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Hermanas haitianas y hermanos haitianos en Tapachula y Tijuana no se rinden.
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We Are Not All Haitians
Reading and re-reading The Public Archive’s 2012 interview with the late J. Michael Dash I was struck by Dash’s refusal to talk about himself. In the interview Dash described many of the moments and encounters that shaped him as an intellectual. But he offered little in the way of personal motivation. There is nothing of the […]
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A Dossier on Disaster Capitalism and Haiti
Just three days after the January 10, 2010 earthquake activist and journalist Naomi Klein alerted her readers to the impending ways in which capital would use Haiti’s crisis as a means for exploitation and accumulation. “Readers of the The Shock Doctrine know that the Heritage Foundation has been one of the leading advocates of exploiting […]
Crucifixion de Charlemagne Pérale pour la Liberté
Detail from Philomé Obin (1891–1986), Crucifixion de Charlemagne Pérale pour la Liberté, 1970.
Canada, Haiti, and Military Occupation: A Dossier
• Canada in Haiti: Who Engineered the Overthrow of Democracy? • Canadian Crimes in Haiti: Beyond Complicity. • “Legalized Imperialism,” “Responsibility to Protect” and the Dubious Case of Haiti. • No Time for Democracy: Six years of Canada in Haiti. • Declassifying Canada in Haiti: Part I: Canadian officials planned military intervention weeks before Haitian coup. • Declassifying Canada […]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 January 2010
Evelne Alcide, Seisme (Earthquake), 2010. Museum of International Folk Art/Museum of New Mexico. Click links for more information; click image for larger version.
Radical Black Reading: Late summer, 2018
A few late summer’s reading suggestions, with a little nod to the impact of the revolutions of 1917 and 1968 on the Caribbean. In Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Pluto) Charles Forsdick and Christian Hogsbjerg have produced what is arguably the most important biography of Louverture since CLR James’ magisterial Black […]
Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens
The Public Archive. A proud product of New Jersey public schools, historian Margaret Stevens went to Newark’s University High School and Rutgers College in New Brunswick before completing her doctoral work in the Department of American Civilization at Brown University. She is the author of the path-breaking study Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in […]