Caribbean history

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• SOURCE: History Today
  7/28/2022
  

  Review: Elizabeth Dore's Grassroots History of Socialism's Decline in Cuba

  The loosening of state control over Cuba's economy has delivered most benefits to white Cubans with relatives sending remittances from the United States to start businesses in Cuba. Afro-Cubans and migrants from poorer provinces have suffered. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  4/13/2022
  

  Cuba and the US: Necessary Mirrors

  by Geraldo Cadava

  How much more could the 1619 Project have accomplished if it considered the broader connections of slavery, racism and power in the Caribbean? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/20/2022
  

  The Elusive Guantanamo Endgame

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  "In the legal quagmire the U.S. has created, there is, in fact, no easy solution to closing Guantanamo."

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• SOURCE: Defector
  1/11/2022
  

  How the Cold War Killed Cannabis as We Knew It

  When Henry Kissinger sought to assert American control of Caribbean bauxite ore reserves, he set off a political dirty war that poisoned the Jamaican interior and destroyed prominent strains of cannabis in the name of marijuana interdiction. 

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• SOURCE: Ebony
  12/19/2021
  

  Julius S. Scott, Noted Scholar and Professor of Caribbean History, Passes Away at 66

  Scott's unpublished disseration on Black internationalism in the Caribbean became legendary; Harvard University’s Vincent Brown described it as “an underground mix-tape” that influenced many other scholars in a field that was not yet established in the academic mainstream. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/19/2021
  

  Bloody History Looms over Haitian Crisis

  "A bloody history of American influence looms large, and a century of U.S. efforts to stabilize and develop the country have ultimately ended in failure."

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  12/2/2021
  

  Marking the 500th Anniversary of the Americas' First Slave Revolt

  The legacy of the rebellion, which is considered the first recorded revolt in the Americas, reverberated throughout the region. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/15/2021
  

  Guantanamo's Other History

  by Jeffrey S. Kahn

  Reports of a bid for migrant detention contractors based at Guantanamo including speakers of Haitian Creole fed suspicion of a new connection of the military and immigration enforcement. Where Haitian refugees are concerned, the Guantanamo connection is nothing new. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/10/2021
  

  The West's Centuries-Old Debt to Haiti

  by Howard W. French

  "Although Americans’ centuries-long debt to the Haitian people is untaught in our schools and unacknowledged in our public discourse, the indomitable spirit of the Haitian people created the United States we know today."

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• 10/10/2021
  

  Reviving the Conflict Between Columbus and Taíno Chieftain Caonabó Through Historical Fiction

  by Andrew Rowen

  By resisting the conquest of Columbus, Taíno peoples made the story of conquest their story too. A novelist explains how he worked to recover both sides of the conflict, including the values and worldview of Native and European antagonists, through historical fiction. 

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• 8/8/2021
  

  The US Should be Wary of Interfering in Cuba

  by Joseph J. Gonzalez

  Young Cuban protesters may be forming a revolutionary generation. They may succeed in advancing democracy if the US can resist the historical temptation to interfere.

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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 Post
  4/19/2021
  

  ‘Prejudice’ Exposed? Jane Austen’s Links to Slavery ‘Interrogated’

  The Jane Austen House museum will undertake an effort to examine and publicize the connections between the novelist's family and the Caribbean slave trade. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/27/2020
  

  This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People

  by Clifton E. Sorrell & Daina Ramey Berry

  The rebellion of the enslaved on the Creole depended on the rebels escaping to the jurisdiction of the British and arguing that the British ban on the slave trade could legally seize the human property of Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
  10/26/2020
  

  Cuban Slavery and The Atlantic World: 2020 Gilder Lehrman Center Conference (11/6-11/7)

  This annual conference works to integrate both scholars and archives in Cuba to research on the Atlantic slave trade. 

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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.