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Chinese Studies
March 19, 2023
China and Latin America
Development, Agency and Geopolitics
Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez
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Miranda Melcher
China's role as an economic powerhouse in Latin America is reshaping a region on the cusp of development and change. Since the turn of the century, bilateral trade between China …
Latin American Studies
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Political Science
March 16, 2023
The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America
Hernán Flom
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Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Hernán Flom has written a fascinating and nuanced analysis of how the criminal drug markets operate in Argentina and Brazil. Instead of tracking the path that illegal drugs …
Latin American Studies
March 11, 2023
Abandoning Their Beloved Land
The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
Alberto García
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Rachel Newman
Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (U California Press, 2023) offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican …
Caribbean Studies
March 9, 2023
Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados
The Late Colonial Period
Hilbourne A. Watson
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Ari Barbalat
Beginning in the 1920s, Barbadians and other British West Indians began organizing politically in an international environment that was marked by a severe capitalist economic and financial crisis that intensified …
Mexican Studies
March 9, 2023
Conspiracy Narratives South of the Border
Bad Hombres Do the Twist
Gonzalo Soltero
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Roberto Mazza
Gonzalo Soltero's book Conspiracy Narratives South of the Border: Bad Hombres Do the Twist (Routledge, 2022) examines four conspiracy narratives from Mexico that push the boundaries of conspiracy research in a …
Peoples & Things
March 6, 2023
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
A Conversation with Sonia Robles
Sonia Robles
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Lee Vinsel
Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, talks about her book, Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s Northern Border, 1930-1950 (University of Arizona Press, 2019) …
Caribbean Studies
March 6, 2023
The Silver Women
How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
Joan Flores-Villalobos
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Nicole Ramsey
In The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by …
Anthropology
March 5, 2023
Materializing Ritual Practices
Lisa M. Johnson and Rosemary A. Joyce
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Adam Bobeck
Materializing Ritual Practices (U Colorado Press, 2022) explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interdisciplinary research can be coordinated to illuminate how …
Caribbean Studies
March 4, 2023
Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados
The Independence Period, 1966-1976
Hilbourne A. Watson
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Ari Barbalat
Hilbourne A. Watson's Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976 (U West Indies Press, 2020) is the companion volume to Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar …
Religion
February 28, 2023
Beyond Belief
How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World
Elle Hardy
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? This is the religion of …
Native American Studies
February 26, 2023
On Savage Shores
How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Caroline Dodds Pennock
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Miranda Melcher
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Knopf, 2023) by Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock presents a landmark work of narrative history that shatters our Eurocentric understanding of the Age …
Caribbean Studies
February 25, 2023
The 1935 Riots in St Vincent
From Riots to Adult Suffrage
Adrian Fraser
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Ari Barbalat
St Vincent was among the earliest of the British Caribbean colonies to have experienced labour disturbances in the 1930s. While disturbances in the other Caribbean colonies were largely associated with …
Caribbean Studies
February 21, 2023
The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey
Translated and edited by Chris Bongie
Chris Bongie
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Ari Barbalat
Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as an event of world-historical importance. The former slaves' victory …
Critical Theory
February 17, 2023
We Are Cuba!
How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World
Helen Yaffe
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Morteza Hajizadeh
In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place …
Caribbean Studies
February 17, 2023
You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot
Freddy Prestol Castillo. Translated by Margaret Randall.
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Ari Barbalat
In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on …
Latin American Studies
February 16, 2023
On Our Own Terms
Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala
Sarah Foss
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Rachel Newman
During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evident in today's hemispheric policies. Development became a key …
Latin American Studies
February 16, 2023
When Rains Became Floods
A Child Soldier’s Story
Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez. Translated by Margaret Randall.
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Ari Barbalat
When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier’s Story (Duke UP, 2015) is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla …
Caribbean Studies
February 12, 2023
World War II Camps in Jamaica
Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War
Suzanne Francis-Brown
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Ari Barbalat
Between 1939 and 1947, the Caribbean island of Jamaica--then a British colony--was haven or detention centre for thousands of displaced Europeans; an often under-recognized contribution to the Allied war effort. A civilian …
Economic and Business History
February 9, 2023
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration
Andreas E. Feldmann, Xochitl Bada, and Jorge Durand
Hosted by
Javier Mejia
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration (Routledge, 2022) offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the …
General History
February 5, 2023
Inventing the Third World
In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South
Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman
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Elisa Prosperetti
What is the Third World? The term has essentially been scrubbed from our collective consciousness. What once used to be something concrete seems to have vanished into thin air. Today …
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