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Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.

I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Miranda Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Dr. Heidi Castaneda about a book just out in 2026 from NYU Press titled American Amazigher, Remaking North African Indigeneity and Belonging in the Diaspora, which examines the many things going on, negotiating identity, belonging, language, we might get into gender and religion, we might touch on as well, of the Amazigh community, also known as Berbers, in the U.S., And so we have a lot of things to discuss really about ideas of belonging, experiences, negotiations, making.

I mean, I could probably throw a whole bunch of other verbs in there, but I think that gives listeners a sense of the complexity and intrigue really of what we get to discuss.

So Heidi, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

Well, that certainly sounds interesting.

So best of luck with investigating those questions.

And of course, while you're doing that, listeners can read the book we've been discussing titled American Amazigh Remaking North African Indigeneity and Belonging in the Diaspora, published by NYU Press in 2026.

Heidi, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

just came out a little bit early.

So you can order it from NYU Press, but it's also available on Amazon, all of the kind of bookstores.

It's called Lesbian Feminist Killjoys.

The subtitle is Sin, Queer Negativity, and Inherited Guilt.

And thank you for our listeners to stay with us.

That was Professor Maxim Polary and his new book, Radioactive Governance, The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan, published last year by NYU Press.

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I'm Jingyi Li.