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Jewish Studies January 5, 2022

Revolutionary Visions

Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Stephanie M. Pridgeon's book Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film (U Toronto Press, 2020) examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements …

Caribbean Studies

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Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.

Popular Culture January 18, 2022

Punk! Las Américas Edition

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, and Shane Greene

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In PUNK! Las Americas Editions (Intellect Books, 2021), editors Olga Rodrguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, and Shane Greene have compiled a collection of academic essays and punk paraphernalia (including interviews, zines, poetry, and visual segments) …
Philosophy January 10, 2022

Creolizing the Nation

Kris F. Sealey

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Can the concept of the nation be a resource for liberatory political struggle? Are the dangers of nationalism simply too great? In Creolizing the Nation (Northwestern UP, 2020), Kris F …
Caribbean Studies November 19, 2021

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean

Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970

Nicole C. Bourbonnais

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized …
African American Studies November 17, 2021

Blackening Britain

Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization

James G. Cantres

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period of decolonization in the British …
Anthropology November 10, 2021

Being La Dominicana

Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

Rachel Afi Quinn

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Dominican women being seen--and seeing themselves--in the media Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response …
Mobilities and Methods November 5, 2021

Scammer's Yard

The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

Jovan Scott Lewis

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and the poor …
Latin American Studies October 22, 2021

Disruptive Archives

Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars

Viviana Beatriz MacManus

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Today I talked to Viviana MacManus, author of Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars published by the University of Illinois Press in 2020. It has …
Literature October 12, 2021

Migrations

J. L. Torres

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Migrations (LA Review of Books, 2021) is a collection of short stories by the Puerto Rican born writer and now retired university professor J. L. Torres. Each story condenses a bit of …
African Studies October 11, 2021

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Kalle Kananoja

Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
In Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa (Cambridge UP, 2021), Kalle Kananoja tells the story of how pre-colonial communities throughout the west coast of Africa employed a wide range of medical …
Anthropology October 4, 2021

Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba

Takkara K. Brunson

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba (University of Florida Press, 2021), Dr. Takkara Brunson examines the political strategies used by Afro-Cuban women between 1886 and 195 …
Environmental Studies September 3, 2021

No Wood, No Kingdom

Political Ecology in the English Atlantic

Keith Pluymers

Hosted by Matthew Brown
Pushing back against the traditional narratives assuming that the American colonies served as resource “windfalls” which released Europe from the constraints of dwindling resources, No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology …
General History August 31, 2021

Madhouse

Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History

Jennifer L. Lambe

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
"On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital …
General History August 23, 2021

The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Stanley Mirvis

Hosted by Grant Kleiser
Stanley Mirvis' The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press, 2020) offers an in-depth look at the Portuguese Jews of Jamaica and their connections …
General History August 18, 2021

Cuban Memory Wars

Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile

Michael J. Bustamante

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
I had the pleasure of interviewing my mentor, Dr. Michael J. Bustamante on his first monograph, Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile which was published in March 2021 as part …
Gender Studies August 16, 2021

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for …
General History August 6, 2021

Celia Sánchez Manduley

The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary

Tiffany A. Sippial

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
I sat down with Dr. Tiffany Sippial to talk about her latest book, Celia Sanchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) …
Critical Theory August 4, 2021

Sonic Intimacy

Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos

Malcolm James

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can music change the world? In Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos (Bloomsbury, 2020), Malcolm James, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies …
Latin American Studies August 3, 2021

Dancing with the Revolution

Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba

Elizabeth B. Schwall

Hosted by Rachel Newman
In Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba (UNC Press, 2021), Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of …
General History July 22, 2021

Slave Revolt on Screen

The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

Hosted by Michael Vann
Michel-Rolph Trouillot wrote that “the silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and …