"Traces the history of Haitian classical or "learned" music from the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century by examining the state's role as a patron to the arts, the development of the educational system, the call for a national Haitian music in the early twentieth century, and individual composer's biographies." (author)
On October 15th, 1994, the Clinton administration permitted Aristide to return to Haiti to complete his term in office, but under the conditions that he adapt the economic program of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of the defeated US backed candidate Marc Savin from the 1990 elections.
"In August, with Haiti still in a political quagmire and plans for another U.S. military invasion looming, ...more than 200 other Haitian scholars from around the world had education on their minds. Haiti's best and brightest teachers, administrators and professors came to New York's City College from nearby Brooklyn and as far away as Africa, Belgium, Germany and Canada to discuss how they could help build and reform what's left of the education system." (BDH)
"Examines Haitian identity in the Dominican popular imagination before the 1937 Haitian massacre and interrogates how the transformation of the Dominican frontier into a border in the first decades of the 20th century changed local meanings of raza or race. As the Dominican border became part of the global economy, Haitian-Dominican relations were commodified; and the division between neighbors and blood kin was remapped." --The Author
