The ravages of Ebola in West Africa and of cholera in Haiti – and the world’s response to both – remind us that the scourge of anti-Blackness is savage, deadly, and global. The response to the two epidemics suggests that Black people are expendable, unprotected from the most abject and degrading forms of suffering, immaterial […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Ebola, Cholera, and the Epidemiology of Anti-Blackness or, Black Lives Don’t Matter
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Tagged africa, archives, blackness, cholera, Haiti, history, pan-africanism, sovereignty
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Black Looks: The Haiti Feminist Series
After a ten year run, our dear friend Sokari Ekine has stopped publishing the excellent blog Blacks Looks, but she’s left us with an incredible archive of Haitian feminist intellectual, political, and cultural history. Black Looks’ “Haiti: Feminist Series” consisted of a clutch of essays, interviews, and videos with Haitian artists, intellectuals, and activists addressing […]
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Tagged archive, art, feminism, pan-africanism, representation, sovereignty, women
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Frederick Douglass and Haiti: A Dossier
Letter from Frederick Douglass to Secretary of State James G. Blaine, Accepting the Appointment as U.S. Minister to Haiti, June 25, 1889 Hon. Frederick Douglass, “Haiti and the United States. Inside History of the Negotiations for the Mole St. Nicolas, I,” North American Review (September 1891) Hon. Frederick Douglass, “Haïti and the United States: Inside […]
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Tagged African-Americans, americas, archives, blackness, Haiti, pan-africanism, sovereignty
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