Episode Info & Recommended Readings
Season 2
Suggested Readings
Subaltern Spaces and Diasporic Imaginaries in Rio de Janeiro's Valongo Wharf by João Sodré
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Anthony, Constance G. “Urban Forced Removals in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles: North-South Similarities in Race and City.” The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 44, no. 2 (2013): 337–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23645599.
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Karasch, Mary C. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850. Princeton University Press, 1987. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcszzf5.
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Episode 15: Public Memory of Slavery in Rio
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Episode 16: The Atlantic Amazon
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To learn more about Manoel, visit his Twitter profile @RendeiroNeto.
Suggested Readings
Espelt-Bombin, Silvia. “Makers and Keepers of Networks: Amerindian Spaces, Migrations, and Exchanges in the Brazilian Amazon and French Guiana, 1600–1730,” Ethnohistory 65, no. 4, Oct. 2018.
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Harris, Mark. Rebellion on the Amazon: The Cabanagem, Race, and Popular Culture in the North of Brazil, 1798– 1840. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Roller, Heather. Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil. Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Safier, Neil. Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Spieler, Miranda Frances. Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Torre, Oscar De la. The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Episode 18: Cacao in Colonial Equatorial Guinea
To learn more about Bethania, visit you can contact her at bhm29@georgetown.edu
Suggested Readings
Ferrer Piera, Pablo. Fernando Póo y Sus Dependencias: Descripción, Producciones y Estado Sanitario. Barcelona: A. López Robert, 1900.
Real Sociedad Geográfica (España). “Revista de Geografía Colonial y Mercantil.” Boletín de La Sociedad Geográfica Madrid, 1897, v 1-2.
Adams, Jonathan and Thomas McShane, The Myth of Wild Africa (W.W. Norton 1992).
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“A Forgotten Colony: Equatorial Guinea and Spain.”
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Bocuma Mene, Demetrio. “Assessing Attitudes Towards Biodiversity Conservation among Citizens on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.” Order No. 10131823, Drexel University, 2016.
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Clarence-Smith, W. G. “African and European Cocoa Producers on Fernando Póo, 1880s to 1910s.” The Journal of African History 35, no. 2 (1994): 179–99.
Sundiata, Ibrahim. “Equatorial Guinea: The Struggle for a Cocoa Economy, 1880–1930.” In Cocoa Pioneer Fronts since 1800 edited by W.G. Clarence-Smith, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1996.
Suggested Readings
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean by David Wheat
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Worrying About Emotions in History by Barbara H. Rosenwein
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Providence Island by Karen Kupperman
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Violent Delights, Violent Ends by Nicole von Germeten
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Genealogical Fictions by Maria Elena Martinez
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Reckoning with Slavery by Jennifer Morgan
Episode 20: Schoool of Salamanca in Early Latin American Revolutionary Projects
To learn more about Johannes, you can contact him on Twitter @jschmidt_16
Suggested Readings
The Scholastic Roots of the Spanish American Revolution
by O. Carlos Stoetzer
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The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544-1605 by Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
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Brackenridge, H. M. Voyage to South America. London: Printed for John Miller, Burlington Arcade, 1820.
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Álvarez, Ángel Fernández. Escuela Española De Economía De Los Siglos XVI Y XVII. Madrid: Unión Editorial, 2017.
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El populismo en las independencias hispanoamericanas by Dario Dawyd
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The Hispanic roots of the American Revolution
by Johannes Schmidt
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Christopher Columbus and the birth of modern human rights
by Johannes Schmidt
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Suggested Readings
Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell A. The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico
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Fernández, Johanna. Young Lords: A Radical History
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Ramos, Aaron Gamaliel. “Performing Identity: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Puerto Rico,”
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Goodwin, Jeff, and James M. Jasper. The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts.
Episode 21: Puerto Rican Social Movements
Episode 22: Los Negros Mascogos & Juneteenth
To learn more about Taryn, you can find her on Instagram @taryntraveler
Suggested Readings
The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People by Kenneth W. Porter
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The Mexican Kickapoo Indians by Felipe A. Latorre and Dolores L. Latorre
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Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies by Bernd Reiter and John Antón Sánchez
Suggested Readings
"Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World" by Roger Atwood
More Works by Roger Atwood:
Murder Islands: Australia: Archaeology
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The Ugarit Archives: Syria: Archaeology
Organic or Starve: Cuba's Food Future: The Guardian
Fathoming Other Cultures: Nautilus
Episode 23: Looting in Latin America
To learn more about Roger Atwood, you can visit his personal website: https://rogeratwood.com/
Episode 24: Urban Slavery in The Bahamas
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To learn more about Sasha, you can find her on Instagram @bahareads
Suggested Readings
Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in The Bahamas by Christopher Curry
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The African Diaspora to the Bahamas by Keith Tinker
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The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas by Keith Tinker
“Free to Bury Their Dead: Baptism and the Meanings of Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean” by Fernanda Bretones Lane
Suggested Readings
Gabriela Soto Laveaga, “Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Octavio Paz and Mexican Hybrid Seeds in India,” Agricultural History, Fall 2021 (95.4)
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Gabriela Soto Laveaga, “Largo dislocare: connecting microhistories to remap and recenter histories of science,” History and Technology, 34:1, 2018: 21-30
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The Death of Ramón González: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma by Angus Wright
The Violence of Green Revolution by Vandana Shiva
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Episode 26: Ghanaian Women's Movement
To learn more about Aincre, you can view their Oxford faculty profile here
Suggested Readings
Mind What You Tell Your Daughter: An Afro-feminist Collection of Poems by Aincre Maame-Fosua Evans
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The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe: Nationalism, Feminism, and the Tyrannies of History by Jean Allman
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"All The Women Are Meeting:" The National Council of Negro Women, Emerging Africa, and Transnational Solidarity, 1935-1966 by Yatta Kiazolu
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement by Katherine M. Marino
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Unlearning and Relearning Europe: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Decolonising European Studies Curricula by Aincre Maame-Fosua Evans and Danai Petropoulou Ionescu
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Webinar: Decolonizing the Curriculum with Aincre Evans (9 Sept 2020)
Suggested Readings
Ida Altman, Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater
Antilles, 1493–1550 (2021)
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David Wheat, and Ida Altman wrote The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century (2019)
Kathleen Deagan’s “Reconsidering Taíno Social Dynamics after Spanish Conquest: Gender and Class in Culture-Contact Studies”
Samuel M. Wilson’s Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de. An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the
Destruction of the Indies: And Related Texts
Episode 27: Indigenous, Spanish & African Life in the Greater Antilles
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Episode 28: Slavery & Colonialism in French Art
To learn more about Meredith, you can view her NYU faculty profile here
Suggested Readings
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France (co-authored with Gillian Weiss) (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute Publications, 2022)
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Reimagining the Ballet des Porcelaines: A Tale of Magic, Desire, and Exotic Entanglement, ed. Meredith Martin, with contributions by Phil Chan and Charlotte Vignon (Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2022)
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Meltdown: Picturing the World's First Bubble Economy (co-authored with Nina Dubin and Madeleine Viljoen) (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols-Harvey Miller Publishers, 2020)
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"De New York à Nantes, le musée face à l'esclavage," Entre-temps, February 2023
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“Confronting Slavery in the Museum, from New York to Nantes" Age of Revolutions (2023)
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Katharine Baetjer, "Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant," The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016)
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Tianna Mobley, "Slavery & Colonialism in French Art" Presentation Slides (2024)