Media Secolas

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 relatively small school in rural Oregon. Have a listen!

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 current holdings. In Honduras, the acclaimed indigenous activist Berta Cáceres was a central figure in the defense of land from so-called economic development and infrastructure projects, in particular the successful campaign to stop the building of the Agua Zarca Dam on the Río Gualcarque on Lenca land. What is remarkable about Berta Cáceres is that much of her activism was done in the shadow of threats against her life, which only intensified during this campaign. In early March 2016, armed intruders assassinated Honduran indigenous activist in her home. Steven spoke with Nina Lakhani, environmental justice co

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 ambivalentes que los sectores dominantes han tenido sobre la mujer y el sujeto indígena. https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/natalie-l-kimball https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/an-open-secret/9780813590738 Intro / Outro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvYxSMHsW8

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 believed it could modernize “primitive” indigenous peoples through technology in the form of education, modern medicine, industrial agriculture, and factory work. David Dalton takes a close look at how authors, artists, and thinkers—some state-funded, some independent—engaged with official views of Mexican racial identity from the 1920s to the 1970s. https://pages.uncc.edu/ddalto14/ https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683400394

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 forma a la identidad nacional de Argentina. https://conicet.academia.edu/CeciliaTossounian https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683401162

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-century Cuba. http://www.matthewpettway.com/ https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Cuban-Literature-in-the-Age-of-Black-Insurrection Intro/Outro: https://youtu.be/2NqzePPhp7E

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 Estados Unidos.

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/book/9781469656106/landscape-of-migration/ https://history.wsu.edu/rci/ben-nobbs-theissen/

La historiadora Rossana Barragan discute con nosotros su mas reciente trabajo sobre el rol de las mujeres en las minas de Potosi en el periodo colonial como trabajadoras pero tambien como dueñas de trapiches. Una charla fascinante que nos ayuda a entender cómo ha cambiado la investigación sobre la historia colonial Andina de las ultimas tres décadas Rossana Barragán Romano, "Women in the Silver Mines of Potosí: Rethinking the History of 'Informality' and 'Precarity' (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)," International Review of Social History (24 October 2019), pp.1-26 Rossana Barragán Romano & Leda Papastefanaki, “Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction”, International Review of Social History (12 February 2020), pp. 1-40

La historiadora venezolana Cristina Soriano autora del libro Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela nos habla de los medios formales e informales de circulación de información, y en particular de ideas revolucionarias, durante el periodo de la independencia. Una fascinante y exhaustiva exploración de fuentes escritas: libros, panfletos, pasquines y fuentes orales: denuncias, y rumores en el medio de la crisis régimen colonial. https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/culturalstudies/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=cristina.soriano@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long https://unmpress.com/books/tides-revolution/9780826359865

In this episode we report on the state of the SECOLAS journal, The Latin Americanist. Steven chatted with editor Greg Weeks, and annals issue co-editors Gregory Crider and Jürgen Buchenau. Together they explored the world of journal publishing, endorsed good citizenship to the academe, and tried their best to convince us that the Mexican Revolution explains absolutely everything! Take a listen.

Dr. Fernanda Bretones Lane spoke with Steven about her article “The Congress of Vienna and the Making of Second Slavery,” which won the 2020 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article. Bretones Lane, who co-authored the article with Guilherme de Paula Costa Santos and Alain El Youssef, also discussed her current book project examining Spanish religious sanctuary laws that enslaved Africans in the Atlantic World utilized to achieve emancipation from the late 17th century to the early 19th century. https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/4/2/article-p162_3.xml?language=en https://history.ufl.edu/directory/current-faculty/fernanda-bretones-lane/ https://twitter.com/f_bretones

Esta semana en Historias en español tuvimos el grato placer de tener en el programa al historiador argentino Ernesto Semán para dialogar sobre su libro Ambassadors of the Working Class. Este libro, concentrado en la historia de los agregados obreros durante el gobierno de Perón, constituye un invaluable aporte a la historial social, política, y trasnacional. https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Martin.Ernesto.Sem%C3%A1n https://twitter.com/ErnestoSeman https://www.dukeupress.edu/ambassadors-of-the-working-class

Dr. Natalia Milanesio joined Steven to discuss her new book ¡Destape!: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina. For Milanesio, the Destape was "the biggest and most explosive sociocultural phenomenon after the fall of the military dictatorship... that made sexual culture into a powerful metaphor for democracy and the reconstruction of Argentine society.” ¡Destape! earned Honorable Mention in the 2020 Alfred B. Thomas Award competition from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Happy listening. https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945840/ https://www.uh.edu/class/history/faculty-and-staff/milanesio_n/

Xun Betan poeta y activista Tzotzil nos habla de su carrera como miembro y estudioso de las comunidades tzotziles en la frontera México-Guatemala. https://www.galeriamuy.org/esp/xun-betan-2/ Camino a San Cristobal (Intro) - https://youtu.be/wDk05gNL1CI La Maruchita (Outro) - https://youtu.be/OfUAkpia7Wk https://www.gob.mx/inpi/es/articulos/etnografia-de-los-pueblos-tzotzil-batsil-winik-otik-y-tzeltal-winik-atel?idiom=es https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/12595/tzotziles.pdf

Renata and Dustin spoke with Dr. Patrick Iber about his academic roots, and the origins of his book, Neither Peace Nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America. But our hosts were especially interested in Iber’s extensive record of publishing for popular audiences. They explore the question: what is a public intellectual, anyway?

El historiador uruguayo Aldo Marchesi analiza los procesos guerrilleros de los años 60 en Sudamerica. Aunque cada uno de estos procesos ha recibido algún grado de atención por parte de los historiadores en sus respectivos países, Marchesi rescata el carácter trasnacional de estos movimientos y la emergencia de una identidad colectiva que se fue forjando no solo a partir de la circulación de ideas que viajaban de un país a otro, sino también a partir también de los numerosos exilios de los que fueron objeto estos guerrilleros en las décadas de los sesenta y setenta. http://www.geipar.udelar.edu.uy/index.php/2016/07/04/aldo-marchesi/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/latin-americas-radical-left/D5ED018659A107F6FCDF48183C511853 Escuchar a la música inspirado por los tupamaros - https://soundcloud.com/alfonso-mijares/sets/versos-y-canciones-tupamaras

Three historians of epidemic disease - Nicole Pacino, Glen Kuecker, and Carlos Dimas - joined Steven to talk about the history of pandemics in Latin America and the Caribbean and how it can help us understand this particular moment we are living in. For further information: Carlos - https://www.unlv.edu/people/carlos-dimas Glen - https://www.depauw.edu/academics/college-of-liberal-arts/history/faculty-staff/detail/1112592582468/ Nicole - https://www.uah.edu/ahs/departments/history/faculty-staff/nicole-pacino