100 Years of Perpetual Occupation: Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy in Haiti

View of the Sainte Marie neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 19, 2016, with the Bay of Port-au-Prince in the background 

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Admirers of Woodrow Wilson overlook his crimes against the Haitian people a century ago.

For the reverberations of Wilsonian racism, look no further than the island nation of Haiti. The two countries share a revolutionary heritage that began with independence—the U.S. in 1776, then Haiti in 1804—against European colonialism. However, that shared legacy was short-lived as racism increasingly defined U.S. policies toward the Haitian republic.

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