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About Alejandra Bronfman
Alejandra Bronfman is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Latin American, Caribbean & U.S. Latino Studies at SUNY, Albany.
NBN Episodes hosted by Alejandra:
July 22, 2024
Histories of Solitude
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-19…
December 31, 2023
Radiophilia
A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmiss…
December 27, 2023
The Occupation of Havana
Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial …
December 26, 2023
Erased
Many of our presumptions about the Panama Canal Zone are wrong; it was not carved out of uninhabited jungle, the creation of Lake Gatún did not flood …
December 14, 2022
Riff
Philip Nanton's new book Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press, 2022) follows the life and work of Shake Keane, the peripatetic and creative po…
May 24, 2022
Daylight Come
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 …
April 27, 2022
The Lettered Barriada
In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke UP, 2021), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the …
April 11, 2022
Haiti Fights Back
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte (Rutgers University Press, 2021), by Yveline Alexis is the first US study of the politic…
March 30, 2022
Creolized Sexualities
By showing how a wide, and surprising, range of Caribbean writers have contributed to the crafting of a supple and inclusive erotic repertoire across …
February 4, 2022
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships
Vincent Joos' book Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti (Rutgers UP, 2021) explores the failed internationa…
November 19, 2021
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally alter…
March 26, 2021
Haiti's Paper War
Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil …
February 16, 2021
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery
The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil and chronological …
February 11, 2021
The Right to Live in Health
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation, The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindepe…
January 6, 2021
Comrade Sister
My conversation with Laurie Lambert, author of Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2…
November 18, 2020
The Cuban Hustle
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke UP, 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents …
October 14, 2020
Audible Geographies in Latin America
What is the relationship between race, technology and sound? How can we access the ways that Latin Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries thou…
September 2, 2020
The Greening of Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia’s rural landscape is more forested today than at any time in at least seventy-five years (probably much longer). This change is profoundly…
July 13, 2020
Far From Mecca
Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries. Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean (Rutgers University Press, 2020) examines the arch…
June 16, 2020
Beyond Coloniality
Aaron Kamugisha reads CLR James and Sylvia Wynter to glean from them ways to navigate the “beyond” of coloniality. In his new book Beyond Coloniality:…
May 27, 2020
The Yellow Demon of Fever
As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transat…
February 4, 2020
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Duke University Press, 2019), Roberto Strongman reveals the…
January 9, 2020
Aerial Imagination in Cuba
In her new book Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops (Routledge, 2019), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier looks up at the sky, an…
December 12, 2019
In the Forests of Freedom
Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries. Dominica’s unusual history …