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New Books in Caribbean Studies
Carlos Garrido Castellano, “Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art” (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Carlos Garrido Castellano
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art
Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Rutgers University Press, 2019

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network July 17, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

A work of art about doing nothing; a work of art that invites people to take it apart; a work of art that consists of two people walking in a town in the Dominican Republic. These are just some examples Carlos Garrido Castellano takes up in Beyond Representation in Contemporary... Read More
Marisol LeBrón, “Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico” (U California Press, 2019)
Marisol LeBrón
Policing Life and Death
Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 18, 2019 Jesse Zarley

Marisol LeBrón’s new book, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019), examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present. As in the United States, LeBrón shows... Read More
Katherine M. Marino, “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement” (UNC Press, 2019)
Katherine M. Marino
Feminism for the Americas
The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 14, 2019 Lilian Calles Barger

Katherine M. Marino is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) follows the many Latin American and Caribbean women in the first half of the century who... Read More
Marixa Lasso, “Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal” (Harvard UP, 2019)
Marixa Lasso
Erased
The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 20, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

Many of our presumptions about the Panama Canal Zone are wrong; it was not carved out of uninhabited jungle, the creation of Lake Gatún did not flood towns and force them to move, people living in the zone prior to the construction of the canal were not out of step... Read More
Melissa Johnson, “Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Melissa Johnson
Becoming Creole
Nature and Race in Belize
Rutgers University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network April 26, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

Drawing from Sylvia Wynter’s call for rethinking our category of “human”, Melissa Johnson‘s ethnography Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize (Rutgers University Press, 2018) demonstrates how entangled people are with the other-than-human that surrounds them. Mud, water, trees, animals and people form assemblages and shape particular identities. These relationships... Read More
Elena Schneider, “The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World” (UNC Press, 2018)
Elena Schneider
The Occupation of Havana
War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 2, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers. In her stunning revision, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Elena Schneider restores the... Read More
Brooke Newman, “A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica” (Yale UP, 2018)
Brooke Newman
A Dark Inheritance
Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
Yale University Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 27, 2019 Adam McNeil

In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens? This is one of the many questions broached by Dr. Brooke Newman in her new book A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica (Yale University Press, 2018),... Read More