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Caribbean Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.
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April 16, 2024
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have c…
April 14, 2024
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2015), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on …
April 8, 2024
Empire of Brutality
Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex …
April 7, 2024
Deeping It
Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill (404 Ink, 2023) by Adèle Oliver shines a critical light on UK drill and its fraught rel…
April 4, 2024
Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)
In this episode, Elizabeth talks with Steven Gonzalez, anthropologist and author of speculative fiction under the pen name E.G. Condé. They discuss th…
April 2, 2024
The Sexual Politics of Empire
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side ac…
March 29, 2024
Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy
In 1717, the Council of Trade and Plantations received "agreeable news" from New England. "Bellamy with his ship and Company" had perished on the shoa…
March 23, 2024
Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981
Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing app…
March 10, 2024
American Slavers
A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and marin…
February 25, 2024
No Barrier Can Contain It
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 hist…
February 23, 2024
Turn the World Upside Down
In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers…
February 17, 2024
Puerto Rican Chicago
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom exper…
February 16, 2024
Cuban Cultural Heritage
Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation (UP of Florida, 2018) explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in …
February 14, 2024
Policing Life and Death
Marisol LeBrón’s new book, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019), examines the…
February 1, 2024
The Culture Trap
In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap: Et…
January 24, 2024
Traders in Men
During the eighteenth century, Britain’s slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the…
January 21, 2024
Offshore Attachments
Chelsea Schields's book Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (U California Press, 2023) reveals how the contested management of sex…
January 15, 2024
The Low-Carbon Contradiction
In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba became Latin America’s most oil-dependent economy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the country lost 86 percent of i…
January 9, 2024
The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Cur…
January 4, 2024
The Tame and the Wild
In The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press, 2024), Dr. Marcy Norton offers a dramatic new interpretation of the…