Caribbean

When We Are All Enemies of the State

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

  • Stuart Hall
  • Jordan T. Camp

Walter Rodney’s Radical Legacy

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

  • Shozab Raza
  • Noaman G. Ali

C. L. R. James’s Radical Vision of Common Humanity

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

  • David Scott

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.

  • Peter James Hudson

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.

  • Sophie Maríñez

When Jamaica Led the Postcolonial Fight Against Exploitation

How the New International Economic Order of the 1970s is inspiring a new generation of struggle against global inequality.

  • Adom Getachew

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Haiti, Disaster, and Revolution

Suffering in Haiti is a manmade, not a natural, disaster.

They Want that New New World

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

  • Carina del Valle Schorske

Cuba After the Thaw

Worsening Inequality for Afro-Cubans and Women

  • Michelle Chase

Beaches and Bombs

On vacationing in Vieques.

  • Sarah Hill

The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake

A Conversation with Jonathan M. Katz

  • Colin Dayan

Return to Haiti

A year and a half after the earthquake.

  • Colin Dayan

Apocalypse

There are no natural disasters, only social ones.

  • Junot Díaz

Remembering Haiti

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

  • Sidney W. Mintz

Whitewashing Haiti’s History

The world never forgave the slaves who freed themselves

  • Sidney W. Mintz

“Civilizing Haiti”

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

  • Colin Dayan

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad
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