Haiti as Empire's Laboratory w/ Jemima Pierre
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the absolutely terrific Professor Jemima Pierre to discuss her vital piece Haiti as Empire's Laboratory, which came out in NACLA late last year. Here, we discuss the history of Western Imperialist intervention in Haiti primarily since the revolution, and why Haiti is often overlooked outside of analysis of the Revolution, or the current material situation divorced from any historical understanding. You may remember our episode Haiti and Western Intervention w/ Pascal Robert, which came out just over a year and a half ago. This conversation is in much the same vein, with some updating and additional analysis, so if you haven't already listened to that other conversation, please do so!
Jemima Pierre is Professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and is the Haiti/Americas Coordinator with the Black Alliance for Peace. She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race and numerous academic and public articles about Haiti. Try to find her on her secret twitter account, one of the best follows out there, but you have to do the searching yourself!
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| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:15.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
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| 0:45.6 | historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, |
| 0:49.5 | Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's a real pleasure to be with you. |
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| 1:42.3 | underscore pod. As I said, we have a super guest today. We have Jamima P.R-R-R-R-A-L-A-U-S-R-R-R-I-L-A- underscore pod. As I said, we have a super guest today. We have Jemima Pierre, who is a professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. Hello, professor. It's nice to have you on the show. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. It's a pleasure. I've been a fan of your work for a very long time. And honestly, |
| 2:04.3 | this conversation is long overdue. We're going to be basing this conversation off of the article |
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