New Books in Caribbean Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/peoples-places/caribbean-studies/
- Description
- New Books in Caribbean Studies
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-28 09:46
- last episode published
- 2025-02-28 09:00
- publication frequency
- 14.6 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 419
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- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
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| 2025-02-28 | In this episode, Saeed Khan and Chella Ward sat down with Dr Aliyah Khan to discuss Muslimness in the Caribbean, drawing on Aliyah’s book Far From Mecca and ongoing important work in this area. This wide-ranging conversation covers decolonial solidarit... |
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| 2025-02-23 |
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024) The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two ... |
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| 2025-02-21 | In 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo, the capital of Mozambique—boarded a ship licensed by the East India Company bound for England. Instead, their perfidious captain sold them into slavery in Jamaica. After two years of pleading their ... |
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| 2025-02-19 | In Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas (U Toronto Press, 2025), Stephanie M. Pridgeon explores cultural depictions of Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity within a comparative, inter... |
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| 2025-02-10 | In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of GuanahanĂ to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the myth of paradise, the Caribbean and its people would come to pay the price of relentless Western exploitation ... |
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| 2025-01-23 |
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe Henry Christophe was born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, and fought to overthrow the British in North America before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue—as Haiti was then called—to end slavery. He rose to p... |
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| 2025-01-23 | What a difference four years makes. Back in February 2021, still struggling to understand what had just happened at the Capitol, John and Elizabeth spoke with Brandeis historian Greg Childs. He is an expert in Latin American political movements and pub... |
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| 2025-01-13 | How Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida. On July 4, 1876, during the centennial celebration of US independence, the city of Key West was different fr... |
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| 2025-01-12 |
Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024) In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2024), Jorge Duany unravels the fascinating and turbulent past and present of an island that is politically and economically tied to the United States, yet culturally distinc... |
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| 2025-01-07 |
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020) In his new book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s (Faber, 2020), Simon Hall, a Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds, colorfully details an extraordinary visit by Fidel Castro to New York in the Autumn of 196... |
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