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Caribbean Studies
August 16, 2022
Island on Fire
The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
Tom Zoellner
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Miranda Melcher
For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown …
Caribbean Studies
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Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.
Latin American Studies
August 3, 2022
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin
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Steven Rodriguez
In The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022), David Sheinin and Juan Pablo Scarfi bring together articles that reconsider many aspects of U.S.-Latin American history. Pan-Americanism …
General History
August 2, 2022
The King's Peace
Law and Order in the British Empire
Lisa Ford
Hosted by
Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Lisa Ford, Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, is the author of prize-winning monographs and a luminary in the field of global legal history. Her new …
Geography
July 15, 2022
Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean
Pedagogy, Processes and Practices
Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson
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Stentor Danielson
Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices (University of the West Indies Press, 2022) offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating a sustainable world. Lorna …
On Religion
July 15, 2022
Visions of Zion
Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land
Erin C. MacLeod
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. "Repatriation is a must!" they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since …
General History
July 13, 2022
Born to Be Hanged
The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
Keith Thomson
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Miranda Melcher
The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed …
Human Rights
July 1, 2022
Principles in Power
Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy
Vanessa Walker
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Jo Butterfield
Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in …
How to Be Wrong
June 10, 2022
Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
An Conversation with Khytie Brown
Khytie Brown
Hosted by
John Traphagan
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Khytie Brown, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at …
Latin American Studies
June 7, 2022
Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gómez
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Elize Mazadiego
In this podcast, Lisa Blackmore, Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, History and Interdisciplinary Studies Centre at the University of Essex, and Liliana Gomez, Professor of Art and Society …
American South
May 31, 2022
Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross
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Brandon Jett
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge UP, 2020) tells the story of enslaved and …
Caribbean Studies
May 30, 2022
Engendering Islands
Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean
Ashley M. Williard
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Grant Kleiser
In Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), Dr. Ashley M. Williard demonstrates how problematics of gender played a central role in defining …
Latin American Studies
May 27, 2022
Home in Florida
Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness
Anjanette Delgado
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Minni Sawhney
Today I spoke to Anjanette Delgado, a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami who has compiled emblematic stories and essays by writers from many countries who congregate in …
Caribbean Studies
May 24, 2022
Daylight Come
Diana McCaulay
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Alejandra Bronfman
It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling trial. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day and …
Medicine
May 13, 2022
Difference and Disease
Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Suman Seth
Hosted by
Rachel Pagones
Before the nineteenth century, travelers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why …
Anthropology
May 10, 2022
Suspicion
Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados
Nicole Charles
Hosted by
Reighan Gillam
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of …
Recall This Book
May 5, 2022
We are Not Digested
A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
Rajiv Mohabir
Hosted by
Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Rajiv Mohabir is a dazzling poet of linguistics crossovers, who works in English, Bhojpuri, Hindi and more. He is as prolific as he is polyglot (three books in 2021!) and …
High Theory
April 28, 2022
Hurricanes
A Discussion with Sonya Posmentier
Sonya Posmentier
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Sonya Posmentier about hurricanes. Sonya writes about hurricanes and diaspora in her book, Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press …
Caribbean Studies
April 27, 2022
The Lettered Barriada
Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico
Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
Hosted by
Alejandra Bronfman
In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke UP, 2021), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated …
Caribbean Studies
April 11, 2022
Haiti Fights Back
The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte
Yveline Alexis
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Alejandra Bronfman
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte (Rutgers University Press, 2021), by Yveline Alexis is the first US study of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who …
Anthropology
April 5, 2022
Making Livable Worlds
Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
Hilda Lloréns
Hosted by
Adam Bobeck
When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pommeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities …
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