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New Books in Latin American Studies
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, “Black British Migrants in Cuba” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres
Black British Migrants in Cuba
Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 9, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres‘ new book Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) invites readers to enter the world of empire and labor migration in all its complexity. Giovannetti-Torres focuses on the workers and their interactions with British colonial officials,... Read More
Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, “Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm” (Haymarket, 2019)
 Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Haymarket Books, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network October 4, 2019 Jonathan Cortez

Marking the two year anniversary of Hurricane María making landfall in Puerto Rico, the September 2019 release of the anthology Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019) brings together a collective of artists, journalists, and scholars to reflect on the multiple disasters that have... Read More
Tyson Reeder, “Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Tyson Reeder
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots
Free Trade in the Age of Revolution
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 26, 2019 Ryan Tripp

After emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with independence and republicanism. Optimistic about the liberation movements sweeping Latin America, they were particularly eager to disrupt the Portuguese Empire. Anticipating the establishment of a Brazilian republic that they assumed would give them... Read More
Nora Jaffary, “Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905” (UNC Press, 2016)
Nora Jaffary
Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico
Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905
University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society September 26, 2019 Lisette Varón Caravajal

Nora Jaffary’s Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 (University of North Carolina Press. 2016), tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico. Perhaps the most important change analyzed in the book, and... Read More
Claudia Leal, “Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia” (U Arizona Press, 2018)
Claudia Leal
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
University of Arizona Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 23, 2019 Lisette Varon-Carvajal

Claudia Leal’s Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (University of Arizona Press, 2018), narrates the unknown history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia. Not only does Leal centers a region long neglected in histories of Colombia—and... Read More
Miroslava Chávez-García, “Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2018)
Miroslava Chávez-García
Migrant Longing
Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 17, 2019 Derek Litvak

Miroslava Chávez-García is the author of Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2018. Migrant Longing is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border, documenting the intimate lives of ordinary migrants and immigrants. Drawing on a... Read More
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, “Wind and Power in the Anthropocene” (Duke UP, 2019)
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene

Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 10, 2019 Lance C. Thurner

This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene.  Also listen to my individual interviews with Howe and Boyer about their separate volumes, Ecologics and Energopolitics. In this interview, I talk to both authors together about their... Read More