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Laurent Dubois

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Haiti is Stuck in a Cycle of Upheaval. Its People Suffer The Most.

The assassination of the president is part of a pattern that undermines democracy.

by Laurent Dubois, Millery Polyné via Washington Post on July 10, 2021
The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti

A rebellion against French colonial rule in 1791 led to a new kind of society.

by Laurent Dubois, Rocky Cotard via The Nib on February 5, 2018
Chronicling “America’s African Instrument”

The banjo's history and its symbolism of community, slavery, resistance, and ultimately America itself.

by Laurent Dubois, Stephanie Kingsley via Perspectives on History on June 19, 2017
Why Haiti Should be at the Centre of the Age of Revolution

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.

by Laurent Dubois via Aeon on November 7, 2016

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Strummin’ on the Old Banjo

How an African instrument got a racist reinvention.

by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on October 4, 2016

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015

Hillary Clinton in Haiti

The King and Queen of Haiti

There’s no country that more clearly illustrates the confusing nexus of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Bill Clinton’s foundation than Haiti.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Politico Magazine on May 2, 2015

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