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Caribbean Studies
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April 13, 2021
Just Immigration in the Americas
A Feminist Account
Allison B. Wolf
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
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LGBTQ+ Studies
April 12, 2021
Welcome to Fairyland
Queer Miami before 1940
Julio Capó Jr.
Hosted by Leo Valdes
Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)highlights how transnational forces—including (im)migration, trade, and tourism—to and from the Caribbean shaped Miami’s queer past. The book …
History
April 9, 2021
Resisting Independence
Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic
Brad A. Jones
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The American Revolution has traditionally been presented as one of the thirteen colonies standing up to a tyrannical empire. Not only does this gloss over the involvement of the thousands …
Caribbean Studies
March 26, 2021
Haiti's Paper War
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954
Chelsea Stieber
Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of …
History
March 22, 2021
As If She Were Free
A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Erica Ball and Tatiana Seijas
Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
Edited by Drs. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, As if She Were Free (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a collective biography of African and African-descended women across …
Celebration Studies
March 17, 2021
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy
Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti
Rebecca Hope Dirksen
Hosted by Isabel Machado
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens …
History
March 12, 2021
Islanders and Empire
Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690
Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Hosted by Grant Kleiser
Dr. Juan José Ponce Vázquez's new book, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 (Cambridge UP, 2020) tracks the importance of smuggling to the society, economy, and politics of the island …
Music
March 11, 2021
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
Njoroge M. Njoroge
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), Dr. Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical …
Ethnographic Marginalia
February 26, 2021
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation
Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair
Deborah A. Thomas
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How can ethnographers use multimedia presentations of their work to reach new audiences, build different relationships with their participants, and promote new practices of witnessing and representation? On today’s episode …
Anthropology
February 22, 2021
Streetwalking
LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Ana-Maurine Lara
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara examines the dominant modes of power that seek to suppress LGBTQ lives and …
Latino Studies
February 18, 2021
Decolonizing Diasporas
Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez
Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020), uses peripheralized (5) novels, visual/sonic works, poetry, essays …
Caribbean Studies
February 16, 2021
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery
Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean
Daniel B. Rood
Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age …
American Studies
February 16, 2021
Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity
Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York
Rose Muzio
Hosted by Peter Aigner
In Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York (SUNY, 2017), Rose Muzio analyzes how structural and historical factors--including colonialism, economic marginalization, racial discrimination, and the Black and Brown …
Caribbean Studies
February 11, 2021
The Right to Live in Health
Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
Daniel A. Rodríguez
Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation, The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), focuses …
Celebration Studies
February 9, 2021
Jump Up!
Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City
Ray Allen
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City (Oxford University Press, 2019) is a comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Blending urban studies, oral history, archival research …
Caribbean Studies
January 27, 2021
The Business of Leisure
Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean
Andrew Grant Wood
Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
Professor Andrew Grant Wood’s new edited volume, The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), explores the political, economic, and cultural …
Third World Nationalism
January 26, 2021
Latin American Nationalism
Identity in a Globalizing World
James F. Siekmeier
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is a Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the left, in …
Caribbean Studies
January 20, 2021
Rogue Revolutionaries
The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean
Vanessa Mongey
Hosted by Sharika Crawford
The University of Pennsylvania describes Mongey's work as follows. "When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simon Bolivar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries …
Intellectual History
January 18, 2021
Hubert Harrison
The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927
Jeffrey B. Perry
Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black …
Latin American Studies
January 12, 2021
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Sharika D. Crawford
Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
In The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Makin (University of North Carolina Press 2020), Dr. Sharika Crawford tells the story of Caymanian turtle hunters …
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