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| Author | : Daniel Whitman |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2005-01-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1553699505 |
Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince in 1999-2001, Daniel Whitman was haunted by the country's people and landscapes, its nuanced language, and complex and rewarding friendships. His friends included neighbors, art gallery owners, gas station attendants - but mostly Haiti's intrepid journalists and broadcasters. Unlike others, Whitman believed that the three elections of 2000 could advance Haiti's democracy and its development from the bottom rung as poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. He was wrong; they did not. Local supremacists killed, torched and rushed to fraud while foreigners forgave and even blessed the electoral debacles without posing the resistance even of meaningful public comment. However, seeds also germinated to make Haiti one day fit for its inventive, humor-loving and too often betrayed people. The effort was kept alive largely by Haiti's gritty journalists, going into hiding when necessary for their survival, but newly organized in October of 1999, into a tenacious and daring national federation. The nation-wide Haitian Press Federation advanced against all odds, and held eight regional meetings which changed political discourse forever in Haiti. The country now enters a post-Aristide interlude. The failure of one regime does not guarantee success for the next. A Haiti Chronicle offers recent context for understanding Haiti's current crisis, and opportunity.
| Author | : Gina Athena Ulysse |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2015-05-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0819575461 |
Winner of the Haitian Studies Association Excellence in Scholarship Award (2015) Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the feminist anthropologist and performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse embarked on a writing spree that lasted over two years. As an ethnographer and a member of the diaspora, Ulysse delivers critical cultural analysis of geopolitics and daily life in a series of dispatches, op-eds and articles on post-quake Haiti. Her complex yet singular aim is to make sense of how the nation and its subjects continue to negotiate sovereignty and being in a world where, according to a Haitian saying, tout moun se moun, men tout moun pa menm (All people are human, but all humans are not the same). This collection contains thirty pieces, most of which were previously published in and on Haitian Times, Huffington Post, Ms Magazine, Ms Blog, NACLA, and other print and online venues. The book is trilingual (English, Kreyòl, and French) and includes a foreword by award-winning author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
| Author | : Douglas Turner Ward |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2019-09-16 |
| Genre | : American drama |
| ISBN | : 9780578576114 |
A graphic and brutal history of the Haitian Revolution told across 3 plays by the influential and ground breaking playwright, Douglas Turner Ward.
| Author | : Laurent Dubois |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2012-01-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0805095624 |
A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. The country's difficulties are inextricably rooted in its founding revolution—the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers surrounding the island nation; and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. Dubois vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. He details how the crushing indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States—including a twenty-year military occupation—further undermined Haiti's independence. At the same time, Dubois shows, the internal debates about what Haiti should do with its hard-won liberty alienated the nation's leaders from the broader population, setting the stage for enduring political conflict. Yet as Dubois demonstrates, the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy, creating a powerful culture insistent on autonomy and equality for all. Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.
| Author | : Michael Deibert |
| Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2017-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783608005 |
The world’s first independent black republic, Haiti was forged in the fire of history’s only successful slave revolution. Yet more than two hundred years later, the full promise of that revolution – a free country and a free people – remains unfulfilled. Home for more than a decade to one of the world’s largest UN peacekeeping forces, Haiti's tumultuous political culture – buffeted by coups and armed political partisans – combined with economic inequality and environmental degradation to create immense difficulties even before the devastating 2010 earthquake killed tens of thousands of people. This grim tale, however, is not the whole story. In this moving and detailed history, Michael Deibert, who has spent two decades reporting on Haiti, chronicles the heroic struggles of Haitians to build their longed-for country in the face of overwhelming odds. Based on hundreds of interviews with Haitian political leaders, international diplomats, peasant advocates and gang leaders, as well as ordinary Haitians, Deibert’s book provides a vivid, complex and challenging analysis of Haiti’s recent history.
| Author | : Paul Farmer |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2012-07-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1610390989 |
The celebrated physician and anthropologist offers a vivid on-the-ground account of the relief effort in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake—and issues a powerful call to action. Reprint.
