New Books in Caribbean Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books.
- Website
- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/peoples-places/caribbean-studies/
- Description
- New Books in Caribbean Studies
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-04 11:40
- last episode published
- 2024-12-31 09:00
- publication frequency
- 14.82 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Author Owner
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- Number of Episodes
- 409
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
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| 2024-12-31 | The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist... |
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| 2024-12-30 | A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-ra... |
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| 2024-12-22 |
Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024) In Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica (Duke UP, 2024), Matthew Chin investigates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to the island’s global reputation for extreme homophobia and anti-... |
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| 2024-12-20 | By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered “weapon of the wea... |
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| 2024-12-12 |
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024) During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many of them died on the way, and those who survived had to endure further suffering in th... |
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| 2024-12-10 | In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the de... |
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| 2024-12-08 | The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, 2025) is the essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of t... |
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| 2024-12-04 |
Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024) What happened to culture in 2020? In Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid (Repeater, 2024), Joy White, a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire, explores the impact of Covid, along with social, comm... |
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| 2024-11-19 |
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024) Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople dur... |
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| 2024-11-06 | A note about content: This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of slavery, colonization and empire. Please use your discretion and take care if you decide to listen. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis... |
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