How Colonialism in the Caribbean Affects Hurricane Prep and Recovery

The devastation from Irma on the French Caribbean islands of St. Martin.

Yarimar Bonilla, associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (University of Chicago Press, 2015), talks about the colonial history- and present - of the Caribbean islands hit hard by Irma, and how that affects residents, and the islands' hurricane preparedness and recovery.