Best Vanessa Gómez Podcasts (2024)

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Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:03:14

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Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in information and communication technologies and foster the participation and retention of women in science and technology fields. In In Defense of Solidarity a…

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Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024) 53:52

7d ago53:52

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Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of modern-world resource extraction and the obscured yet damaging ways in whic…

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Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023) 1:04:31

8d ago1:04:31

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In Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2023), Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between the 1865 Mor…

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The Five Stages of Stuttering: Part 2 55:33

11d ago55:33

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Join us this episode as we conclude our discussion on the last three sections of The Fives Stages of Stuttering, the debut full-length poetry collection by Cassie Holguin-Pettinato. Stay tuned for our interview with Cassie herself! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support…

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Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024) 1:04:40

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Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cul…

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The Five Stages of Stuttering: Part 1 1:03:28

21d ago1:03:28

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Join us this episode as we begin our breakdown of the first two sections of The Five Stages of Stuttering, the first full-length poetry collection (FlowerSong Press 2024) by Cassie Holguin-Pettinato. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021) 1:14:22

24d ago1:14:22

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Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-…

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Bad Mexican, Bad American: Part 3 (Author Interview) 37:09

25d ago37:09

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As part of his author visit to El Paso Community College, Jose Hernandez Diaz joined us in person at our studio at Power at the Pass for an interview on his latest poetry book, Bad Mexican, Bad American. We hope you enjoy our in-depth conversation on his collection, the publishing world, and his advice for up-and-coming writers!--- Support this pod…

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Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024) 51:22

28d ago51:22

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In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded in material ways, through the ink they applied to paper or the artefacts they created with muslin, silk threads, feathers, and shells. Handiwork, such as sewing, knitting, embroidery, and other craf…

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Bad Mexican, Bad American: Part 2 29:33

28d ago29:33

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This episode, we wrap up our discussion of Bad Mexican, Bad American by Jose Hernandez Diaz, with a look at the second half of the poetry collection. Stay tuned for an interview with Jose! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020) 1:03:24

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Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism (The New Press, 2020), Laura Gómez, a leading expert on race, law, and society, illuminates the fascinating r…

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Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020) 59:13

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Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased the musical embargo of the island and restored relations with Cuba. Musical exchanges during this period act as a lens …

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Bad Mexican, Bad American: Part 1 52:09

1M ago52:09

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Join us this episode as we begin covering the first half of Bad Mexican, Bad American, the first full-length poetry collection by Jose Hernandez Diaz published by Acre Books (2024). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP) 45:51

1M ago45:51

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The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Year’s War, though it isn’t usually thought of that way. In the first few days of the quarantine and our current geopolitical and epidemiological shitshow, John and Elizabeth spoke with Vincent Brown, who recently published Tacky…

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The Border Simulator: Part 3 (Author Interview) 51:07

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Gabriel Dozal joins us this episode for an interview on his debut poetry collection, The Border Simulator! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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The Border Simulator: Part 2 46:06

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Join us as we wrap up our platica on the second half of Gabriel Dozal's debut poetry collection, the Border Simulator, and stay tuned for an interview with Gabriel!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020) 1:04:37

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Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United States government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critic…

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The Border Simulator: Part 1 1:02:40

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Listen in as we begin discussing the first half of the Border Simulator, the poetry collection debut by Gabriel Dozal. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin, "Race and Transnationalism in the Americas" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) 39:15

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Edited by Benjamin Bryce and David Sheinin, Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), highlights the importance of transnational forces in shaping the concept of race and understanding of national belonging across the Americas, from the late nineteenth century to the present times. The book also examines how …

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Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 40:15

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In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Drawing on understudied archives, this pathbreaking work, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations (Cambridge UP, 2022) unearths a new history of Black…

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Maria Cristina Garcia, "State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change" (UNC Press, 2022) 50:15

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Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (UNC Press, 2022), there is actually…

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Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, "Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:27:01

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In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States (UNC Press, 2023), that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material …

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Mateo Jarquín, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024) 33:59

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The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. In The Sandinista Revolution: A Globa…

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Mexican Gothic: Part 4 (Author Interview) 29:17

2M ago29:17

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We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you an interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic, in anticipation of her visit to El Paso on Thursday, May 2nd 2024! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021) 1:04:22

2M ago1:04:22

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In Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (Duke UP, 2021), Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the …

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Promises of Gold: Part 2 30:38

3M ago30:38

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This episode, we wrap up our discussion of the second half of Promises of Gold by José Olivarez. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024) 44:44

3M ago44:44

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Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to …

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Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015) 41:54

3M ago41:54

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In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2015), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to a…

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Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023) 58:46

3M ago58:46

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Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex ways in which enslaved people were thought about and treated as human but also dehumanized to be understood as private property or chattel. The comparison of enslaved people to animals, particularly d…

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Adele Oliver, "Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill" (404 Ink, 2023) 48:10

3M ago48:10

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Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill (404 Ink, 2023) by Adèle Oliver shines a critical light on UK drill and its fraught relationship with the British legal system. Intervening on current discourse steeped in anti-Blackness and moral panic, this Inkling ‘deeps’ how the criminalisation of UK drill cannot be disentangled fro…

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