New Books Network Podcast

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

The Deepest Dye

Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

Aisha Khan

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir

In The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2021), Aisha Khan explores how colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and …

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 …

African American Studies November 4, 2022

Flying Fish in the Great White North

The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians

Christopher Stuart Taylor

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced …

Novel Dialogue November 3, 2022

The Best Error You Can Make

Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay

Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy

Hosted by Novel Dialogue

What can a French translator do with a novelist who writes brilliantly about the “confrontation between Englishes?” How can such a confrontation be made legible across the boundaries of language …

African American Studies November 3, 2022

The Workings of Diaspora

Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty

Mario Nisbett

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips

Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty (Lexington Books, 2021) shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons …

Latino Studies November 1, 2022

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

Sarah Quesada

Hosted by Anna Lindner

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2022) unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World …

Global Media & Communication October 24, 2022

Rude Citizenship

Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power

Larisa Kingston Mann

Hosted by Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang

In this episode, our host Mariela Morales Suárez discusses the book Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022) by Dr. Larisa Kingston Mann …

Children's Literature October 24, 2022

The Day I Became a Hurricane

Rose-Ann Smith

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir

The Day I Became a Hurricane (Hooked on Books Jamrock, 2022) is a children's educational book on hurricanes written by Dr. Rose-Ann Smith. Based on current research on natural disasters …

Catholic Studies October 7, 2022

Empire and Emancipation

Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850

S. Karly Kehoe

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850 (U Toronto Press, 2021) by Dr. S. Karly Kehoe explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics …

Latin American Studies October 7, 2022

The World That Latin America Created

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era

Margarita Fajardo

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Harvard University Press, 2022) tells the story of how a group of …

Latin American Studies October 5, 2022

The Middle Classes in Latin America

Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies

Mario Barbosa Cruz, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Claudia Stern

Hosted by Rachel Newman

As a collective effort, The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies (Routledge, 2022) locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of …

Literary Studies October 5, 2022

V. S. Naipaul's Journeys

From Periphery to Center

Sanjay Krishnan

Hosted by Gargi Binju

The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors …

Early Modern History September 30, 2022

Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Maria Berbara

Hosted by Jana Byars

When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Representations of Tupinamba cannibals, Aztecs slicing human …

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast September 26, 2022

The Aesthetic Cold War

Decolonization and Global Literature

Peter J. Kalliney

Hosted by Mark Klobas

How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature (Princeton UP, 2022), Peter Kalliney explores the …

Anthropology September 23, 2022

Trouillot Remixed

The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader

Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi L. Fernando

Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the …

Caribbean Studies September 19, 2022

Panama in Black

Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Kaysha Corinealdi

Hosted by Nicole Ramsey

In Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2022), Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama …