Caribbean Project: Review: Hayti, or, The Black Republic
Haiti Even today, Sir Spenser St. John’s Hayti, or, The Black Republic still enjoys a reputation as the most negative book ever written about Haiti. Spenser […]
Race Realism
Caribbean Project: Who Is Mats Lundahl?
Haiti There comes a point in every critical investigation when you either admit failure or strike pay dirt. In the course of OD’s Caribbean Project, […]
Caribbean Project: Review: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories
Haiti In racialist circles, Jared Diamond is known for his bestselling 1999 book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies which attempts to explain […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Where Black Rules White – A Journey Across and About Hayti
Haiti Hesketh Prichard’s Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across and About Hayti is a travelogue written by a British explorer who set out in 1899 to […]
Black History Month 2014: The Plain of Cul-de-Sac
Haiti The year is 1899. Hesketh Prichard, a British explorer, adventurer, and travel writer, has arrived in Haiti to see with his own eyes the […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
Haiti Philippe Girard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation is easily the best of the most recent popular histories […]
Black History Month 2014: Papa Macías, The Pol Pot of Africa
Equatorial Guinea It wouldn’t be right to let Black History Month 2014 pass here without paying tribute to Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea. Dubbed […]
Black History Month 2014: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Faustin I Soulouque
Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque attracted the most foreign criticism, and is still considered by some […]
Caribbean Project: Labadee, Hispanolia
Haiti Reading over Steve Sailer’s column “Why Haiti Is So Hopeless,” I am struck by how little attention is paid to the relative absence of tourism […]
Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach history to American […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the dead of winter, usually during […]
Caribbean Project: Victor Schoelcher on Haiti
Haiti Victor Schoelcher, the most famous French abolitionist of the 19th century, whose life work culminated in the final abolition of slavery in the French […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Big Truck That Went By
Haiti Jonathan M. Katz’s The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster is a memoir […]
Northern Racial Attitudes and Integration
American North Here’s an excerpt from Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North about the shift in […]
Preparing The Ground
Tennessee I’m headed to Nashville with Renee on a business trip for the CofCC. We’re going to stop in Murfreesboro and Shelbyville and elsewhere in […]
Wonkette on Murfreesboro
District of Corruption Oh, where to start? 1.) As everyone knows by now, the League isn’t using the Confederate battle flag at our protest in […]
Founding Father
BRA Last month, it was “The Childfree Life” …
The Ruins of Gary
Indiana The New York Times has been kind enough to provide us with a window into the future of the US system, which OD and […]
Salon: Why The Right Hates Detroit and New Orleans
Salon It sounds like someone has been reading SBPDL.com … “Is it pure coincidence that these two landmark cities, known around the world as fountainheads […]
Sharpton Already Trying To Incite a Race Riot
Florida MSNBC is airing this image of dead Trayvon: Note: Interestingly enough, this is the same thing that Jim Giles used to do with death […]
Paula Deen Interview
New York This is pathetic … a multimillionaire groveling before these worms. Note: I can’t believe anyone would want to be “respectable” in the eyes […]
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Missouri I’m still trying to understand why this documentary was called “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.” In 1954, downtown business interests and Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) built […]
Review: Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
Dixie Clive Webb’s Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights complicates the traditional White Nationalist narrative of the Civil Rights Movement and the Jewish Question. […]
Southern Rabbis and Civil Rights
Arkansas Of the approximately 200 Southern rabbis, a total of 9 were active participants in the Civil Rights Movement. Of the 9 rabbis who were […]
Richmond Celebrates Father’s Day
Virginia 86 percent of black kids in Richmond don’t have fathers: “First Things First, an organization dedicated to keeping dads involved in kids’ lives, reports […]
“Outside Agitators”: Jews and the Civil Rights Movement
Dixie Kevin MacDonald writes: “This does not follow. One surely can’t argue that because one Jewish politician in one state opposed desegregation that Jews did […]
MLK and Southern Jews
Alabama Damn, this just keeps getting better and better: “Shortly before 6 A.M. on December 20, 1956, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. boarded a bus […]
Jewish Confederates
CSA In the antebellum era, Jews were more likely than Gentiles to own slaves and were disproportionately involved in the slave trade. Jews went along […]
Southern Jews and Reconstruction
Dixie Here’s another fascinating excerpt from Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights on how southern Jews reacted to the demise of the […]