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New Books in Caribbean Studies
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
Allison Coffelt, “Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip Through Haiti” (Lanternfish Press, 2018)
Allison Coffelt
Maps Are Lines We Draw
A Road Trip Through Haiti
Lanternfish Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network March 20, 2019 Greg Soden

Allison Coffelt lives and writes in Columbia, Missouri. She works as the director of education and outreach for the annual documentary-based True/False Film Festival, as well as hosting the fantastic True/False Podcast, featuring interviews and commentary with documentary filmmakers, available anywhere you get podcasts. Her writing has appeared in The... Read More
Andrew T. Fede, “Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World” (U Georgia Press, 2017)
Andrew T. Fede
Homicide Justified
The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World
University of Georgia Press, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 18, 2019 Ian J. Drake

Andrew T. Fede is a lawyer in private practice in northern New Jersey and an adjunct professor of law at Montclair State University.  His new book Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World (University of Georgia Press, 2017) is a comparative account of... Read More
César Brioso, “Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
César Brioso
Last Seasons in Havana
The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba
University of Nebraska Press, 2019

New Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SportsNew Books Network March 15, 2019 Bob D’Angelo

Today we are joined by César Brioso, author of the book Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Blending the love for baseball fans in Cuba had during the 1950s with the political upheaval that led to... Read More