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Darts & Letters August 11, 2022

Modifying Maize

How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)

Hosted by Gordon Katic
This is part 1 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino …

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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 …
Latin American Studies July 28, 2022

Region Out of Place

The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968

Courtney J. Campbell

Hosted by Brad Wright
The Brazilian Northeast has long been a marginalized region with a complex relationship to national identity. It is often portrayed as impoverished, backward, and rebellious, yet traditional and culturally authentic …
Women's History July 26, 2022

Cacicas

The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825

Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and …
Latin American Studies July 15, 2022

Loss and Wonder at the World’s End

Laura A. Ogden

Hosted by Elize Mazadiego
In this podcast Laura A. Ogden, cultural anthropologist at Dartmouth College, introduces her beautifully crafted book Loss and Wonder at the World's End (Duke University Press, 2021). In Loss and Wonder at the …
Anthropology July 13, 2022

Second-Class Daughters

Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
A legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil is home to the largest number of African descendants outside Africa and the greatest number of domestic workers in the world. Drawing …
Latin American Studies July 1, 2022

Embodying Modernity

Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body

Daniel Silva

Hosted by Patricio Simonetto
Daniel Silva’s Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022) examines the current boom of fitness culture in Brazil in the context of the …
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 …
Latin American Studies July 1, 2022

Bedlam in the New World

A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment

Christina Ramos

Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
In Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment (UNC Press, 2022), Christina Ramos tells us the story of Mexico city’s oldest public institution for …
National Security June 27, 2022

Proscribing Peace

How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations

Sophie Haspeslagh

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Proscribing Peace: How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations (Manchester UP, 2021), Dr. Sophie Haspeslagh offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. With …
Latin American Studies June 24, 2022

The Condor Trials

Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America

Francesca Lessa

Hosted by Kenneth Sanchez
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Studies podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Dr Francesca Lessa about her interesting new book The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and …
Anthropology June 10, 2022

Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela

Moises Lino e Silva

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press, 2022) is a mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of …
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 …
Middle Eastern Studies June 9, 2022

Argentina in the Global Middle East

Lily Pearl Balloffet

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere's history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine residents was …
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 …
Mobilities and Methods June 7, 2022

Visualizing Black Lives

Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media

Reighan Gillam

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in …
On Religion June 3, 2022

On Santa Muerte

A Discussion with Andrew Chesnut

Andrew Chesnut

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Andrew Chesnut earned his Ph.D degree in Latin American History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and joined the History Department faculty at the University of …
Latino Studies June 3, 2022

Brown Church

Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

Robert Chao Romero

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American …
Latin American Studies June 2, 2022

Looking for Alicia

The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel

Marc Raboy

Hosted by Candela Marini
The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behind It started with a coincidence--when Marc Raboy happened to discover that he shared …
Anthropology June 1, 2022

Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela

Moisés Lino e Silva

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people …