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Latin American Studies December 3, 2021

Ascent to Glory

How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

Álvaro Santana-Acuña

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first published in 1967. Today I talked to Alvaro Santana Acuña a sociologist and …

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Novel Dialogue December 2, 2021

Dreaming or Thinking

Cristina Rivera Garza with Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas

Cristina Rivera Garza, Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
ND stages a trialogue this week with MacArthur "Genius" Cristina Rivera Garza and Notre Dame critics Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas. Professor Rivera Garza recalls roadtripping through Mexico in a …
Latin American Studies November 30, 2021

Lula and His Politics of Cunning

From Metalworker to President of Brazil

John D. French

Hosted by Candela Marini
Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He learned to read at …
Latin American Studies November 24, 2021

The Dark Side of Memory

Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching

Tessa Bridal

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
I sat down with award winning author Tessa Bridal to talk about her latest book, The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching, published by Invisible Ink (October …
General History November 23, 2021

Confederates and Comancheros

Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely

Hosted by Mark Klobas
A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle …
African American Studies November 22, 2021

Imagining the Mulatta

Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media

Jasmine Mitchell

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural …
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 …
Food November 18, 2021

Avocado

A Global History

Jeff Miller

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a hundred years. This …
Latin American Studies November 12, 2021

Vendors' Capitalism

A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City

Ingrid Bleynat

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. These publicly owned and operated markets supplied households …
Environmental Studies November 12, 2021

Every Day the River Changes

Four Weeks Down the Magdalena

Jordan Salama

Hosted by Kathryn (Kate) Carpenter
Jordan Salama’s Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena (Catapult Press, 2021) is a travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring …
Latino Studies November 10, 2021

Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas

Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect

Michelle Téllez

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement …
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 …
Catholic Studies November 9, 2021

Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns

The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America

Theresa Keeley

Hosted by Allison Isidore
In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America (Cornell UP, 2020), Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of …
Anthropology November 9, 2021

The Charismatic Gymnasium

Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil

Maria Jose de Abreu

Hosted by Irene Promodh
In The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 2021), Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total …
Latin American Studies November 8, 2021

The Gray Zones of Medicine

Healers and History in Latin America

Diego Armus and Pedro F. Gómez

Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
Edited by Diego Armus and Pablo Gómez, The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press 2021) tell the stories of health practitioners that …
Latin American Studies November 8, 2021

Memories Before the State

Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion

Joseph P. Feldman

Hosted by Kenneth Sanchez
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Podcast, Kenneth Sánchez talked to Joe Feldman about his wonderful book Memories before the State: Postwar Peru and the Place …
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 …
Anthropology November 1, 2021

Becoming Gods

Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

Vania Smith-Oka

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their year of medical training in hospitals to understand how …
Latin American Studies October 26, 2021

La Güera Rodrígue

The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine

Silvia Marina Arrom

Hosted by Rachel Newman
In La Guera Rodriguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine (U California Press, 2021), Silvia Marina Arrom traces the legends of María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y …
Anthropology October 26, 2021

Connected

How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network

Roberto J. González

Hosted by Hussein Mohsen
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network (U California Press, 2020) is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own …