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Carrie Gibson

Carrie Gibson
Carrie Gibson is the author of Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day. She received a PhD from Cambridge University, focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution, and has worked as a journalist for the Guardian and contributed to other publications, as well as the BBC. She lives in London.


How the United States Became a Part of Latin America

On Race, Borders and Belonging
March 8, 2019  By Carrie Gibson
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