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Latin American Studies
Jewish Studies June 25, 2021

Polacos in Argentina

Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture

Mariusz Kalczewiak

Hosted by Max Kaiser
In Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2020), Dr. Mariusz Kałczewiak, senior research associate and lecturer in the …

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History June 17, 2021

Laboring for the State

Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971

Rachel Hynson

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, in Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery June 15, 2021

Narcosubmarines

Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs

Javier Guerrero C.

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Javier Guerrero's "Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs" (Palgrave, 2020) is about the encounters of Colombian drug smugglers and the Colombian Navy, both in the …
Celebration Studies June 9, 2021

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Cécile Fromont

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Edited by Dr. Cécile Fromont, Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Penn State University Press, 2019), demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic …
Art June 9, 2021

Another Aesthetics Is Possible

Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War

Jennifer Ponce de León

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labour …
Music May 28, 2021

Bossa Mundo

Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries

K. E. Goldschmitt

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries (Oxford University Press, 2020) takes on the circulation of Brazilian music in the Global North since the 1960s. The challenge faced by Brazilian …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2021

Forging Ties, Forging Passports

Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora

Devi Mays

Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2020) is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states …
Latino Studies May 24, 2021

The Shadow of El Centro

A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity

Jessica Ordaz

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San Diego and Yuma, Arizona, has made it …
Latino Studies May 19, 2021

Homeland

Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900

Aaron E. Sánchez

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Ethnic Mexicans living in the United States have always struggled to understand their position within the fabric of the nation-state. The groups that fall under the banner of “ethnic Mexican,” …
Political Science May 13, 2021

Cruelty As Citizenship

How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy

Cristina Beltrán

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Cristina Beltrán has written a thoughtful and interrogating analysis of the concept of citizenship, particularly in the United States, and how the history of the United States as a country …
Latin American Studies May 12, 2021

Ganhadores

A greve negra de 1857 na Bahia

João José Reis

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Um retrato original da Bahia no século XIX, num livro cheio de movimento e vozes, sobretudo da gente negra. Em Ganhadores: A Greve Negra de 1857 na Bahia (Companhia das Letras, 2019) …
Latin American Studies May 12, 2021

Staging Frontiers

The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay

William Garrett Acree

Hosted by Candela Marini
Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American best sellers. But when these  stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural …
Latin American Studies May 10, 2021

The Conquered

Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity

Eleni Kefala

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Eleni Kefala's book The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021) probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of …
Latin American Studies May 6, 2021

The Spirit of Hispanism

Commerce, Culture, and Identity Across the Atlantic, 1875-1936

Diana Arbaiza

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement between Spain and Latin America. Not only was this movement envisioned as …
Economic and Business History May 3, 2021

Black Market Capital

Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City

Andrew Konove

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez
In Black Market Capital Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City (University of California Press, 2018), Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth …
Mobilities and Methods May 3, 2021

Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Bret Gustafson

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in …
Latin American Studies April 23, 2021

Uncertain Citizenship

Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile

Megan Ryburn

Hosted by Elena McGrath
Megan Ryburn’s Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile (University of California Press, 2018) is a multi-sited ethnography of citizenship practices of Bolivian migrants in Chile. The book asks …
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 …
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 …