GETTING CURIOUS | Who Built The Panama Canal? with Professor Kaysha Corinealdi

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In 1903, a Frenchman and an American granted the United States ninety nine years of control over the Isthmus of Panama. No Panamanians signed that treaty. This week, Professor Kaysha Corinealdi and Jonathan explore the political history and legacy of what came next: the Panama Canal. Kaysha Corinealdi is an interdisciplinary historian of modern empires, migration, gender, and activism in the Americas. Her forthcoming book Panama in Black centers the activism of Afro-Caribbean migrants and their descendants as they navigated practices and policies of anti-Blackness, xenophobia, denationalization, and white supremacy in Panama and the United States. Her research can also be found in Black Perspectives (September 14, 2021), Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (Issue 12, 2018), the International Journal of Africana Studies (18:2, Fall-Winter 2017), and the Global South (6:2, Fall 2013). You can follow her on Twitter @KCorinealdi, and read more of her work here. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Kaysha Corinialdi where I ask her,
0:14.0	what's the story of the Panama Canal?
0:17.0	Welcome to Getting Curious,
0:19.0	This is Jonathan Vanes.
0:20.0	I'm so excited for this week's episode.
0:22.0	I'm so excited for this week's episode I'm so excited for this week's guests so
0:24.3	without any further ado welcome to the show Kaysha Coriniali who is an assistant
0:30.0	professor at Emerson College and an interdisciplinary historian of modern
0:34.8	empires, migration, gender, and activism in the Americas. And before we dive in I
0:39.6	realized that I live really close to a dam and then I was like what is going on with dams,
0:47.3	like what's going on with like water stuff. So we just had our first kind of learning experience with like dams and kind of like the economic,
0:55.9	the environmental, the displacement, all of the different factors that kind of go into what we know
1:02.0	as dams.
1:02.6	And then I was like, what about the Panama Canal?
1:08.3	And so here we are.
1:10.2	Welcome, how are you?
1:11.4	I'm good.
1:13.0	Thanks for having me.
1:15.0	And I'm excited that you got excited to learn about the Panama Canal.
1:19.0	That's, you know, all that I hope to be able to engender in my own students.
1:24.0	So, yay!
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