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Dominican Republic. Identity, Borders, and Control
Episode 466
This episode examines how the Dominican Republic built national identity through division, beginning with independence in eighteen forty four and con…
5 months, 1 week ago
Trinidad and Tobago – Oil, Music, and Power
Episode 465
This episode examines the modern history of Trinidad and Tobago through the collision of oil wealth, cultural power, and political control. From the …
5 months, 1 week ago
Cuba – Revolution Before the Revolution
Episode 464
This episode traces the long build of pressure that shaped modern Cuba before the moment the world remembers. From the end of Spanish rule to the fal…
5 months, 1 week ago
Haiti – The Only Successful Slave Revolution
Episode 463
This episode examines Haiti’s revolution from uprising to aftermath, and the price imposed for winning it. It traces how the world’s richest slave co…
5 months, 1 week ago
Jamaica – From Plantation Colony to Cultural Superpower
Episode 462
This episode traces Jamaica’s transformation from a violently engineered plantation colony into one of the most influential cultural forces on the pl…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why the Caribbean Still Matters Globally
Episode 461
Why the Caribbean Still Matters Globally challenges the idea that the region is small, peripheral, or finished with history. From the nineteen hundre…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Independence Promises and Early Failures
Episode 460
This episode examines the moment after celebration, when independence moved from promise to practice. Focusing on Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados bet…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Caribbean Enters the Twentieth Century
Episode 459
This episode traces the Caribbean’s entry into the twentieth century as a period of awakening rather than arrival. Between nineteen hundred and ninet…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Colonial Borders and Manufactured Nations
Episode 458
Colonial Borders and Manufactured Nations examines how the Caribbean was divided by imperial design and forced to inherit those divisions at independ…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Birth of Caribbean Identity
Episode 457
This episode examines how Caribbean identity formed in the century after emancipation, not through celebration or declaration, but through survival. …
5 months, 2 weeks ago