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Caribbean Studies May 24, 2022

Daylight Come

Diana McCaulay

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling trial. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day and …

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Latin American Studies May 18, 2022

Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America

A Tribute to Berta Cáceres

Irune del Rio Gabiola

Hosted by Elize Mazadiego
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed …
Latin American Studies May 10, 2022

Fictions of Migration

Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia

Lorena Cuya Gavilano

Hosted by Kenneth Sanchez
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Lorena Cuya Gavilano about her interesting new book Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in …
Latin American Studies May 9, 2022

Bad Mexicans

Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022)tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States …
Latin American Studies May 5, 2022

The Religion of Life

Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile

Sarah Walsh

Hosted by Claudia Monterroza Rivera
The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism and eugenics in early twentieth-century Chile. Specifically, it demonstrates …
World Christianity April 28, 2022

The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South

Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism

João B. Chaves

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
João B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin …
Caribbean Studies April 27, 2022

The Lettered Barriada

Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke UP, 2021), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated …
Critical Theory April 27, 2022

Planetary Longings

Mary Louise Pratt

Hosted by Louisa Hann
In Planetary Longings (Duke UP, 2022), eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point …
Burned by Books April 27, 2022

Paradais

Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes

Hosted by Chris Holmes
An interview with Fernanda Melchor, finalist for the International Booker Prize, and author most recently of Paradais (New Directions, 2022). And Sophie Hughes, the English translator of Fernanda’s two novels, and …
Latino Studies April 25, 2022

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jennifer K. Seman’s recent publication offers a brief insight into these …
Anthropology April 22, 2022

Indigenous Dispossession

Housing and Maya Indebtness in Mexico

M. Bianet Castellanos

Hosted by Jolon Timms
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous …
Science, Technology, and Society April 19, 2022

Technology of the Oppressed

Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil

David Nemer

Hosted by Austin Clyde
In Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (MIT Press, 2022), David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of …
Latin American Studies April 15, 2022

Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race

Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru

María Elena García

Hosted by Kenneth Sanchez
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Maria Elena García about her wonderful new book Gastropolitics and the Spectre of Race: Stories of …
Latin American Studies April 13, 2022

Selling Black Brazil

Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia

Anadelia Romo

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia (University of Texas Press, 2022), Anadelia Romo argues that visual images were central to the shift from emulating …
Anthropology April 11, 2022

Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide

A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration

Adrian J Pearce, Paul Heggarty, and David G. Beresford-Jones

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. Because of …
Caribbean Studies April 11, 2022

Haiti Fights Back

The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte

Yveline Alexis

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte (Rutgers University Press, 2021), by Yveline Alexis is the first US study of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who …
Latin American Studies April 7, 2022

The Sword of Luchana

Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879

Adrian Shubert

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Today I spoke to Prof. Adrian Shubert, professor of History at York University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada about his book on the nineteenth century Spanish …
Latin American Studies April 7, 2022

Colonial Kinship

Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay

Shawn Michael Austin

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay (U New Mexico Press, 2020), historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and …
Sociology April 6, 2022

Privilege at Play

Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico

Hugo Ceron-Anaya

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2019) is a book about inequalities, social hierarchies, and privilege in contemporary Mexico. Based on ethnographic research …
Anthropology April 5, 2022

Making Livable Worlds

Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice

Hilda Lloréns

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pommeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities …