Glad for the Age of Revolutions year end review. I missed this in August, but good to read the day after Haitian Independence Day.
Always useful as a #HistoryTeacher to see that multiple views of the people *of their time*.A new-to-me example of the #Haitian Revolution influencing US political discourse. #TeachWorldHistory
@ERBeckman
I’m really weirded out by the author’s insistence on capitalizing ‘white’ – even going to the extent of altering quotations to make it seem like the people he’s quoting did that.
@tkinias hmm...I didn't notice that with the quotations and read through it as denoting "white" as a constructed political identity. The latter, of course, does not require capitalization.
@tkinias my reading may be too charitable
@ERBeckman
I know a few Black activists do capitalize ‘White’ for reasons that I don’t quite grasp, but generally it reads to me like a white-supremacist thing (or a clumsy attempt at parallelism with ‘Black’).
It jumped out at me as seeming quite anachronistic in 19C use, and so I checked one of the quotations...