New Books in Caribbean Studies
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Rose Muzio, "Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York" (SUNY, 2017)
62 hours 43 mins; February 16, 2021
Ray Allen, "Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City" (Oxford UP, 2019)
63 hours 4 mins; February 09, 2021
Andrew Grant Wood, "The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
68 hours 7 mins; January 27, 2021
James F. Siekmeier, "Latin American Nationalism: Identity in a Globalizing World" (Bloomsbury, 2017)
65 hours 40 mins; January 26, 2021
Vanessa Mongey, "Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
61 hours 23 mins; January 20, 2021
Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927" (Columbia UP, 2020)
74 hours 26 mins; January 18, 2021
Sharika D. Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making" (UNC Press, 2020)
68 hours 16 mins; January 12, 2021
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History" (Beacon Press, 1995)
90 hours 37 mins; December 31, 2020
Marjoleine Kars, "Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast" (New Press, 2020)
44 mins; December 29, 2020
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" (UNC Press, 2020)
78 hours 51 mins; December 28, 2020
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
74 hours 40 mins; December 23, 2020
Anne Garland Mahler, "From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity" (Duke UP, 2018)
34 mins; December 22, 2020
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
59 mins; December 08, 2020
Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
53 mins; November 24, 2020
Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution" (NYU Press, 2016)
88 hours 43 mins; November 10, 2020
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
42 mins; November 06, 2020
Dylon Robbins, "Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
55 mins; October 14, 2020
Edgardo PĂ©rez Morales, "No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions" (Vanderbilt UP, 2018)
73 hours 59 mins; September 23, 2020
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (UPenn Press, 2004)
94 hours 53 mins; September 10, 2020
Jennifer L. Morgan, "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
78 hours 26 mins; September 09, 2020
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
42 mins; September 02, 2020
Brad Walters, "The Greening of Saint Lucia: Economic Development and Environmental Change in the West Indies" (UWI Press, 2019)
68 hours 50 mins; September 02, 2020
Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
95 hours 42 mins; August 28, 2020
Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings" (McFarland, 2019)
50 mins; August 26, 2020
Amelia Moore, "Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas" (U California Press, 2019)
43 mins; August 21, 2020
F. Henry and D. Plaza, "Carnival Is Woman: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas. (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
74 hours 22 mins; August 21, 2020
Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince" (U California Press, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; August 04, 2020
Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas: Empires and Legal Networks" (Oxford UP, 2017)
61 hours 9 mins; July 30, 2020
Katherine Zien, "Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
65 hours 27 mins; July 24, 2020
Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
63 hours 25 mins; July 22, 2020
Ismael Garcia-Colon, "Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms" (U California Press, 2020)
25 mins; July 10, 2020
Hanna Garth, "Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal" (Stanford UP, 2020)
48 mins; July 09, 2020
Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, PlĂĄcido, and Afro-Latino Religion" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
60 hours 48 mins; July 07, 2020
A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
49 mins; June 24, 2020
Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean" (UNC Press, 2016)
56 mins; June 23, 2020
Robert C. McGreevey, "Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration" (Cornell UP, 2018)
49 mins; June 15, 2020
Cristina Soriano, "Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela" (UNM Press, 2018)
66 hours 12 mins; June 10, 2020
Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2020)
56 mins; June 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Monique A. Bedasse, "Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization" (UNC Press, 2017)
61 hours 4 mins; June 01, 2020
Louis A. Pérez, "Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2019)
56 mins; May 19, 2020
Natasha J. Lightfoot, "Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2015)
73 hours 47 mins; May 14, 2020
Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad" (UNC Press, 2019)
56 mins; May 08, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Pankaj Jain, "Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora" (Routledge, 2019)
74 hours 33 mins; April 15, 2020
Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Harvard UP, 2020)
61 hours 0 mins; April 07, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indies, 2018)
78 hours 36 mins; February 13, 2020
Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou" (Duke UP, 2019)
44 mins; February 04, 2020
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
61 hours 27 mins; February 03, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Gregory P. Downs, "The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic" (UNC Press, 2019)
72 hours 37 mins; January 29, 2020
Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War" (UNC Press, 2019)
70 hours 4 mins; January 22, 2020
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, "Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops" (Routledge, 2019)
46 mins; January 09, 2020
Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti" (U Penn Press, 2019)
58 mins; December 24, 2019
Lennox Honychurch, "In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica" (UP Mississippi, 2017)
51 mins; December 12, 2019
Luis MartĂ­nez-FernĂĄndez, "Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2018)
71 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
55 mins; November 26, 2019
Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
61 hours 30 mins; November 22, 2019
David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640" (UNC Press, 2016)
61 hours 38 mins; November 18, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
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45 mins; October 24, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
33 mins; October 15, 2019
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, "Black British Migrants in Cuba" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
52 mins; October 09, 2019
Cécile Vidal, "Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society" (UNC Press, 2019)
58 mins; October 08, 2019
Marisol LeBrĂłn and Yarimar Bonilla, "Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm" (Haymarket, 2019)
61 hours 21 mins; October 04, 2019
Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad" (UNC Press, 2019)
45 mins; September 23, 2019
Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela" (UNC Press, 2018)
52 mins; August 28, 2019
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
89 hours 44 mins; August 27, 2019
Sam Erman, "Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
56 mins; July 25, 2019
Carlos Garrido Castellano, "Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
36 mins; July 17, 2019
Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957" (NYU Press, 2017)
51 mins; June 27, 2019
Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America" (U Texas Press, 2019)
61 hours 56 mins; June 25, 2019
Marisol LeBrĂłn, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
65 hours 41 mins; June 18, 2019
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
55 mins; June 14, 2019
Melissa Johnson, "Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
47 mins; April 26, 2019
Brooke Newman, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2018)
65 hours 45 mins; March 27, 2019
Allison Coffelt, "Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip Through Haiti" (Lanternfish Press, 2018)
57 mins; March 20, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Andrew T. Fede, "Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World" (U Georgia Press, 2017)
53 mins; March 18, 2019
César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball In Cuba" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
42 mins; March 15, 2019
Bianca Williams, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism" (Duke UP, 2018)
43 mins; February 15, 2019
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris, "Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
59 mins; January 24, 2019
Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
89 hours 38 mins; January 10, 2019
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Ruma Chopra, “Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone” (Yale UP, 2018)
39 mins; November 21, 2018
Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)
34 mins; November 01, 2018
Antonio Sotomayor, “The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
67 hours 18 mins; September 20, 2018
Megan Raby, “American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science” (UNC Press, 2017)
39 mins; September 18, 2018
David García, “Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins” (Duke UP, 2017)
47 mins; September 05, 2018
Teishan A. Latner, “Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992” (UNC Press, 2018)
36 mins; September 04, 2018
Peter James Hudson, “Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
64 hours 24 mins; August 28, 2018
Molly Warsh, “American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700” (UNC Press, 2018)
52 mins; August 07, 2018
Vanessa ValdĂ©s, “Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg” (SUNY Press, 2018)
67 hours 41 mins; August 03, 2018
Pablo Gomez, “The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic” (UNC Press, 2017).
53 mins; July 24, 2018
Matthew Casey, “Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
45 mins; July 11, 2018
Londa Schiebinger, “Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford UP, 2017)
42 mins; June 27, 2018