publishers Inc, 2021) is a provocation to its readers to include Latin American and Caribbean Muslim histories …
Caribbean Studies November 7, 2022

Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Coping with Calamity

June Carolyn Erlick

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities …