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Tyesha Maddox
Author of A Home Away from Home, Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity
University of Pennsylvania Press
Episode: Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Ricardo Wilson
Editor of Troubled Lands, author and scholar
Williams College/The Outpost Foundation
Episode: Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson
Erica Morawski
Author of Development Design, Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean
Pratt Institute
Episode: Erica Morawski, "Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
Katharine Gerbner
Associate Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies
University of Minnesota
Episode: Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)
Selina Nwulu
Author of Black Climates (Chatto & Windus, 2025)
Chatto & Windus / Black Climates
Episode: Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)
Jennifer Boum-Maké
Associate professor of French and Francophone studies
Georgetown University
Episode: Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Dr. Allison Powers
Legal historian and assistant professor in the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Episode: Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Lillian Guerra
Author and scholar focusing on Cuban history and politics, discussing her book on the Cuban Revolution.
Episode: Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
Cecilia Márquez
Hunt Family Assistant Professor in history at Duke University
Duke University
Episode: Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher
Host of the network's Caribbean-facing channel; frequently involved in scholarly discussions on empire, law, and history.

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Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Q: What do you see as the political evolution of these societies across time and space?
She describes a shift from initial settlement-oriented aims in the US toward more explicit political involvement by the 1920s–1930s, including housing, education, and immigration advocacy, with active participation in protests and cross-cooperation with African American organizations.
Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Q: Could you tell me a little bit about how you came to see these societies and associations as a lens for understanding Caribbean migration and community formation?
Maddox explains that mutual aid societies served multiple functions—helping new immigrants settle, find kinship, secure jobs, and build networks—making them a key lens to trace how Caribbean migrants formed a transnational yet localized community in New York, eventually shaping identities within a broader Black diaspora.
Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)
Q: Why Jamaica and why the Moravians for this book's focus?
The Moravians' unusually extensive daily diaries and letters create a rich but distinct archive, making it possible to explore Afro-Moravian communities, Obeah as a site of religious and social transformation, and archival silences in a highly specific historical setting.
Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)
Q: Can you actually read an excerpt from the book so that listeners can get a taste of what you're bringing to the fore?
She reads the opening lines to frame the book's micro-history, highlighting how Obeah is defined inside archival terms and how those definitions intersect with Afro-Jamaican experiences and Moravian records.
Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Q: Can you discuss the role of graphic narratives in making care histories legible?
Graphic narratives counter invisibility by giving voice to victims and their histories, using visual and textual layering to reconstitute fragmented memories and show how care relates to environment and community.

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A scholarly discussion channel that centers on recent historical research across the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and the broader Atlantic world. Episodes frequently center on empire, race, migration, and cultural production, with guests ranging from authors promoting new books to researchers unpacking long-standing historiographical debates. The show shines in its ability to connect archival work with contemporary questions about colonial legacies, identity, and social movements, often through the lens of race, citizenship, and transnational networks. Listeners are likely researchers, educators, and students who value rigorous historical argument, accessible moderation, and conversations that illuminate underexplored narratives within... more

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