Explain your reading of James Weldon Johnson’s 1920 description of the US occupation of Haiti (“The Truth About Haiti”) to support what Danticat says above?
2nd part In “So Brutal a Death,” Edwidge Danticat describes her reaction to the murder of George Floyd: the image of these police officers squeezing the life out of Floyd might serve as a metaphor for the way U.S. Administrations have, for generations, dealt with the countries many of us come from—through invasions, occupations, wars, […]