Historias Podcast

Steven sat down with Dr. Rafael Ocasio to talk about his new book, A Bristol Rhode Island and Matanzas Cuba, Slavery Connection: The Diary of George Howe. The conversation takes us from Rhode Island to Matanzas – from the U.S. Capital to plantation fields. Using George Howe as a window into the era, Ocasio paints a vivid picture of a challenging world.

La dra. Christine Arce habla de su libro *Mexico's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women* con Carmen Soliz.

Dr. Mark Healey of UConn and Dr. Ernesto Semán of the University of Bergen (Norway) joined Steven to assess the first year in office of Argentine president Alberto Fernández.

Dra. Ángela Vergara habla de su nuevo libro *Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile* con Carmen y Giovanni.

Dr. Javier Puente of Smith College joined Steven to discuss the current crisis in Peru and what it means for democracy, accountability, and the aspirations for a participatory and dynamic democracy.

Drs. Ángela Vergara and Joshua Frens-String spoke with Dustin about Chile’s recent constitutional plebiscite. They talked about the nuts-and-bolts issues involved, and put the movement for constitutional change in a broader historical perspective. Enjoy!

Esta semana hablamos con el antropólogo Lurgio Gavilan quien de niño fue miembro de Sendero Luminoso, reclutado, más tarde, por el ejército Peruano, sacerdote en la iglesia católica, y ahora docente universitario en la universidad de Huamanga. Lurgio nos habla de su libro *Memorias de un soldado desconocido: autobiografía y antropología de la violencia* y del impacto que este fascinante trabajo ha...

Dustin spoke with Drs. Tanya Harmer and Tiffany Sippial about their new biographies on Beatriz Allende and Celia Sánchez Manduley. They discussed the significance of gender and the ways in which their subjects’ stories add to our collective understanding of politics and revolution during the mid-twentieth century. They also consider questions of leadership, legacies, and lessons today’s political...

On Sunday, October 18, 2020, Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since last year’s controversial election and subsequent deposing of longtime president Evo Morales. Evo and many members of the government and political party MAS, the Movement towards Socialism, fled into exile as an interim government seized the reigns of power and used the military and security services to violently put...

En esta entrevista hacemos un recorrido por la carrera de la historiadora Gabrielle Kuenzli quien nos habla de su libro Acting Inca: National Belonging in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia en el analiza la re-construcción de la memoria Aymara y su representación en la imagen política nacional y, su próximo proyecto, centrado en el rol de los latinos en Estados Unidos en las carreras de caballos. Su...

Dr. Sarah Osten joined Steven to discuss the complex story of state consolidation in Mexico following the cessation of revolutionary violence and nationwide fighting. The Mexican Revolution's Wake -https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mexican-revolutions-wake/A7E101384E1EE07D5D773479153EF16F

Dr. Yuko Miki de Fordham University habla de su libro "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil" con Carmen Soliz y Gionvanni Bello. podcast home: https://historiaspodcast.com/ book link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frontiers-of-citizenship/D6D8DED62259DA179669030296AC7043

Join Steven and Dustin as they go on a deep dive into contemporary Venezuela with Dr. Alejandro Velasco. Alejandro talks about the country’s political crisis, including the increasingly fractured state of the opposition. They also discuss U.S. and international efforts to isolate the Maduro government, the ways that COVID has affected Venezuela, and the state of the country’s oil industry. Be sure...

Dustin spoke with an outstanding panel about the Donald Trump administration’s policies toward Latin America. Settle in for a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Margaret Commins, Dr. Mary Rose Kubal, Dr. Jeffrey Taffet, and Dr. Gregory Weeks covering Cuba, Venezuela, immigration, race, COVID, and much more.

El destape fue un movimiento social y cultural vital para ampliar la definición de democracia y la creación de una sociedad pluralista después del periodo dictatorial de los años setenta. El destape que se constituyo en una explosión de imágenes sobre sexualidad en Argentina, marcó en palabras de la historiadora Natalia Milanesio, "el mayor y más explosivo fenómeno sociocultural después de la caíd...

Dr. Pablo Palomino joined Steven to discuss his new book *The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History*. Book link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-invention-of-latin-american-music-9780190687403?cc=us&lang=en& El Manisero - https://youtu.be/sj7NfrrnaKE

Sarah spoke with Dr. Alma Rosa Alvarez, Professor of English at Southern Oregon University, about the development of Chicanx studies. They discussed the evolution of Chicanx literature, the intersection of modernization and Liberation Theology, and issues surrounding homophobia and sexism in the canon. The two also probed the particular challenges surrounding teaching Chicanx literature at a relat...

Dr. Jake Blanc spoke with Carlos about his new book *Before the Flood: the Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil.*

Land and the control of it lay at the core of Latin American economic inequality, social unrest, and political violence. It animates the scholarship on the region. In such countries with large indigenous communities as Bolivia, Mexico, and Honduras, the systematic dispossession of land remains an unresolved and contentious issue as these communities seek restitution while simultaneously defending...

La historiadora Natalie Kimball discute son nosotros su trabajo Un secreto a voces: La historia del embarazo no deseado y el aborto en Bolivia. El libro acaba de salir impreso por la universidad de Rutgers. Kimball investiga las experiencias personales e íntimas que las mujeres bolivianas han tenido con la sexualidad y la reproducción. Estas experiencias revelan las actitudes contradictorias y amb...

Dr. David Dalton joined Steven to discuss his book entitled *Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico.* After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity—the mestizo. This book shows that as part of this vision, the Mexican government bel...

Cecilia Tossounian reconstruye diferentes representaciones de la feminidad moderna de la Argentina de los años 20 y 30, un período complejo en el que el Argentina vio la prosperidad y la crisis económica, una población cosmopolita creciente, el surgimiento de la cultura de consumo y el desarrollo del nacionalismo. Tossounian analiza cómo estas imágenes populares de la chica moderna ayudaron a dar...

Dr. Matthew Pettway joined Steven to discuss his new book *Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion*. By focusing on the Afro-Cuban poets Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, known as Plácido, Pettway explores how they intertwined Spanish and African bodies of knowledge to create a narrative of emancipation in nineteenth-c...

El historiador peruano Gianncarlo Muschi nos habla de su investigación de doctorado que analiza la historia de migración peruana a Paterson, New Jersey en Estados Unidos. Su trabajo de muestra cómo las estrategias peruanas para sobrevivir a la economía informal en el Perú como el “recurseo,” fueron también instrumentos que ayudaron a los migrantes peruanos a consolidar redes económicas exitosas en...

One of the more consequential and least studied outcomes of Bolivia's 1952 national revolution was settling and transformation of the country's tropical eastern frontier. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen explains how Mennonites from Mexico, Okinawans, and highland Bolivian indigenous moved into the region, forever transforming the environment and the trajectory of the city of Santa Cruz. https://uncpress.org/bo...