New Books in Caribbean Studies
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Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)
72 hours 49 mins; January 07, 2023
Pedro LebrĂłn Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora EducaciĂłn Emergente, 2021)
54 mins; December 25, 2022
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
78 hours 23 mins; December 20, 2022
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
57 mins; December 16, 2022
Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
42 mins; December 14, 2022
Joanna Newman, "Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
65 hours 17 mins; December 12, 2022
Stuart Earle Strange, "Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
93 hours 32 mins; December 10, 2022
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
65 hours 23 mins; November 28, 2022
David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
54 mins; November 16, 2022
On Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism"
44 mins; November 14, 2022
Ken Chitwood, "The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean" (Lynn Rienner, 2021)
74 hours 13 mins; November 11, 2022
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
60 hours 7 mins; November 07, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
74 hours 0 mins; November 07, 2022
Christopher Stuart Taylor, "Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians" (Fernwood, 2016)
71 hours 29 mins; November 04, 2022
4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay
48 mins; November 03, 2022
Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; November 01, 2022
Mario Nisbett, "The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty" (Lexington Books, 2021)
53 mins; October 28, 2022
Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)
61 hours 20 mins; October 24, 2022
Rose-Ann Smith, "The Day I Became a Hurricane" (Hooked on Books Jamrock, 2022)
35 mins; October 24, 2022
Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)
63 hours 20 mins; October 07, 2022
S. Karly Kehoe, "Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
52 mins; October 07, 2022
Ricardo LĂłpez-Pedreros, "The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies" (Routledge, 2022)
43 mins; October 05, 2022
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
28 mins; October 05, 2022
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 30, 2022
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; September 26, 2022
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)
64 hours 52 mins; September 23, 2022
Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" (Indiana UP, 2019)
61 hours 31 mins; September 22, 2022
Kaysha Corinealdi, "Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2022)
65 hours 2 mins; September 19, 2022
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)
57 mins; September 09, 2022
Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
53 mins; September 08, 2022
Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
39 mins; August 31, 2022
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
44 mins; August 16, 2022
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin, "The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; August 03, 2022
Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
44 mins; August 02, 2022
Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson, "Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices" (U West Indies Press, 2021)
54 mins; July 15, 2022
Erin C. MacLeod, "Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2014)
49 mins; July 15, 2022
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)
40 mins; July 13, 2022
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; July 01, 2022
Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
78 hours 48 mins; June 10, 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana GĂłmez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 35 mins; June 07, 2022
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
59 mins; May 31, 2022
Ashley M. Williard, "Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
47 mins; May 30, 2022
Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)
50 mins; May 27, 2022
Diana McCaulay, "Daylight Come" (Peepal Tree Press, 2020)
35 mins; May 24, 2022
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
60 hours 10 mins; May 13, 2022
Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
40 mins; May 10, 2022
80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
49 mins; May 05, 2022
Hurricanes
12 mins; April 28, 2022
Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, "The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)
51 mins; April 27, 2022
Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
46 mins; April 11, 2022
Hilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)
66 hours 18 mins; April 05, 2022
Alison Donnell, "Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
25 mins; March 30, 2022
Ellen Jones, "Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas" (Columbia UP, 2022)
75 hours 59 mins; March 29, 2022
Tessa Murphy, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
86 hours 56 mins; March 16, 2022
Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)
56 mins; February 21, 2022
David Alston, "Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2022
Mimi Sheller, "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2020)
88 hours 11 mins; February 10, 2022
Micah Alpaugh, "Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
60 hours 13 mins; February 07, 2022
Vincent Joos, "Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
60 hours 40 mins; February 04, 2022
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa and Rodrigo Quijano, "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)
58 mins; January 18, 2022
Kris Sealey, "Creolizing the Nation" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
55 mins; January 10, 2022
Laurie R. Lambert, "Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
43 mins; January 06, 2022
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
128 hours 13 mins; January 05, 2022
Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
65 hours 18 mins; January 04, 2022
Nicole C. Bourbonnais, "Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
50 mins; November 19, 2021
James G. Cantres, "Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
74 hours 25 mins; November 17, 2021
Rachel Afi Quinn, "Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
54 mins; November 10, 2021
Jovan Scott Lewis, "Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
56 mins; November 05, 2021
Viviana B. MacManus, "Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
55 mins; October 22, 2021
J. L. Torres, "Migrations" (LA Review of Books, 2021)
51 mins; October 12, 2021
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
65 hours 50 mins; October 11, 2021
Takkara K. Brunson, "Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2021)
48 mins; October 04, 2021
Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
54 mins; September 03, 2021
Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)
83 hours 46 mins; August 31, 2021
Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
58 mins; August 23, 2021
Michael J. Bustamante, "Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile" (UNC Press, 2021)
79 hours 16 mins; August 18, 2021
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, "Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
54 mins; August 16, 2021
Tiffany A. Sippial, "Celia SĂĄnchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary" (UNC Press, 2020)
79 hours 40 mins; August 06, 2021
Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
36 mins; August 04, 2021
Elizabeth B. Schwall, "Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2021)
54 mins; August 03, 2021
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
70 hours 44 mins; July 22, 2021
Catalina M. de OnĂ­s, "Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2021)
39 mins; July 07, 2021
Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
43 mins; July 05, 2021
RocĂ­o Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)
69 hours 38 mins; June 24, 2021
Rachel Hynson, "Laboring for the State : Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971" (ï»żCambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; June 17, 2021
Cécile Fromont, "Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition" (Penn State, 2019)
50 mins; June 09, 2021
Tim Lockley, "Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 26, 2021
Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
80 hours 32 mins; May 21, 2021
Edgardo Meléndez, "Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionary Exiles in Late Nineteenth-Century New York" (Centro Press, 2019)
44 mins; April 29, 2021
Adom Getachew, "Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination" (Princeton UP, 2020)
45 mins; April 26, 2021
Allison B. Wolf, "Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
74 hours 36 mins; April 13, 2021
Julio CapĂł Jr., "Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940" (UNC Press, 2017)
52 mins; April 12, 2021
Brad A. Jones, "Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2021)
69 hours 34 mins; April 09, 2021
Chelsea Stieber, "Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954" (NYU Press, 2020)
46 mins; March 25, 2021
Erica Ball et al., "As if She Were Free" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
71 hours 44 mins; March 21, 2021
Juan JosĂ© Ponce VĂĄzquez, "Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
50 mins; March 12, 2021
Njoroge M. Njoroge, "Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
46 mins; March 11, 2021
Deborah A. Thomas, "Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair" (Duke UP, 2019)
73 hours 33 mins; February 26, 2021
Ana-Maurine Lara, "Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
63 hours 17 mins; February 22, 2021
Yomaira C. Figueroa-VĂĄsquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
69 hours 54 mins; February 18, 2021