Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti

The following lecture was delivered to an audience at the University of California Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti

How Haiti Saved America

How Haiti Saved America Two centuries ago, a glittering Caribbean Island helped finance the Revolution By Ted Widmer  |  March 21, 2010 The United States has been leading the response to the Haitian earthquake for all of the reasons that we would expect: our geographical proximity, our competence at emergency response, and our innate generosity. [...]

President Thabo Mbeki on Haiti

Thabo Mbeki on Haiti  (Time Lives) “The Big Read: It was difficult to hold back the tears as a deluge of news told of the catastrophe visited on the people of Haiti by the earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince on January 12.  ON REFLECTION: Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Former president Thabo Mbeki says the people of Haiti are [...]

The Myth of “Voodoo”: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

The Myth of “Voodoo”: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti By Dianne Diakité Posted on January 20, 2010, Printed on January 23, 2010 http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/international/2204/   At a time when increasing numbers of informed audiences in both scholarly and popular circles have begun to recognize African religious cultures and the rich contributions they have [...]

“Civilizing” Haiti

“Civilizing” Haiti (Boston Review) Colin Dayan It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, along with numerous other places that we do not hear much about—Carrefour Feuille, Léogane, Petit Goave, Miragoâne, Jacmel. My friends in Haiti report that the UN and the U.S. military and the countless humanitarian aid agencies are nowhere to [...]

Haiti: the Hate and Quake, by Sir Hilary Beckles

  The Hate and the Quake 1/19/2010 By Sir Hilary Beckles The University of the West Indies is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme “Rethinking and Rebuilding Haiti”. I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been [...]

Haiti Needs Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Re: Aristide and Haiti From: Abdul Alkalimat <mcworter@ILLINOIS.EDU> Add to Contacts To: H-AFRO-AM@H-NET.MSU.EDU   // From: MOLEFI K. ASANTE <masante@temple.edu> Haiti Needs Jean-Bertrand Aristide President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is the one contemporary Haitian who brings the heroic legacies of L’Ouverture, Dessalines, Christophe, and Petion, the four horsemen of Haitian political history, to the current crisis. Aristide, [...]

City of St. Augustine Remembers Jorge Biassou

Haitian champion remembered Historical figure who lived interesting life could attract tourists to Nation’s Oldest City By ANTHONY DeMATTEO  |   More by this reporter  |  anthony.dematteo@staugustine.com  |   Posted: Sunday, August 30, 2009 ; Updated: 11:33 PM on Sunday, August 30, 2009 St. Augustine officials hope the legend of a man who helped lead history’s bloodiest slave revolt [...]