Tag: Caribbean

Peter James Hudson

Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.

Sophie Maríñez

Looking for Solidarity

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.

Haiti, Disaster, and Revolution

Carina del Valle Schorske

They Want that New New World

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

Michelle Chase

Cuba After the Thaw

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

Sarah Hill

Beaches and Bombs

On vacationing in Vieques

Colin Dayan

The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake

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

Colin Dayan

Return to Haiti

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.

Junot Díaz

Apocalypse

There are no natural disasters, only social ones.

Sidney W. Mintz

Remembering Haiti

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

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