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Latin American Studies
Latin American Studies
April 19, 2021
Fugitive Freedom
The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico
William B. Taylor
Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez
Though poverty and vagrancy as social phenomena greatly preoccupied authorities of Colonial Mexico, the social and individual lives of vagabonds and strangers of Spanish American early modernity remain elusive to the historian. In his …
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Literature
April 16, 2021
An Indian Among Los Indígenas
Ursula Pike
Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
The western travel narrative genre has a history long tied to voyeurism and conquest. A way to see the world—and its many unique people and places—through the eyes of mostly …
Latin American Studies
April 13, 2021
Just Immigration in the Americas
A Feminist Account
Allison B. Wolf
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
Ethnographic Marginalia
April 8, 2021
New Ethnographies of the Global South
In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistant professor of sociology at the University of …
Anthropology
April 6, 2021
Cartographies of Youth Resistance
Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico
Maurice Rafael Magaña
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant …
Latino Studies
March 30, 2021
Unforgetting
A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
Roberto Lovato
Hosted by David-James Gonzales
The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens, he …
World Affairs
March 29, 2021
Trouble of the World
Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital
Zach Sell
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Mississippi River, the abolition of slavery in …
Caribbean Studies
March 26, 2021
Haiti's Paper War
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954
Chelsea Stieber
Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of …
History
March 22, 2021
As If She Were Free
A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Erica Ball and Tatiana Seijas
Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
Edited by Drs. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, As if She Were Free (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a collective biography of African and African-descended women across …
Native American Studies
March 22, 2021
La Raza Cosmética
Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Natasha Varner
Hosted by Annabel LaBrecque
A close friend and muse of many of postrevolutionary Mexico's greatest artists, Luz Jiménez's likeness appears across Mexico City in the form of painting, photography, and sculpture. Jiménez's ubiquity has …
Ethnographic Marginalia
March 17, 2021
Police Reform in Argentina
A Discussion with Leslie MacColman
Leslie MacColman
Hosted by Alexander Diamond
This episode of Ethnographic Marginalia features Dr. Leslie MacColman, a Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology at The Ohio State University who studies crime and policing in Latin America. Leslie explains how …
Political Science
March 15, 2021
The Far Right Today
Cas Mudde
Hosted by Susan Liebell
What is the difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president? Why should we understand Trump as part of a dangerous “fourth wave” of …
Latin American Studies
March 15, 2021
Atmósfera de plomo
las declaraciones de estado de sitio en la Primera República Brasileña
Antonio Gasparetto Júnior
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In this book, Antonio Gasparetto studies in detail the legal history of the state of exception during the First Republic in Brazil (1889-1930). Atmósfera de plomo: las declaraciones de estado …
History
March 12, 2021
Islanders and Empire
Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690
Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Hosted by Grant Kleiser
Dr. Juan José Ponce Vázquez's new book, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 (Cambridge UP, 2020) tracks the importance of smuggling to the society, economy, and politics of the island …
Anthropology
March 9, 2021
Passing
Two Publics in a Mexican Border City
Rihan Yeh
Hosted by Amir Lehman
Tijuana is the largest of Mexico’s northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States’ dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California …
Anthropology
February 22, 2021
Streetwalking
LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Ana-Maurine Lara
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara examines the dominant modes of power that seek to suppress LGBTQ lives and …
Latino Studies
February 18, 2021
Decolonizing Diasporas
Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez
Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020), uses peripheralized (5) novels, visual/sonic works, poetry, essays …
Chinese Studies
February 17, 2021
In China's Wake
How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South
Nicholas Jepson
Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
From 2002 to 2013, China’s rapid economic growth caused a boom in the prices of commodities—particularly of metals, fuel, and soybeans. According to political economist Dr. Nick Jepson, the commodity …
History
February 11, 2021
Inca Apocalypse
The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
R. Alan Covey
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The arrival in 1532 of a small group of Spanish conquistadores at the Andean town of Cajamarca launched one of the most dramatic – and often misunderstood – events in …
Latin American Studies
February 11, 2021
Revolution in Development
Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy
Christy Thornton
Hosted by Rachel Newman
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (University of California Press, 2021) uncovers the surprising influence of post-revolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international economic institutions. Drawing …
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