About Reighan Gillam

Reighan Gillam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research examines the ways in which Afro-Brazilian media producers foment anti-racist visual politics through their image creations. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press).

NBN Episodes hosted by Reighan:

Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)

February 21, 2024

Sito

Laurence Ralph
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nin…

Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2024)

February 7, 2024

Emergent Quilombos

Bryce Henson
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population's A…

Paul Stoller, "Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times" (Cornell UP, 2023)

February 3, 2024

Wisdom from the Edge

Paul Stoller
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Wisdom From the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times (Cornell University Press, 2023) describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to t…

Nessette Falu, "Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2023)

December 24, 2023

Unseen Flesh

Nessette Falu
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2023) Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil d…

Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

December 21, 2023

The Afro-Latino Memoir

Trent Masiki
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki…

Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

November 1, 2023

The Chase and Ruins

Sharony Green
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked by…

Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)

October 27, 2023

Crossing Waters

Marisel C. Moreno
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary li…

Damani Partridge, "Blackness As a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin" (U California Press, 2022)

September 24, 2023

Blackness As a Universal Claim

Damani Partridge
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In this bold and provocative new book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin (University o…

Tamara J. Walker, "Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad" (Crown, 2023)

August 4, 2023

Beyond the Shores

Tamara J. Walker
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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Part historical exploration, part travel memoir, Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad (Crown, 2023) reveals poignant histories of …

Anthony Russell Jerry, "Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica" (UP of Florida, 2023)

July 26, 2023

Blackness in Mexico

Anthony Russell Jerry
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (UP o…

Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)

July 17, 2023

Built from the Fire

Victor Luckerson
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center o…

Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)

July 16, 2023

In Our Shoes

Brianna Holt
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America (Plume Books, 2023) uses pop culture a…

Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)

July 9, 2023

Surviving the Sanctuary City

Tina Shrestha
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are naviga…

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

June 4, 2023

The Politics of Survival

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The media…

Samantha Nogueira Joyce, "Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities" (Lexington Books, 2022)

May 22, 2023

Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas

Samantha Nogueira Joyce
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities (Lexington Books, 2022), Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations…

Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)

May 13, 2023

When Forests Run Amok

Daniel Ruiz-Serna
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows …

Mauro Porto, "Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

May 1, 2023

Mirrors of Whiteness

Mauro Porto
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023), Mauro P. Porto examines t…

Cinegogía: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema

April 14, 2023

Cinegogía

Bridget Franco
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Cinegogía is an open-access website devoted to the teaching and study of Latin American cinemas. Bridget Franco, an associate professor of Spanish at …

Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

March 1, 2023

Joy and Pain

Damien M. Sojoyner
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and …

Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)

February 13, 2023

From Savage to Negro

Lee D. Baker
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

On today’s podcast we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Dr. Lee D. Baker’s book From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Co…

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)

January 24, 2023

Undocumented Motherhood

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the ter…

Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

January 17, 2023

Voices of the Race

Paulina Laura Alberto, George Reid Andrews, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hundr…

Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)

November 29, 2022

Permanent Markers

Sarah Abel
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the …

Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)

October 24, 2022

Amphibious Subjects

Kwame Edwin Otu
Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (University of California Press, 2022) is an ethnograph…