Afro-descendant Brazilians are in the front line of the battle for Nature. Review: The Earth Gives, the Earth Wants, Antônio Bispo dos Santos, translated by Alex Brostoff and Jamille Pinheiro Dias, 2026, Polity Press.
Categories: Brazil, South America
A black revolutionary’s exile in Cuba draws attention to unfinished business. Review: Fugitive States: The Life of Charlie Hill, a Black Radical Exile in Socialist Cuba, Teishan A Latner, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Cuba, United States
Guyana once provided revolutionary hope for African Americans. Review: A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s, Russell Rickford, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Guyana, United States
Mexican and Cuban stories translated by Langston Hughes make a radical debut. Review: Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes, ed. Ricardo A Wilson, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Cuba, Mexico, United States
The legacy of Cuban internationalism in Africa still defies US hegemony. Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa, Víctor Dreke Cruz, 2025, Pathfinder Press
Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Cuba, International, United States
Look carefully at Rio de Janeiro—it reflects your future. Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation, edited by Paul Amar, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
A study of Afro-descendant music in New Spain hits the right note. Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico: Vocality and Beyond, Sarah Finley, 2024, Vanderbilt University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil, Katherine Jensen, 2023, The University of Chicago Press
Categories: Brazil, International, Middle East & North Africa, South America, Syria
El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba, Lydia Cabrera, 2023, Duke UP
