Tag: White Supremacy

Cuba’s defiant contributions to the fight against racism and white supremacy (Works by Horne and Fitz cited by ‘Latin America in Movement’)

Cuba’s defiant contributions to the fight against racism and white supremacy (Works by Horne and Fitz cited by ‘Latin America in Movement’)

Anti-American, anti-Jim Crow sentiment and against the white supremacist domination project were already present on the island well before the revolution….generating a revolt that was not only against foreign domination, but against a deeply racist domination that tried to impose the same ‘Jim Crow’ system on Cuba, trying to transform a society with racism into a racist society according to the model of white supremacy…

As skilled in the pyrotechnics of historiographical revision as archival spelunking (Science & Society reviews “The Dawning of the Apocalypse”)

As skilled in the pyrotechnics of historiographical revision as archival spelunking (Science & Society reviews “The Dawning of the Apocalypse”)

I read this gorgeous, furious book while teaching the first half of the U. S. history survey: 1607–1877….In this book as well as its recent antecedent, ‘The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean,’ Horne turns to examine the earlier foundations of empire and racial capitalism. Unlike much of his other work, these books are primarily secondary-source–driven. But Horne is that historian, as skilled in the pyrotechnics of historiographical revision as he is at archival spelunking.

Watch: On NYT’s ‘ransom of Haiti’ (Horne on ‘Democracy Now!’)

Watch: On NYT’s ‘ransom of Haiti’ (Horne on ‘Democracy Now!’)

Says Horne: The New York Times series, “The Ransom,” will “hopefully cause us to reexamine the history of this country and move away from the propaganda point that somehow the United States was an abolitionist republic when actually it was the foremost slaveholder’s republic….”