{"id":2891,"date":"2024-10-23T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:40:06","slug":"professor-philip-kaisary-on-donald-trumps-racist-anti-haitian-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/2024\/professor-philip-kaisary-on-donald-trumps-racist-anti-haitian-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Philip Kaisary on Donald Trump\u2019s racist, anti-Haitian claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Philip Kaisary on Donald Trump\u2019s racist, anti-Haitian claims\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/Kaisary-Philip-200x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2892\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in <em>Lacuna Magazine<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/kaisary-philip\/\">Professor Philip Kaisary<\/a>\u2019s piece titled \u201cThey\u2019re eating the pets\u201d: The deep history behind Trump\u2019s racist, anti-Haitian lies\u201d comments on Donald Trump\u2019s recent false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have been eating the town\u2019s pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He situates these baseless claims in the long history of anti-Haitian denigration to demonstrate that the supposedly glorious American past to which Trump\u2019s project seeks to turn back the clock is in fact a past in which systemic terror was waged against people of African descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/lacuna.org.uk\/migration\/the-history-behind-trumps-racist-anti-haitian-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in Lacuna Magazine, Professor Philip Kaisary\u2019s piece titled \u201cThey\u2019re eating the pets\u201d: The deep history behind Trump\u2019s racist, anti-Haitian lies\u201d comments on Donald Trump\u2019s recent false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have been eating the town\u2019s pets. He situates these baseless claims in the long history of anti-Haitian denigration to demonstrate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}