Haiti

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/20/2021
  

  Haiti's Disasters are Man-Made

  by Emmanuela Douyon and Alyssa Sepinwall

  Haitians' vulnerability to harm from natural disaster is conditioned by centuries of foreign interference and exploitation.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/20/2021
  

  The Disasters in Afghanistan and Haiti Share the Same Twisted Root

  by Jonathan M. Katz

  "Both Haiti and Afghanistan owe their sorry conditions to decades of direct U.S. control. Looking closely at the links between the two is essential for understanding how to respond to each in ways that help, rather than do more harm."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/4/2021
  

  Overturning Five Myths of the Haitian Revolution

  by Julia Gaffield

  Many understandings of the Haitian Revolution, from its intellectual and political roots, to its military progress, to its political consequences, are at best half-truths. And it did not entail "white genocide." 

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• SOURCE: AyiboPost
  7/28/2021
  

  The Bloody, Ongoing Fight of Haitians to Maintain Independence

  by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

  Since an American military occupation begain in 1915, Haitians have struggled to maintain independence under the military and then economic domination of the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy Research Institute
  7/27/2021
  

  Haiti, Cuba, and the History of U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean (Virtual Event July 29)

  Michael J. Bustamante and Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall are featured in a discussion of American intervention in the Caribbean and its relationship to current turmoil in Haiti and Cuba. July 29, 2:00 PM. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/21/2021
  

  The United States Owes Haiti a Debt it Can't Repay

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  The Haitian Revolution set in motion events that transformed France, North America, and the Caribbean, but conflicts were invariably resolved at the expense of independent Haiti. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/11/2021
  

  The Historical, Political And Social Conditions That Led Haiti To Turbulence

  Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/5/2021
  

  AAIHS Book Club: Jean Casimir's "The Haitians" (Convenes Online in August)

  The African American Intellectual History Society will convene an online book club discussing Jean Casimir's "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" with events beginning in August. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/4/2021
  

  What The Haitian Revolution Tells Us About The U.S. Movement For Racial Equality

  Historian Marlene Daut on the significance of the Haitian Revolution for America's unfinished struggle for racial equality. 

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  3/4/2021
  

  The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti

  by National History Center

  Professor Brandon Byrd's talk to the National History Center is now viewable online. 

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• SOURCE: Medium
  1/4/2020
  

  Who was Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Why Does He Matter Now?

  by Julia Gaffield

  The anniversary of Haitian independence is occasion to rethink the legacy of the nation's first head of state, the uncompromising opponent of slavery and colonialism Jean-Jacques Dessalines. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/30/2020
  

  Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’

  The African American Intellectual History Society will present next week a series of responses to Dr. Brandon Byrd's 2019 book examining the relationship between Black American intellectuals and activists and the Republic of Haiti. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/30/2020
  

  When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History

  by Marlene Daut

  Because the indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them, Haiti should be at the center of the global movement for reparations.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Tear Down that Statue, Mr. Macron!

  by Marlene L. Daut

  Four figures from French history whose statues could replace that of Jefferson in Paris.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  4/7/2020
  

  Lessons from Haiti on Living and Dying

  by Marlene L. Daut

  The late historian C.L.R. James sought to disavow the importance of one of Haiti’s most storied revolutionary heroes to reveal the role played by the Revolution’s masses and less visible leaders, reflecting that each life and death is profoundly poltical.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/9/2020
  

  The History of Slavery Remains With Us Today

  by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente

  Two historians trace how law and institutions developed around anti-black ideology in the Americas.

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• 5/5/19
  

  Navassa Island: The U.S.’s 160-year Forgotten Tragedy

  by Ken Lawrence

  Both the U.S. and Haiti claim the island. Here's why its history matters. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/28/19
  

  The Other Notre-Dame Was Not Rebuilt

  by Amy Wilentz

  Perhaps France should help Haiti, its former colony, rebuild the cathedral lost in the 2010 earthquake.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/28/19
  

  Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change

  by Crystal Eddins

  Marginalized communities of color and nations of the Global South are generally most vulnerable to natural disasters associated with climate change.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/23/19
  

  Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, ‘the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere’

  by Marlene Daut

  With “Black Panther” receiving multiple Oscar nods, it’s time to look at the closest thing to Wakanda that has existed: the Kingdom of Hayti.