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Chinese Studies March 19, 2023

China and Latin America

Development, Agency and Geopolitics

Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez

Hosted by 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 …

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Political Science March 16, 2023

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

Hernán Flom

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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.

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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.

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …