New Books in Caribbean Studies
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Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
38 mins; March 31, 2026
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson
48 mins; March 27, 2026
Erica Morawski, "Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
44 mins; March 26, 2026
Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)
57 mins; March 22, 2026
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)
48 mins; March 11, 2026
Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
50 mins; March 04, 2026
Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
44 mins; February 23, 2026
Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
95 hours 56 mins; February 22, 2026
Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)
48 mins; February 22, 2026
Darién J. Davis, "'Black Orpheus' and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
55 mins; February 18, 2026
David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)
63 hours 14 mins; February 18, 2026
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 06, 2026
Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
77 hours 31 mins; February 03, 2026
Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 27 mins; February 01, 2026
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
71 hours 10 mins; January 27, 2026
Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
44 mins; January 20, 2026
Reena Goldthree, "Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2025)
52 mins; January 16, 2026
Johanna Lukate, "(Dis)Entangled: Black Hair, Race, and Identity" (Coronet, 2025)
45 mins; January 16, 2026
Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)
57 mins; January 14, 2026
Anita Gonzalez, "Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
25 mins; January 09, 2026
Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)
47 mins; December 25, 2025
Karma F. Frierson, "Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz" (U California Press, 2025)
49 mins; December 23, 2025
José Blanco F. and Raúl J. Vázquez-López, "Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
60 hours 14 mins; December 07, 2025
Beau Cleland, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
63 hours 38 mins; December 07, 2025
Philip Janzen, "An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2025)
55 mins; December 06, 2025
Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2024)
40 mins; November 26, 2025
Renata Keller, "The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)
37 mins; November 25, 2025
Ronald Angelo Johnson, "Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2025)
82 hours 10 mins; November 13, 2025
James Scorer, "Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame" (U Texas Press, 2024)
41 mins; November 04, 2025
Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
41 mins; October 27, 2025
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
65 hours 50 mins; October 19, 2025
Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)
53 mins; October 19, 2025
I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
56 mins; September 18, 2025
Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
67 hours 48 mins; September 12, 2025
Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
45 mins; August 31, 2025
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 21, 2025
Disco's "Latin Tinge"
61 hours 2 mins; August 19, 2025
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
48 mins; August 09, 2025
César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
42 mins; August 04, 2025
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; July 30, 2025
Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025)
51 mins; July 11, 2025
Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
69 hours 21 mins; July 08, 2025
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
60 hours 21 mins; June 30, 2025
Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025)
85 hours 12 mins; June 25, 2025
Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)
59 mins; June 16, 2025
Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025)
91 hours 12 mins; May 29, 2025
M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
56 mins; May 20, 2025
Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
46 mins; May 16, 2025
William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
47 mins; May 10, 2025
Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024)
88 hours 52 mins; April 24, 2025
Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
51 mins; April 20, 2025
Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
55 mins; April 03, 2025
Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
68 hours 10 mins; March 31, 2025
Dariel U. González García, "Dos miradas: Israel and Judaism in Puerto Rico" (2024)
70 hours 25 mins; March 30, 2025
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)
62 hours 13 mins; March 19, 2025
Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean
51 mins; February 28, 2025
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
52 mins; February 23, 2025
Lindsay O'Neill, "The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
47 mins; February 21, 2025
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
55 mins; February 19, 2025
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
61 hours 2 mins; February 10, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
66 hours 25 mins; January 23, 2025
Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)
33 mins; January 23, 2025
Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
44 mins; January 13, 2025
Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024)
82 hours 23 mins; January 12, 2025
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
42 mins; January 07, 2025
Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)
43 mins; January 04, 2025
Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
64 hours 25 mins; December 31, 2024
Richard Blakemore, "Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
94 hours 57 mins; December 30, 2024
Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)
58 mins; December 22, 2024
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
41 mins; December 20, 2024
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
71 hours 23 mins; December 12, 2024
Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)
54 mins; December 10, 2024
Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025)
67 hours 49 mins; December 08, 2024
Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)
33 mins; December 04, 2024
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
64 hours 44 mins; November 19, 2024
Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
71 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2024
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
57 mins; October 28, 2024
Jane Lydon, "Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?" (Routledge, 2021)
88 hours 27 mins; October 15, 2024
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
56 mins; October 07, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; September 30, 2024
Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
84 hours 8 mins; September 21, 2024
Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
55 mins; September 17, 2024
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
58 mins; September 13, 2024
Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
63 hours 25 mins; September 10, 2024
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
42 mins; September 07, 2024
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)
50 mins; August 17, 2024
Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)
61 hours 11 mins; July 31, 2024
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto, "Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s" (Routledge, 2024)
52 mins; July 22, 2024
Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
84 hours 14 mins; July 14, 2024
Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
65 hours 34 mins; July 13, 2024
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)
63 hours 14 mins; July 04, 2024
Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
53 mins; July 03, 2024
Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)
64 hours 31 mins; July 02, 2024
Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
64 hours 40 mins; June 22, 2024
John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021)
74 hours 22 mins; June 16, 2024
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; June 12, 2024
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
63 hours 24 mins; June 11, 2024
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
59 mins; June 09, 2024
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
45 mins; June 06, 2024
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; May 27, 2024