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Wall Street’s Caribbean Crime Spree
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
13 Feb 2018
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Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, by UCLA historian Peter Hudson, “is a beautiful, innovative, angry and impeccably researched text,” said Dr. Deborah Thomas, professor of anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. “The theoretical force of the book is embedded in its story-telling.”

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