Anatomy of a Haitian Tragedy: When the Fury of Nature Meets the Debility of the State

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gros,Jean-Germain (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2011
    Published:
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Black Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    42(2) : 131-157
    ISBN:
    0021-9347
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Haiti, Natural disasters, China (People's Republic), and Haiti earthquake, 2010
    Notes:
    Argues that geography and geology sparked the Haitian earthquake, but the extent of the destruction was due to the massive failure of Haitian institutions, in particular the state, and international policy, which predated the earthquake.

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