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Caribbean Studies August 16, 2022

Island on Fire

The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

Tom Zoellner

Hosted by 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 …

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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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …