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Carrie Gibson

Carrie Gibson is author of Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day. Her next book, El Norte: The Forgotten Hispanic Past of the United States, will be published in 2018.

Latest articles by Carrie Gibson

The Big Idea
How colonialism and racism explain the inept US response to Hurricane MariaHow colonialism and racism explain the inept US response to Hurricane Maria
The Big Idea

US senator, 1898: Puerto Ricans can’t govern themselves. President Trump, 2017: They “want everything done for them.”

By Carrie Gibson