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Episode Description With a focus on the Caribbean, this book highlights how identification practices as promulgated by the World Bank, United Nations (UN) and the Inter-American Development Bank can force the thorny question of nationality, unsettling long-established identities, and entitlements.…

Episode Description This episode focuses on the translation of a post-earthquake novel, The Immortals. The Immortals is set in an infamous neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Grand-Rue, where many women, young and old, trade in flesh, sex, and desire. We learn,…

Episode Description Danielle Legros Georges’ “The Dear Remote Nearness of You” speaks poetry’s origin in new and startling ways. This is the precise intelligence that knows it must step carefully across the light on the surface of the water.

Episode Description The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. In this interview, Dr. Eddins book tells the story of how…