Tag: Caribbean

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.

The work of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud recalls a time when the two sides of the Caribbean island were united by their visions for an equal society.

In the 1970s, a bloc of Third World states forced the United Nations to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. Could their example inspire a new generation?

M. NourbeSe Philip combs history for the black American experience.

Renewed U.S. relations may worsen inequality for Cuba’s blacks and women.

On vacationing in Vieques

Jonathan Katz has written the book about the Haitian earthquake. How does he contextualize the tragedy in the country's history?

I went back to Haiti on August 15, a year and a half after the earthquake. The place where I had lived on and off since the summer of 1970 was unrecognizable. But the politics were familiar.

In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, an anthropologist reflects on his fieldwork in Haiti fifty years earlier.

The inescapable truth is that “the world” never forgave Haiti for its revolution, because the slaves freed themselves.

It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince.