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Haiti: Again Alone

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On November 20, 2017

Another day, another Trump decision to whiten America: The Trump administration is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in th

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  So, clearly, I need to drop in soon with an update on this weekend’s French election. But, in the meantime, it turns out that France isn’t the only place where colonial history is back up for debate. A constitutional scholar just published an apparently serious call for Haiti to relinquish its sovereignty–preferably to Canada. […]
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Land, Power, and Haiti

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On January 19, 2016
If you are looking for a throwback to 20th century Latin American leftism, you might be interested in this interview with Haitian leftist Ricot Jean-Pierre on land and power in Haiti. Jean-Pierre combines a 21st century criticism of international economics that exploit nations like Haiti–American agribusiness and mining is hardly going to bring Haitians out […]

History of Slavery

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On January 17, 2016

A couple of articles on the history of world slavery that may pique your interest on a Sunday morning. First, here’s a really interesting photo essay on African slaves in Iran in the late 19th a

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