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New Books in Caribbean Studies
Jesse Cromwell, “The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela” (UNC Press, 2018)
Jesse Cromwell
The Smugglers’ World
Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

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 August 28, 2019 Julia M. Gossard

Chocolate – nothing is more irresistible for a decadent treat or a rich drink to warm you on a cold winter’s evening.  In eighteenth-century Venezuela, cacao became a life source for the colony. Neglected by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods. But, they... Read More
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, “Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Racial Migrations
New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 27, 2019 Jaime Sánchez and Jr.

In his new book, Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean (Princeton University Press, 2019), historian Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States. Hoffnung-Garskof, Professor of History... Read More
Sam Erman, “Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Sam Erman
Almost Citizens
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 25, 2019 Derek Litvak

Sam Erman is the author of Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Almost Citizens recounts the story of how Puerto Rico came to be part of the United States empire at the turn of the 20th Century. More specifically, Erman... Read More
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