| Author | : Jonathan M. Katz |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2013-01-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137323957 |
On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and how the world reacted to a nation in need. More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a monumental response totaling $16.3 billion in pledges. But three years later the relief effort has foundered. It's most basic promises—to build safer housing for the homeless, alleviate severe poverty, and strengthen Haiti to face future disasters—remain unfulfilled. The Big Truck That Went By presents a sharp critique of international aid that defies today's conventional wisdom; that the way wealthy countries give aid makes poor countries seem irredeemably hopeless, while trapping millions in cycles of privation and catastrophe. Katz follows the money to uncover startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and what can be done to make aid "smarter." With coverage of Bill Clinton, who came to help lead the reconstruction; movie-star aid worker Sean Penn; Wyclef Jean; Haiti's leaders and people alike, Katz weaves a complex, darkly funny, and unexpected portrait of one of the world's most fascinating countries. The Big Truck That Went By is not only a definitive account of Haiti's earthquake, but of the world we live in today.
| Author | : Aldy Castor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-03-31 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781638482918 |
In Haiti, the impact of the Diaspora is significant and crucial. Over time, millions of Haitian nationals have come to financially depend on family, friends, and support organizations abroad for what is euphemistically called "remittances," at times more than two billion dollars a year.The pervasive and profoundly chronic utilitarian and financial need from the in-country receivers, the intense psychological feeling, strong unfulfilled self-validation, and deep remembrances from the givers abroad create between them a solid and long-term relational attachment that ultimately contributes to forging the identity of the Diaspora. This exchange and reciprocity are, in a way, the expression of a gift and a counter-gift.This relationship has profound consequences over the emergence of Haitians' capacities to engage in endogenous development. The Diaspora is attuned to this charity-versus-development problem, i.e., development-without-charity? or development-plus-charity? or how to make the transition from charity to development? In so many words, by what steps and conditions could eleven million Haitian nationals come out of their "caves?" By what phases could the Diaspora focus and coordinate for development rather than for survival?This anthology of disaster dispatches, guides, and allegories demonstrates the fine points of Diaspora strategy-making. The reality herein constantly disconcerts the author and his colleagues who, despite their broad knowledge of the land and the people of Haiti, discover and come to grips with more and more of the country's worst-kept secrets. The reader will encounter this in a stroll through "Bolivia 1" or the sight of someone desperately eating a spaghetti sandwich, or the paralyzing fear, superstition, and corrupt social control that shuts doors to the twenty-first century. As always, overcoming paralysis - whether personal or national - requires courage, new thinking, and lots of humility.
| Author | : Madison Smartt Bell |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2008-09-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307472507 |
"A serious historical novel that reads like a dream." --The Washington Post Book World "One of the most spohisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom." --San Francisco Chronicle NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST This first installment of the epic Haitian trilogy brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality. Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul’s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.
| Author | : Toni Pressley-Sanon |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2022-01-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813072204 |
Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize Gathering oral stories and visual art from Haiti and two of its "motherlands" in Africa, Istwa across the Water recovers the submerged histories of the island through methods drawn from its deep spiritual and cultural traditions. Toni Pressley-Sanon employs three theoretical anchors to bring together parts of the African diaspora that are profoundly fractured because of the slave trade. The first is the Vodou concept of marasa, or twinned entities, which she uses to identify parts of Dahomey (the present-day Benin Republic) and the Kongo region as Haiti's twinned sites of cultural production. Second, she draws on poet Kamau Brathwaite's idea of tidalectics—the back-and-forth movement of ocean waves—as a way to look at the cultural exchange set in motion by the transatlantic movement of captives. Finally, Pressley-Sanon searches out the places where history and memory intersect in story, expressed by the Kreyòl term istwa. Challenging the tendency to read history linearly, this volume offers a bold new approach for understanding Haitian histories and imagining Haitian futures.
