New Books in Caribbean Studies

Marshall Poe

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Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies

Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)

Jun 16 • 1h 3m

Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025)

May 29 • 1h 31m

M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

May 20 • 58m

Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

May 17 • 48m

William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

May 10 • 47m

Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024)

Apr 24 • 1h 32m

Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Apr 3 • 57m

Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 31 • 1h 11m

Dariel U. González García, "Dos miradas: Israel and Judaism in Puerto Rico" (2024)

Mar 30 • 1h 13m

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)

Mar 19 • 1h 2m

Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean

Feb 28 • 52m

Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)

Feb 23 • 54m

Lindsay O'Neill, "The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

Feb 21 • 49m

Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Feb 19 • 57m

Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)

Feb 10 • 1h 4m

Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)

Jan 23 • 34m

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

Jan 23 • 1h 9m

Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jan 13 • 46m

Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 12 • 1h 25m

Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)

Jan 7 • 44m

Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 7m

Richard Blakemore, "Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 38m

Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)

Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 0m

Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Dec 20, 2024 • 43m

Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 14m

Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024 • 56m

Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025)

Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 10m

Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)

Dec 4, 2024 • 35m

Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)

Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 7m

Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 13m

Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)

Oct 28, 2024 • 59m

Jane Lydon, "Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?" (Routledge, 2021)

Oct 15, 2024 • 1h 30m

Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)

Oct 7, 2024 • 58m

Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Sep 30, 2024 • 58m

Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Sep 21, 2024 • 1h 26m

Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Sep 17, 2024 • 57m

Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)

Sep 13, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Sep 10, 2024 • 1h 5m

Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)

Sep 7, 2024 • 44m

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)

Aug 17, 2024 • 52m

Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)

Jul 31, 2024 • 1h 3m

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto, "Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s" (Routledge, 2024)

Jul 22, 2024 • 54m

Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)

Jul 22, 2024 • 38m

Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)

Jul 14, 2024 • 1h 27m

Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jul 13, 2024 • 1h 7m

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jul 4, 2024 • 1h 3m

Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jul 3, 2024 • 53m

Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)

Jul 2, 2024 • 1h 4m

Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 4m

John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021)

Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 14m

Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)

Jun 12, 2024 • 51m

Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)

Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 3m

Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Jun 9, 2024 • 59m

Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)

Jun 6, 2024 • 45m

Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)

May 27, 2024 • 1h 4m

Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin, "Race and Transnationalism in the Americas" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

May 22, 2024 • 39m

Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 17, 2024 • 40m

Maria Cristina Garcia, "State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change" (UNC Press, 2022)

May 12, 2024 • 50m

Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, "Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States" (UNC Press, 2023)

May 7, 2024 • 1h 27m

Mateo Jarquín, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024)

May 4, 2024 • 33m

Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021)

Apr 29, 2024 • 1h 6m

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Apr 16, 2024 • 44m

Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)

Apr 14, 2024 • 41m

Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)

Apr 8, 2024 • 58m

Adele Oliver, "Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill" (404 Ink, 2023)

Apr 7, 2024 • 48m

Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 11m

126 E. G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)

Apr 4, 2024 • 37m

Erin L. Durban, "The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 3m

Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)

Mar 28, 2024 • 42m

Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 35m

Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War" (UNC Press, 2019)

Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 10m

Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 5m

Mirelsie Velazquez, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 1m

Pablo Alonso González, "Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation" (UP of Florida, 2018)

Feb 16, 2024 • 51m

Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)

Feb 14, 2024 • 1h 5m

The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)

Feb 1, 2024 • 47m

Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 15m

Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean" (U California Press, 2023)

Jan 21, 2024 • 56m

Gustav Cederlof, "The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba" (U California Press, 2023)

Jan 15, 2024 • 48m

Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)

Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 1m

Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 0m

Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 55m

Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)

Dec 27, 2023 • 50m

Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Dec 26, 2023 • 36m

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

Dec 21, 2023 • 35m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist

Dec 10, 2023 • 52m

Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, "An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

Dec 8, 2023 • 49m

Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Nov 28, 2023 • 42m

Saran Stewart et al., "Each One Teach One: Parental Involvement and Family Engagement in Jamaica's Education System" (U West Indies Press, 2022)

Nov 25, 2023 • 1h 12m

Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)

Nov 13, 2023 • 49m

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 48m

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

Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 15m

Lucy Swanson, "The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

Oct 25, 2023 • 52m

Charles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury, "Transnational French Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

Oct 24, 2023 • 1h 3m

Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez, "Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean" (Routledge, 2023)

Oct 23, 2023 • 45m

Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 2m

Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)

Oct 19, 2023 • 39m

Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)

Oct 18, 2023 • 53m

John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Oct 15, 2023 • 57m

Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)

Oct 15, 2023 • 1h 17m

Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture" (U Florida Press, 2023)

Oct 15, 2023 • 40m

Lisandro Pérez, "The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga" (NYU Press, 2023)

Oct 13, 2023 • 59m

Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

Oct 13, 2023 • 1h 10m

Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)

Oct 4, 2023 • 1h 38m

Christian Krohn-Hansen, "Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Sep 29, 2023 • 1h 2m

Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 14m

Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)

Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 18m

Kristin Surak, "The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Sep 24, 2023 • 1h 5m

Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)

Sep 18, 2023 • 1h 1m

Oscar Webber, "Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Sep 17, 2023 • 1h 1m

Charlotte Lydia Riley, "Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain " (Penguin, 2023)

Sep 15, 2023 • 46m

A Better Way to Buy Books

Sep 12, 2023 • 32m

Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)

Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 25m

Jennifer Cearns, "Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange" (UP of Florida, 2023)

Aug 20, 2023 • 58m

Rebecca Hope Dirksen, "After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 29m

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 55m

Sarah E. Vaughn, "Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation" (Duke UP, 2022)

Jul 29, 2023 • 1h 2m

Margaret M. Power, "Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jul 29, 2023 • 55m

Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Jul 16, 2023 • 1h 20m

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, "Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds" (U Texas Press, 2023)

May 30, 2023 • 38m

Christina Gerhardt, "Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean" (U California Press, 2023)

May 23, 2023 • 48m

Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

May 12, 2023 • 52m

Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)

Apr 28, 2023 • 33m

Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)

Apr 19, 2023 • 44m

Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin, "World War II and the Caribbean" (U West Indies Press, 2017)

Apr 17, 2023 • 58m

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

Apr 14, 2023 • 57m

Laura Arnold Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Apr 5, 2023 • 50m

Sudha Rajagopalan, "Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India" (Routledge, 2023)

Apr 4, 2023 • 41m

Charles Price, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)

Apr 4, 2023 • 56m

Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 3m

David Lester and Marcus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2023)

Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 7m

Rebecca Herman, "Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Mar 29, 2023 • 42m

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Juliana Lamy, "You Were Watching from the Sand" (Red Hen Press, 2023)

Mar 14, 2023 • 38m

Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period" (U The West Indies Press, 2019)

Mar 9, 2023 • 2h 4m

Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Mar 6, 2023 • 1h 9m

Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)

Mar 4, 2023 • 1h 43m

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Mar 4, 2023 • 38m

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Feb 27, 2023 • 1h 18m

Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)

Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 0m

Adrian Fraser, "The 1935 Riots in St Vincent: From Riots to Adult Suffrage" (U West Indies Press, 2016)

Feb 25, 2023 • 2h 21m

Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)

Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 40m

Helen Yaffe, "We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World" (Yale UP, 2020)

Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 51m

Freddy Prestol Castillo, "You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot" (Duke UP, 2019)

Feb 17, 2023 • 37m

Suzanne Francis-Brown, "World War II Camps in Jamaica: Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War" (U West Indies Press, 2022)

Feb 12, 2023 • 1h 46m

Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 53m

Andreas E. Feldmann et al., "The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration" (Routledge, 2022)

Feb 9, 2023 • 1h 7m

Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 2m

Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 14m

A Left Turn? The Politics of Latin America Today

Jan 30, 2023 • 47m

Sharon Milagro Marshall, "Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-century Migration from Barbados" (U West Indies Press, 2016)

Jan 22, 2023 • 32m

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

Jan 17, 2023 • 53m

Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)

Jan 14, 2023 • 59m

Kaiama L. Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke UP, 2021)

Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 0m

Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

Jan 8, 2023 • 1h 29m

Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)

Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 13m

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)

Dec 25, 2022 • 55m

Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 19m

Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)

Dec 16, 2022 • 58m

Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)

Dec 14, 2022 • 43m

Joanna Newman, "Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945" (Berghahn Books, 2019)

Dec 12, 2022 • 1h 6m

Stuart Earle Strange, "Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

Dec 10, 2022 • 1h 34m

Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Nov 28, 2022 • 1h 7m

David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)

Nov 16, 2022 • 55m

On Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism"

Nov 14, 2022 • 45m

Ken Chitwood, "The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean" (Lynn Rienner, 2021)

Nov 11, 2022 • 1h 16m

Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Nov 7, 2022 • 1h 15m

June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)

Nov 7, 2022 • 1h 1m

Christopher Stuart Taylor, "Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians" (Fernwood, 2016)

Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 15m

4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay

Nov 3, 2022 • 49m

Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 1, 2022 • 54m

Mario Nisbett, "The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty" (Lexington Books, 2021)

Oct 29, 2022 • 55m

Rose-Ann Smith, "The Day I Became a Hurricane" (Hooked on Books Jamrock, 2022)

Oct 24, 2022 • 37m

Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)

Oct 24, 2022 • 1h 2m

Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 4m

S. Karly Kehoe, "Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

Oct 7, 2022 • 56m

Ricardo López-Pedreros, "The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies" (Routledge, 2022)

Oct 5, 2022 • 44m

Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Oct 5, 2022 • 32m

Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Sep 30, 2022 • 49m

Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Sep 26, 2022 • 52m

Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)

Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 5m

Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" (Indiana UP, 2019)

Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 1m

Kaysha Corinealdi, "Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2022)

Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 6m

Sarah Craze, "Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star" (Boydell Press, 2022)

Sep 9, 2022 • 58m

Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)

Sep 8, 2022 • 54m

Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)

Aug 31, 2022 • 40m

Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Aug 16, 2022 • 45m

Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin, "The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations" (Routledge, 2022)

Aug 3, 2022 • 45m

Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Aug 2, 2022 • 45m

Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson, "Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices" (U West Indies Press, 2021)

Jul 15, 2022 • 55m

Erin C. MacLeod, "Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2014)

Jul 15, 2022 • 50m

Keith Thomson, "Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune" (Little Brown, 2022)

Jul 13, 2022 • 41m

Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)

Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 4m

Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy

Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 20m

Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gómez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)

Jun 7, 2022 • 1h 7m

Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

May 31, 2022 • 1h 1m

Ashley M. Williard, "Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

May 30, 2022 • 48m

Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)

May 27, 2022 • 51m

Diana McCaulay, "Daylight Come" (Peepal Tree Press, 2020)

May 24, 2022 • 36m

Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

May 13, 2022 • 1h 4m

Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 10, 2022 • 41m

80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)

May 5, 2022 • 50m

Hurricanes

Apr 28, 2022 • 12m

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, "The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)

Apr 27, 2022 • 53m

Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Apr 11, 2022 • 48m

Hilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)

Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 8m

Alison Donnell, "Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Mar 30, 2022 • 27m

Ellen Jones, "Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Mar 29, 2022 • 1h 17m

Tessa Murphy, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 28m

Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)

Feb 21, 2022 • 58m

David Alston, "Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 4m

Mimi Sheller, "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2020)

Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 30m

Micah Alpaugh, "Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 2m

Vincent Joos, "Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 2m

Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)

Feb 2, 2022 • 55m

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa and Rodrigo Quijano, "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)

Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 2m

Kris Sealey, "Creolizing the Nation" (Northwestern UP, 2020)

Jan 10, 2022 • 57m

Laurie R. Lambert, "Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

Jan 6, 2022 • 45m

Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

Jan 5, 2022 • 2h 10m

Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Jan 4, 2022 • 1h 8m

Nicole C. Bourbonnais, "Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Nov 19, 2021 • 52m

James G. Cantres, "Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 17m

Rachel Afi Quinn, "Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Nov 10, 2021 • 56m

Jovan Scott Lewis, "Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Nov 5, 2021 • 58m

Viviana B. MacManus, "Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

Oct 22, 2021 • 57m

J. L. Torres, "Migrations" (LA Review of Books, 2021)

Oct 12, 2021 • 54m

Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 6m

Takkara K. Brunson, "Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2021)

Oct 4, 2021 • 50m

Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Sep 3, 2021 • 57m

Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)

Aug 31, 2021 • 1h 25m

Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)

Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 0m

Michael J. Bustamante, "Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile" (UNC Press, 2021)

Aug 18, 2021 • 1h 21m

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, "Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2021)

Aug 16, 2021 • 56m

Tiffany A. Sippial, "Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary" (UNC Press, 2020)

Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 21m

Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Aug 4, 2021 • 38m

Elizabeth B. Schwall, "Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2021)

Aug 3, 2021 • 56m

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 12m

Catalina M. de Onís, "Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2021)

Jul 7, 2021 • 40m

Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Jul 5, 2021 • 44m

Rocío Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)

Jun 24, 2021 • 1h 10m

Rachel Hynson, "Laboring for the State : Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Jun 17, 2021 • 56m

Cécile Fromont, "Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition" (Penn State, 2019)

Jun 9, 2021 • 52m

Tim Lockley, "Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

May 26, 2021 • 53m

Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)

May 21, 2021 • 1h 22m

Edgardo Meléndez, "Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionary Exiles in Late Nineteenth-Century New York" (Centro Press, 2019)

Apr 30, 2021 • 45m

Adom Getachew, "Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Apr 26, 2021 • 46m

Allison B. Wolf, "Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 15m

Julio Capó Jr., "Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940" (UNC Press, 2017)

Apr 12, 2021 • 53m

Brad A. Jones, "Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Apr 9, 2021 • 1h 10m

Chelsea Stieber, "Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954" (NYU Press, 2020)

Mar 26, 2021 • 47m

Erica Ball et al., "As if She Were Free" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Mar 22, 2021 • 1h 12m

Juan José Ponce Vázquez, "Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Mar 12, 2021 • 50m

Njoroge M. Njoroge, "Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)

Mar 11, 2021 • 46m

Deborah A. Thomas, "Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair" (Duke UP, 2019)

Feb 26, 2021 • 1h 13m

Ana-Maurine Lara, "Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Feb 22, 2021 • 1h 3m

Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)

Feb 18, 2021 • 1h 9m

Rose Muzio, "Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York" (SUNY, 2017)

Feb 16, 2021 • 1h 3m

Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Feb 16, 2021 • 41m

Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)

Feb 11, 2021 • 51m

Ray Allen, "Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Feb 9, 2021 • 1h 3m

Andrew Grant Wood, "The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

Jan 27, 2021 • 1h 8m

James F. Siekmeier, "Latin American Nationalism: Identity in a Globalizing World" (Bloomsbury, 2017)

Jan 26, 2021 • 1h 5m

Vanessa Mongey, "Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Jan 20, 2021 • 1h 1m

Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Jan 18, 2021 • 1h 14m

Sharika D. Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making" (UNC Press, 2020)

Jan 12, 2021 • 1h 8m

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History" (Beacon Press, 1995)

Dec 31, 2020 • 1h 31m

Marjoleine Kars, "Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast" (New Press, 2020)

Dec 29, 2020 • 44m

Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" (UNC Press, 2020)

Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 19m

Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico" (U Illinois Press, 2015)

Dec 23, 2020 • 1h 14m

Anne Garland Mahler, "From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity" (Duke UP, 2018)

Dec 22, 2020 • 34m

Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Dec 8, 2020 • 59m

Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Nov 24, 2020 • 53m

Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)

Nov 18, 2020 • 42m

Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution" (NYU Press, 2016)

Nov 10, 2020 • 1h 28m

Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

Nov 6, 2020 • 43m

Dylon Robbins, "Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Oct 14, 2020 • 55m

Edgardo Pérez Morales, "No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions" (Vanderbilt UP, 2018)

Sep 23, 2020 • 1h 13m

Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (UPenn Press, 2004)

Sep 10, 2020 • 1h 35m

Jennifer L. Morgan, "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

Sep 9, 2020 • 1h 18m

Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)

Sep 2, 2020 • 44m

Brad Walters, "The Greening of Saint Lucia: Economic Development and Environmental Change in the West Indies" (UWI Press, 2019)

Sep 2, 2020 • 1h 8m

Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Aug 28, 2020 • 1h 36m

Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings" (McFarland, 2019)

Aug 26, 2020 • 51m

F. Henry and D. Plaza, "Carnival Is Woman: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas. (UP of Mississippi, 2019)

Aug 21, 2020 • 1h 14m

Amelia Moore, "Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas" (U California Press, 2019)

Aug 21, 2020 • 45m

Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince" (U California Press, 2019)

Aug 4, 2020 • 1h 2m

Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas: Empires and Legal Networks" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jul 30, 2020 • 1h 1m

Katherine Zien, "Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone" (Rutgers UP, 2017)

Jul 24, 2020 • 1h 5m

Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Jul 22, 2020 • 1h 5m

Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Jul 13, 2020 • 45m

Ismael Garcia-Colon, "Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms" (U California Press, 2020)

Jul 10, 2020 • 26m

Hanna Garth, "Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Jul 9, 2020 • 48m

Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)

Jul 7, 2020 • 1h 3m

A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Jun 24, 2020 • 50m

Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean" (UNC Press, 2016)

Jun 23, 2020 • 56m

Robert C. McGreevey, "Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration" (Cornell UP, 2018)

Jun 15, 2020 • 49m

Cristina Soriano, "Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela" (UNM Press, 2018)

Jun 10, 2020 • 1h 6m

Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2020)

Jun 3, 2020 • 56m

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

Jun 2, 2020 • 2h 0m

Monique A. Bedasse, "Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization" (UNC Press, 2017)

Jun 1, 2020 • 1h 1m

Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)

May 27, 2020 • 47m

Louis A. Pérez, "Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2019)

May 19, 2020 • 56m

Natasha J. Lightfoot, "Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2015)

May 14, 2020 • 1h 13m

Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad" (UNC Press, 2019)

May 8, 2020 • 56m

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Apr 28, 2020 • 59m

Pankaj Jain, "Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora" (Routledge, 2019)

Apr 15, 2020 • 1h 14m

Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Apr 7, 2020 • 1h 2m

Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)

Mar 30, 2020 • 52m

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

Feb 25, 2020 • 42m

Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indies, 2018)

Feb 13, 2020 • 1h 19m

Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou" (Duke UP, 2019)

Feb 4, 2020 • 44m

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Feb 3, 2020 • 1h 2m

K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)

Jan 30, 2020 • 39m

Gregory P. Downs, "The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jan 29, 2020 • 1h 12m

Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jan 22, 2020 • 1h 10m

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, "Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops" (Routledge, 2019)

Jan 9, 2020 • 46m

Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti" (U Penn Press, 2019)

Dec 24, 2019 • 58m

Lennox Honychurch, "In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica" (UP Mississippi, 2017)

Dec 12, 2019 • 51m

Luis Martínez-Fernández, "Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2018)

Dec 10, 2019 • 1h 11m

Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

Dec 3, 2019 • 57m

Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

Nov 26, 2019 • 56m

Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Nov 22, 2019 • 1h 1m

David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640" (UNC Press, 2016)

Nov 18, 2019 • 1h 1m

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Nov 3, 2019 • 38m

J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

Oct 24, 2019 • 32m

Ann Elias, "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity" (Duke UP, 2019)

Oct 24, 2019 • 45m

Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)

Oct 15, 2019 • 34m

Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, "Black British Migrants in Cuba" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Oct 9, 2019 • 52m

Cécile Vidal, "Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society" (UNC Press, 2019)

Oct 8, 2019 • 58m

Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, "Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm" (Haymarket, 2019)

Oct 4, 2019 • 1h 1m

Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad" (UNC Press, 2019)

Sep 23, 2019 • 45m

Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela" (UNC Press, 2018)

Aug 28, 2019 • 52m

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Aug 27, 2019 • 1h 29m

Sam Erman, "Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Jul 25, 2019 • 56m

Carlos Garrido Castellano, "Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

Jul 17, 2019 • 36m

Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957" (NYU Press, 2017)

Jun 27, 2019 • 51m

Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America" (U Texas Press, 2019)

Jun 25, 2019 • 1h 1m

Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)

Jun 18, 2019 • 1h 5m

Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jun 14, 2019 • 55m

Melissa Johnson, "Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Apr 26, 2019 • 47m

Brooke Newman, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2018)

Mar 27, 2019 • 1h 5m

Allison Coffelt, "Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip Through Haiti" (Lanternfish Press, 2018)

Mar 20, 2019 • 58m

Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing

Mar 19, 2019 • 32m

Andrew T. Fede, "Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World" (U Georgia Press, 2017)

Mar 18, 2019 • 54m

César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

Mar 15, 2019 • 43m

Bianca Williams, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism" (Duke UP, 2018)

Feb 15, 2019 • 43m

Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris, "Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

Jan 24, 2019 • 1h 0m

Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

Jan 10, 2019 • 1h 30m

McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)

Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 4m

Ruma Chopra, “Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone” (Yale UP, 2018)

Nov 21, 2018 • 39m

Antonio Sotomayor, “The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)

Sep 20, 2018 • 1h 7m

Megan Raby, “American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science” (UNC Press, 2017)

Sep 18, 2018 • 39m

David García, “Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins” (Duke UP, 2017)

Sep 5, 2018 • 47m

Teishan A. Latner, “Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992” (UNC Press, 2018)

Sep 4, 2018 • 36m

Peter James Hudson, “Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Aug 28, 2018 • 1h 4m

Molly Warsh, “American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700” (UNC Press, 2018)

Aug 7, 2018 • 52m

Vanessa Valdés, “Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg” (SUNY Press, 2018)

Aug 3, 2018 • 1h 7m

Pablo Gomez, “The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic” (UNC Press, 2017).

Jul 24, 2018 • 53m

Matthew Casey, “Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Jul 11, 2018 • 45m

Londa Schiebinger, “Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford UP, 2017)

Jun 27, 2018 • 42m

Sally and Richard Price, “Saamaka Dreaming” (Duke UP, 2017)

May 28, 2018 • 45m

Matthew Karp, “This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at The Helm of American Foreign Policy” (Harvard UP, 2016)

May 14, 2018 • 1h 8m

David Wanczyk, “Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind” (Swallow Press, 2018)

May 3, 2018 • 42m

Averell Smith, “The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige’s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

Apr 26, 2018 • 52m

Lisa Ze Winters, “The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic” (U Georgia Press, 2016)

Apr 20, 2018 • 38m

Eric T. Jennings, “Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus from the French Caribbean” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Mar 19, 2018 • 54m

Daniel Livesay, “Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833” (UNC Press, 2018)

Mar 16, 2018 • 52m

Mark G. Hanna, “Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570 to 1740” (UNC Press, 2015)

Feb 19, 2018 • 57m

Sasha Turner, “Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

Feb 16, 2018 • 1h 4m

Marlene Daut, “Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism” (Palgrave, 2017)

Feb 6, 2018 • 49m

Paul Ortiz, “An African American and Latinx History of the United States” (Beacon Press, 2017)

Feb 5, 2018 • 1h 2m

Jason Herbeck, “Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean” (Liverpool UP, 2017)

Jan 23, 2018 • 44m

Randy M. Browne, “Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

Jan 8, 2018 • 50m

April Mayes, “The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race and Dominican National Identity” (U. Press of Florida, 2014)

Jan 4, 2018 • 48m

Christopher Church, “Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean” (U. Nebraska Press, 2017)

Dec 18, 2017 • 38m

Jack Greene, “Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait” (UVA Press, 2016)

Nov 29, 2017 • 56m

Amanda Bidnall, “The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965” (Liverpool UP, 2017)

Nov 24, 2017 • 45m

Candace Ward, “Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation” (UVA Press, 2017)

Nov 7, 2017 • 34m

Katherine Paugh, “The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Oct 30, 2017 • 43m

Regine Jean-Charles, “Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary” (OSU Press, 2014)

Oct 26, 2017 • 43m

Ernesto Bassi, “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World” (Duke UP, 2017)

Aug 23, 2017 • 46m

Carla Pestana, “The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire” (Harvard UP, 2017)

Aug 12, 2017 • 1h 3m

“Latino City Part II: An Interview with Llana Barber.”

Jun 27, 2017 • 47m

Dalia Muller, “Cuban Emigres and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World (UNC Press, 2017)

Jun 23, 2017 • 49m

Jorge Duany, “Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jun 13, 2017 • 31m

Michael Neagle, “America’s Forgotten Colony: Cuba’s Isle of Pines” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

May 30, 2017 • 53m

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, “Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico” (Duke UP, 2015)

Apr 12, 2017 • 1h 0m

Anne Eller, “We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom” (Duke UP, 2016)

Apr 12, 2017 • 40m

Glyne Griffith, “The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016)

Mar 7, 2017 • 50m

Raphael Dalleo, “American Imperialisms Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anti-colonialism” (UVa Press, 2016)

Feb 23, 2017 • 31m

Dave Gosse, “Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838” (U. of the West Indies Press, 2012)

Jan 30, 2017 • 34m

Toni Pressley-Sanon, “Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen” (McFarland, 2016)

Jan 18, 2017 • 55m

Jennifer L. Palmer, “Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Dec 17, 2016 • 43m

James Alexander Dun, “Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America” (U. Penn Press, 2016)

Nov 23, 2016 • 59m

Marisa J. Fuentes, “Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Sep 19, 2016 • 46m

John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, “Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Aug 29, 2016 • 50m

Rachel Price, “Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture and the Future of the Island” (Verso, 2015)

Aug 2, 2016 • 48m

Edlie Wong, “Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship” (NYU Press, 2015)

Jun 15, 2016 • 1h 11m

Maria C. Fumagalli, “On the Edge: Writing the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic” (Liverpool UP, 2015)

May 12, 2016 • 35m

Mark Schuller, “Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti” (Rutgers UP, 2016)

Apr 28, 2016 • 50m

Marlene Daut, “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool UP, 2015)

Apr 18, 2016 • 51m

Sarah Phillips Casteel, “Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Apr 18, 2016 • 30m

Heather Kopelson, “Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic” (NYU Press, 2014)

Apr 3, 2016 • 54m

Krista A. Thompson, “Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice” (Duke UP, 2015)

Mar 4, 2016 • 44m

Kennetta H. Perry, “London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race (Oxford UP, 2015)

Mar 2, 2016 • 1h 15m

James Davis, “Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean” (Columbia University Press, 2015)

Feb 24, 2016 • 48m

David Sartorius, “Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba” (Duke UP, 2014)

Feb 22, 2016 • 45m

Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Feb 7, 2016 • 56m

Michelle Chase, “Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962” (UNC Press, 2015)

Feb 3, 2016 • 1h 1m

Carla Freeman, “Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class” (Duke University Press, 2014)

Jan 5, 2016 • 52m

Yarimar Bonilla, “Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

Dec 10, 2015 • 46m

Angelique V. Nixon, “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture” (U Press of Mississippi, 2015)

Dec 2, 2015 • 46m

Malick Ghachem’s “The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

Oct 27, 2015 • 51m

Jason McGraw, “The Work of Recognition: Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship” (UNC Press, 2014)

Oct 20, 2015 • 1h 11m

Juanita De Barros, “Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery” (UNC Press, 2014)

Oct 6, 2015 • 57m

Gregory O’Malley, “Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807” (UNC Press for the Omohundro Institute, 2014)

Sep 26, 2015 • 48m

Jenny Shaw, “Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference” (U of Georgia Press, 2013)

Sep 23, 2015 • 4m

Darren Middleton, “Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction” (Routledge, 2015)

Aug 31, 2015 • 1h 1m

Louis A Perez Jr, “The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past” (U of North Carolina Press, 2013)

Aug 30, 2015 • 57m

William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana” (UNC Press, 2014)

Jul 24, 2015 • 42m

Ada Ferrer, “Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Jul 9, 2015 • 45m

Heather Augustyn, “Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation” (Scarecrow, 2013)

Feb 2, 2015 • 45m

Adam Ewing, “The Age Of Garvey: How A Jamaican Activist Created A Mass Movement And Changed Global Black Politics” (Princeton UP, 2014)

Oct 9, 2014 • 1h 7m

Adrian Burgos, Jr., “Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball” (Hill and Wang, 2011)

Jan 26, 2012 • 54m

Jafari S. Allen, “!Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba” (Duke UP, 2011)

Jan 24, 2012 • 1h 8m

Heather Augustyn, “Ska: An Oral History” (McFarland, 2010)

Sep 5, 2011 • 1h 6m

Howard Jones, “The Bay of Pigs” (Oxford UP, 2008)

Aug 30, 2008 • 1h 4m

Colin Grant, “Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey” (Oxford UP, 2008)

Jun 13, 2008 • 1h 13m

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