Overview
The paper will test your ability to analyze theoretical arguments. You will turn in a short, roughly two-to-three-page response paper that addresses the readings of that theme. With regard to paper questions, I would like you to ask and answer a question about what you see as the most important ideas in the readings. Understanding the readings well enough to ask a good question about them is part of the assignment.
Those texts are:
Gateway Reading
Lindner, Emmett. "Investigating Haiti's 'Double Debt'." New York Times, 22 May 2022, 2.
Apuzzo, Matt, Constant Méheut, Selam Gebrekidan, and Catherine Porter. "A Bank Created for Haiti Funneled Wealth to France." New York Times, 23 May 2022, 1.
Gebrekidan, Selam, Matt Apuzzo, Catherine Porter, and Constant Méheut. "Calculating Haiti's Payments to France." New York Times, 24 May 2022, 1.
Méheut, Constant, Catherine Porter, Selam Gebrekidan, and Matt Apuzzo. "A Haitian President Demands Reparations and Ends up in Exile." New York Times, 25 May 2022, 1.
Méheut, Constant. "Calculating Haiti's Payments to France." New York Times, 25 May 2022, 2.
Lustgarten, Abrahm. "Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming." ProPublica and The New York Times, 27 July 2022, 1-28.
April 12
Theoretical Reading
Blackburn, Robin. "Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of the Democratic Revolution." The William and Mary Quarterly 63, no. 4 (2006): 643-74.