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
Image Credit: Library of Congress
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Episode 16: The Atlantic Amazon
Image Credit: Library of Congress
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.
Suggested Readings
Bittencourt, F., Amoni, M., Schmidt, A. and Loureiro, C. “Potential Biophysical Climate Change Impacts at World Natural Heritage Sites in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest”, in Climate Change, Hazards and Adaptation Options (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020): 961–978.
Das, S. and Ghadiali, A. “Genealogies of the Emergency: A Conversation on Race, Climate and Museums”, in Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, eds. Harrison, R. and Sterling, C. (London: Museums for Climate Action, 2021): 60-70.
Decker, J. “Museums and Climate Change: From Passive Bystander to Agent of Change”, Research Outreach (5th August 2021).
Glasgow Science Centre. Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, Google Arts and Culture.
Lotzof, K. “Why Climate Change is Sexist.” Natural History Museum (2021).
Lyons, S. and Bosworth, K. “Museums in the Climate Emergency”, in Museum Activism, eds. Janes, R. and Sandell, R. (London: Routledge, 2019): 174-185.
Newell, J. “Creative Contributions: Museums Engaging with Communities and Climate Change”, in Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences, eds. Filho, W., Lackner, B. and McGhie, H. (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019): 143-157.
Takumã Kuikuro and Thiago Jesus. “View the Exhibition: Natural Future Museums.” MfCA Website.
The Ignoramus Podcast. “Episode 20: Thiago Jesus on Reimagining Indigenous Collaborations with Artists from the Kuikuro people in the Brazilian Amazon.”
White, K. P. “White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization”, Solutions Journal (3rd April 2018).
Episode 17: Decolonizing Climate Action in Museums
To learn more about Leia, check out her Voices of Textiles exhibit, connect with her on LinkedIn, visit her Twitter profile @leia_caldwell.
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)