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

45 mins; May 28, 2018

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

68 hours 43 mins; May 14, 2018

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

42 mins; May 03, 2018

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

52 mins; April 26, 2018

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

38 mins; April 20, 2018

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

54 mins; March 19, 2018

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

52 mins; March 16, 2018

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

57 mins; February 19, 2018

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

64 hours 18 mins; February 16, 2018

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

49 mins; February 06, 2018

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

62 hours 8 mins; February 05, 2018

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

44 mins; January 23, 2018

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

50 mins; January 08, 2018

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

48 mins; January 04, 2018

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

38 mins; December 18, 2017

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

56 mins; November 29, 2017

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

45 mins; November 24, 2017

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

34 mins; November 07, 2017

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

43 mins; October 30, 2017

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

43 mins; October 26, 2017

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

46 mins; August 23, 2017

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

63 hours 40 mins; August 12, 2017

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

47 mins; June 27, 2017

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

49 mins; June 23, 2017

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

31 mins; June 13, 2017

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

53 mins; May 30, 2017

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

60 hours 0 mins; April 12, 2017

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

40 mins; April 12, 2017

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

50 mins; March 07, 2017

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

31 mins; February 23, 2017

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

34 mins; January 30, 2017

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

55 mins; January 18, 2017

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

43 mins; December 17, 2016

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

59 mins; November 23, 2016

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

46 mins; September 19, 2016

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

50 mins; August 29, 2016

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

48 mins; August 02, 2016

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

71 hours 4 mins; June 15, 2016

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

35 mins; May 12, 2016

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

50 mins; April 28, 2016

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

51 mins; April 18, 2016

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

30 mins; April 18, 2016

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

54 mins; April 03, 2016

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

44 mins; March 04, 2016

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

75 hours 45 mins; March 02, 2016

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

48 mins; February 24, 2016

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

45 mins; February 22, 2016

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

56 mins; February 07, 2016

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

61 hours 47 mins; February 03, 2016

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

52 mins; January 05, 2016

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

46 mins; December 10, 2015

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

46 mins; December 02, 2015

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

51 mins; October 27, 2015

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

71 hours 22 mins; October 20, 2015

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

57 mins; October 06, 2015

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

48 mins; September 26, 2015

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

4 mins; September 23, 2015

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

61 hours 6 mins; August 31, 2015

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

57 mins; August 30, 2015

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

42 mins; July 24, 2015

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

45 mins; July 09, 2015

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

45 mins; February 02, 2015

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

67 hours 39 mins; October 09, 2014

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

54 mins; January 26, 2012

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

68 hours 36 mins; January 24, 2012

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

66 hours 19 mins; September 05, 2011

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

64 hours 42 mins; August 29, 2008

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

73 hours 26 mins; June 12, 2008

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