Geographer Marion Werner’s Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean is among the most important, and easily the most innovative, work of political economy to emerge on the Caribbean region over the past decades. Issued by the excellent Antipode Book Series, the imprint of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Global Displacements […]
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Caribbean Workers and Capitalist Geography: An interview with Marion Werner
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Haiti: Americas
On Oct. 20, hair-raising stories reached the world press of a massacre by Dominican soldiers of several thousand Haitian poor folk who had crossed the wild, remote border to find land and work. LIFE’s photographer wangled his way to the border after a trip through Voodoo Haiti. Pictures next week will show Haitians beating drums […]