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Ariel Mae Lambe, “No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War” (UNC Press, 2019)
Ariel Mae Lambe
No Barrier Can Contain It
Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 22, 2020 Rachel Grace Newman

Ariel Mae Lambe’s new book No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) is a history of transnational Cuban activists who mobilized in the mid-1930s to fight fascism both in Cuba and beyond. A wide variety of civic and political... Read More
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, “Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops” (Routledge, 2019)
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Aerial Imagination in Cuba
Stories from Above the Rooftops
Routledge, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 9, 2020 Alejandra Bronfman

In her new book Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops (Routledge, 2019), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier looks up at the sky, and from there she begins her stories about wifi, pigeons, cacti, the lottery and congas. This dense and surprising ethnography considers the everyday lives of Cubans as they... Read More
Brandon R. Byrd, “The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti” (U Penn Press, 2019)
Brandon R. Byrd
The Black Republic
African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 24, 2019 Derek Litvak

Brandon R. Byrd is the author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. The Black Republic examines the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th century.... Read More
Lennox Honychurch, “In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica” (UP Mississippi, 2017)
Lennox Honychurch
In the Forests of Freedom
The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
University Press of Mississippi, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 12, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries. Dominica’s unusual history of a relatively brief period of colonization and few sugar plantations shaped a history of Maroon life very different from the more familiar experiences of Jamaican Maroons. Here they were able to exploit differences... Read More
Luis Martínez-Fernández, “Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba” (U Florida Press, 2018)
Luis Martínez-Fernández
Key to the New World
A History of Early Colonial Cuba
University of Florida Press, 2018

New Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 10, 2019 Colin Mustful

From pre-contact, to first-contact, to colonization and beyond, Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba (University of Florida Press, 2018) by Luis Martínez-Fernández is an easy-to-read, yet incredibly fascinating and informative book on the history of early Cuba. In this interview, Martínez-Fernández talks about his Latin... Read More
Peter Kerasotis, “Alou: My Baseball Journey” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Felipe Alou and Peter Kerasotis
Alou
My Baseball Journey
University of Nebraska Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SportsNew Books Network November 26, 2019 Jorge Iber

All aficionados of baseball are familiar with the pathbreaking role of Jackie Robinson in reintegrating the game back in 1947. What many fans are less familiar with are the issues that Latinos of color endured both in the minor leagues and the Majors starting back in the 1950s. How difficult... Read More
David Wheat, “Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640” (UNC Press, 2016)
David Wheat
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 18, 2019 Lisette Varón Carvajal

David Wheat’s fantastic book Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean. For Wheat, the history of the region is entangled with older and deeper... Read More
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