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Brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group.

Globally, Black people are among the most affected by the climate crisis, despite contributing very little to it. For a long time, the crisis was portrayed as yet another inj... more

Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean (Rutgers UP, 2025) examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of caregiving that have emerged from the French Caribbean. Putting in dialogue postcolon... more

Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford UP, 2024) by Dr. Allison Powers offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power-one shaped as much by attempts to insulate th... more

Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing approach reflected in the familiar slogan “patria o muerte” (fatherland or death) has recently been cha... more

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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)
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)
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)
David M. Henkin
Professor of History at UC Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Episode: David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Dr. Kellen Hoxworth
Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Episode: Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Johanna Lukate
Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Episode: Johanna Lukate, "(Dis)Entangled: Black Hair, Race, and Identity" (Coronet, 2025)
Dr. Reena Goldthree
Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, author of Democracy's Foot Soldiers
Princeton University
Episode: Reena Goldthree, "Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2025)

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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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    I teach policy courses at a university and found this podcast by accident. It’s incredibly well moderated and produced, with exceptional guests. Keep up the great work.

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    Adam did a phenomenal job, I loved this interview with my whole heart. Thank-You Toni

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    United Kingdom6 years ago
  • Great Personal Study

    There are so many interesting facts in this podcast. From Ruma Chopra to Darwin I have personally learned many historical moments not discussed in school. This is my go to podcast.

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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.
Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Q: How does the chapter on Curating Silences portray the risks of 'giving a voice' to those erased in archives?
The chapter shows double erasure when curators rename subjects to sanitize history while failing to address the violence of archival gaps and the absence of contextualizing narratives.
Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Q: What is your baseline definition of care in the decolonial frame you develop?
Care is reframed from oppression toward repair and healing, a process that interrogates how care has been used to sustain violence and how it can be liberated to imagine new social futures.
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)
Q: How do you approach the idea of security and livelihoods in relation to climate, rather than just borders or policing?
The discussion moves toward livelihoods and people-centered security, including how prisons, migration, disability, and housing intersect with climate impacts, advocating for humane, abolitionist perspectives and transformative justice.
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)
Q: What did you feel you foreground most strongly in Black Climates?
The through line is climate crisis viewed through Blackness, centering lived experience and showing how different forms of oppression intersect with climate injustices to shape responses and solutions.

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What is New Books in Caribbean Studies about and what kind of topics does it cover?

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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