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New Books in Caribbean Studies

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

39 mins; May 22, 2024

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

40 mins; May 17, 2024

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

50 mins; May 12, 2024

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

87 hours 1 min; May 07, 2024

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

33 mins; May 04, 2024

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

64 hours 22 mins; April 29, 2024

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

44 mins; April 16, 2024

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

41 mins; April 14, 2024

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

58 mins; April 08, 2024

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

48 mins; April 06, 2024

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)

71 hours 19 mins; April 05, 2024

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

37 mins; April 04, 2024

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

63 hours 21 mins; April 02, 2024

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

42 mins; March 28, 2024

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

95 hours 56 mins; March 23, 2024

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

70 hours 4 mins; February 25, 2024

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)

65 hours 20 mins; February 23, 2024

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

59 mins; February 17, 2024

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

51 mins; February 16, 2024

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

65 hours 41 mins; February 14, 2024

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

47 mins; February 01, 2024

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

75 hours 18 mins; January 24, 2024

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

56 mins; January 21, 2024

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

48 mins; January 15, 2024

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

61 hours 35 mins; January 09, 2024

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

60 hours 38 mins; January 04, 2024

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

55 mins; January 03, 2024

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

50 mins; December 27, 2023

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

36 mins; December 26, 2023

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

35 mins; December 21, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist

52 mins; December 10, 2023

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

49 mins; December 08, 2023

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

42 mins; November 28, 2023

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

72 hours 31 mins; November 25, 2023

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

48 mins; November 13, 2023

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

48 mins; November 12, 2023

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

75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023

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

49 mins; October 25, 2023

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

62 hours 25 mins; October 24, 2023

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

45 mins; October 23, 2023

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

59 mins; October 21, 2023

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

39 mins; October 19, 2023

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

52 mins; October 18, 2023

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

56 mins; October 15, 2023

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

40 mins; October 15, 2023

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

76 hours 48 mins; October 15, 2023

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

69 hours 58 mins; October 13, 2023

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

59 mins; October 13, 2023

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

98 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023

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

62 hours 11 mins; September 29, 2023

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

71 hours 45 mins; September 28, 2023

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

78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023

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

62 hours 59 mins; September 24, 2023

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

61 hours 24 mins; September 18, 2023

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

61 hours 12 mins; September 17, 2023

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

46 mins; September 15, 2023

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32 mins; September 12, 2023

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

84 hours 8 mins; September 11, 2023

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

58 mins; August 20, 2023

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

88 hours 53 mins; August 14, 2023

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

54 mins; August 04, 2023

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

55 mins; July 29, 2023

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

61 hours 30 mins; July 29, 2023

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

80 hours 7 mins; July 16, 2023

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

38 mins; May 30, 2023

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

45 mins; May 23, 2023

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

52 mins; May 12, 2023

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

32 mins; April 28, 2023

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

44 mins; April 19, 2023

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

58 mins; April 17, 2023

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

56 mins; April 14, 2023

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

49 mins; April 05, 2023

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

54 mins; April 04, 2023

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

40 mins; April 04, 2023

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

62 hours 35 mins; April 03, 2023

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

66 hours 47 mins; March 31, 2023

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

41 mins; March 29, 2023

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

64 hours 12 mins; March 27, 2023

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

34 mins; March 14, 2023

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

123 hours 34 mins; March 09, 2023

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

68 hours 0 mins; March 06, 2023

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

102 hours 36 mins; March 04, 2023

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

36 mins; March 04, 2023

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

76 hours 22 mins; February 27, 2023

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

59 mins; February 26, 2023

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

140 hours 9 mins; February 25, 2023

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

99 hours 44 mins; February 21, 2023

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

36 mins; February 17, 2023

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

110 hours 44 mins; February 17, 2023

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

105 hours 28 mins; February 12, 2023

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

109 hours 37 mins; February 11, 2023

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

66 hours 47 mins; February 09, 2023

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

73 hours 43 mins; February 02, 2023

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

58 mins; February 02, 2023

A Left Turn? The Politics of Latin America Today

46 mins; January 30, 2023

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

31 mins; January 21, 2023

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

52 mins; January 17, 2023

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

58 mins; January 14, 2023

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

59 mins; January 13, 2023

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

88 hours 1 min; January 08, 2023

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