Race & Racism

November 4, 2024
François Pierre-Louis

Renewed attacks on Haitian immigrants in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election have created fertile ground for mass mobilization.

October 28, 2024

This series brings together perspectives on Haitian migration and experiences of anti-Haitianism across the continent, from the Midwest to the Dominican Republic and beyond. 

October 24, 2024
Gabrielle Apollon

In the face of mounting attacks on Haitian diaspora communities from Springfield to Santo Domingo, immigrants across the hemisphere are coming together to demand protection.

October 15, 2024
Obed Lamy

In the wake of a firestorm of racist rumors, many members of a thriving Haitian community are considering relocating, pushed out by threats and hate.

October 7, 2024
Bertin M. Louis, Jr.

From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the collective scapegoating and mass deportation of Haitians for political gain lays bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness.

September 30, 2024
Darlène Dubuisson and Mark Schuller

As anti-Haitianism surges in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election, confronting the rise in xenophobia and hate requires a hemispheric approach to U.S. imperialism.

September 16, 2024
Ayendy Bonifacio

Old racist tropes demonizing Haitians as uncivilized practitioners of barbaric or mysterious rituals have been revived, once again casting immigrants from Haiti as dangerous outsiders unworthy of protection or empathy.

April 2, 2024
Amarilys Estrella

New expressions of ultranationalist violence censoring Black women and migrants harken back to the Trujillo dictatorship. Anyone deemed a threat to Dominican values is a potential target.

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