Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti’s Bad Press
Robert Lawless, “Haiti’s Bad Press” Haiti Haiti’s Bad Press: Origins, Development, and Consequences by the anthropologist Robert Lawless can be [...]
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Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti and the United States, 1714-1938
Ludwell Lee Montague, “Haiti and the United States, 1714-1938” Haiti If Haiti’s apologists could ever be bothered to read this old book, they would be [...]
Caribbean Project: The Origin of AIDS
AIDS came to the United States from Haiti Haiti In the mid-1970s, Port-au-Prince in Haiti was a prime destination for American gay sex tourism, especially for male [...]
Caribbean Project: James Franklin on Haiti (1828)
James Franklin on Haiti in 1828 Haiti We’ve already seen Hesketh Prichard’s description of the Cul-de-Sac plain in 1899 in Where Black Rules White. Sir Spenser [...]
Caribbean Project: African-American Colonization In Haiti
Toussaint L’ouverture, the George Washington of Haiti Haiti There are few topics more dear to the heart of White Nationalists than the dream of colonizing [...]
Caribbean Project: Review: Hayti, or, The Black Republic
Sir Spenser St. John, “Hayti, or, The Black Republic” Haiti Even today, Sir Spenser St. John’s Hayti, or, The Black Republic still enjoys a reputation as [...]
Caribbean Project: Mats Lundahl on Haiti’s Foreign Debt
Haiti Here’s a key excerpt from Mats Lundahl’s Poverty In Haiti: Essays on Underdevelopment on the nature of Haiti’s external debt: “The occupation [...]
Caribbean Project: Who Is Mats Lundahl?
Swedish development economist Mats Lundahl Haiti There comes a point in every critical investigation when you either admit failure or strike pay dirt. In the course of [...]
Caribbean Project: Review: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories
Jared Diamond on the divergence of Haiti and the Dominican Republic Haiti In racialist circles, Jared Diamond is known for his bestselling 1999 book Guns, Germs, and Steel: [...]
Caribbean Project: Review: Where Black Rules White – A Journey Across and About Hayti
Hesketh Prichard, “White Black Rules White – A Journey Across and About Hayti” Haiti Hesketh Prichard’s Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across and [...]
Black History Month 2014: The Plain of Cul-de-Sac
in 1899, Hesketh Prichard visits the Plain of Cul-de-Sac Haiti The year is 1899. Hesketh Prichard, a British explorer, adventurer, and travel writer, has arrived in Haiti to [...]
Black History Month 2014: The White Man’s Burden
William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden Third World I stumbled across this book in the course of trying to find out the total amount of money that the West has [...]
Black History Month 2014: The History of US Foreign Aid to Haiti
Are Haitians being infantilized by the aid industrial complex? Haiti The Daily Beast has a new article by a 31-year-old journalist who has figured out what is wrong with [...]
Black History Month 2014: Can The Negro Rule Himself?
British adventurer Hesketh Prichard travels across Haiti Haiti Insofar as White Nationalists know anything about the history of Haiti, Dr. William Pierce’s classic ADV [...]
Black History Month 2014: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Faustin I Soulouque
Emperor Faustin I Soulouque of the Second Empire of Haiti (1849-1859) in his coronation robe Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I [...]
Black History Month 2014: The Real Power Behind Baby Doc
Haiti’s first family, 1980 Haiti In 1986, CBS aired a piece by Ed Bradley on the fall of Haiti’s “President-for-Life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier. [...]
Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
In 1920, a US marine whips a troop of Haitian soldiers into shape Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The [...]
Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
The US occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach [...]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Trade and Caribbean World Market Shares
Haiti’s exports faced growing world competition in the 19th century Haiti In the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I came across the myth that Western countries essentially [...]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Laurent Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks [...]
Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, president of Haiti, 1957-1971 Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the [...]
Caribbean Project: Victor Schoelcher on Haiti
French abolitionist Victor Schoelcher travels to independent Haiti in 1841 Haiti Victor Schoelcher, the most famous French abolitionist of the 19th century, whose life work [...]
Caribbean Project: The Demise of Haiti’s Sugar Industry
Haitians wreck their own country … it never recovers Haiti In 1789, there were 288 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Northern Province, 314 sugar plantations in [...]
Caribbean Project: Haiti: The Usual Explanations
Why is Haiti a failed state? Haiti Editor’s Note: I’m compiling a list of the usual explanations for Haiti’s failure along with an explanation why each [...]
Caribbean Project: Spenser St. John on Haitians
Haiti Here’s an excerpt from Spenser St. John’s “Hayti, or the Black Republic”: “The vexed question as to the position held by the negroes in [...]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Double Debt
Haiti Here’s something that you won’t find in the Wikipedia entry about Haiti’s external debt: “Although payments were occasionally suspended, [...]
Caribbean Project: Crossroads Haiti Debate
Haiti In 1852, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque’s coronation in the Second Empire of Hayti Editor’s Note: Here’s my latest response in the Crossroads Haiti [...]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Big Truck That Went By
Jonathan Katz’s The Big Truck That Went By: How The World Came To Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster Haiti Jonathan M. Katz’s The Big Truck That Went By: How [...]
Black History Month 2013: France Abolishes Slavery
France abolishes slavery on February 4, 1794 French Caribbean NewsOne is celebrating February 4 as the 219th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the French Empire. It [...]
Caribbean Project: Haiti, the British West Indies, and the South’s “Mirror”
Dixie In light of the weakness of abolitionist fanatics in the North, why was the South so sensitive to abolitionist criticism? Why was the South willing to reject [...]