333 p., Examines both historical and contemporary attempts by the people of Ouidah, Benin Republic in West Africa and in the Caribbean country of Haiti to confront and reconcile their relationship via the transatlantic slave trade. Oral and visual narrative have been central to this process as people represent, reflect and interpret a past that is fraught with gaps, silences and erasures. Proposes that the process of remembrance mirrors a traditional rites of passage whereby one lives as part of a community, dies to the past and then is reborn anew in the community. Both Ouidahans and Haitians now occupy a liminal space--an exilic space--in which they struggle to remember a past that was for many years repressed and suppressed.
203 p., This research sterns from twelve months of ethnographic research with Haitian migrant women who reside in Batey Sol , a former sugar-company labor camp located along the Línea Noroeste (northwest line) linking the Dominican Rebulic's border town of Dajabón with the urban center of Santiago. The multi-sited study considers the larger network of political, social, and economic structures and relations of power in which these women are positioned in their daily lives and through their livelihoods as market women.
Hefferan,Tara (Editor), Adkins,Julie (Editor), and Occhipinti,Laurie (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 238 p.
Notes:
Includes /Bretton Alvaré's "Fighting for 'livity': Rastafari politics in a neoliberal state" and Tara L. Hefferan's "Encouraging development 'alternatives': grassroots church partnering in the U.S. and Haiti"
This paper explores the African Diaspora and the psychological, social, political, and economic effects of the Atlantic slave trade on people of African descent in the historical fiction text The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat and the travel narrative The Atlantic Sound by Caryl Phillips. By examining the complex history of the British and French slave trade and its later consequences in the twentieth century, this paper examines the connection between the evidence of displacement and the search for identity coupled with the idea of healing in regards to trauma suffered by the spirits of Danticats' and Phillips' characters symbols of those in the African Diaspora.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
15 p., Warns about a series of crises that have increased the potential for serious trouble in Haiti. Suggests there is an urgent need for broad political consensus and improved relations between the executive and legislative branches of government, as well as a government-donor-civil society partnership to kick-start a community-oriented reconstruction process. This includes building a social safety net for hurricane victims and jobs-oriented infrastructure projects that prioritize areas hard-hit by the floods, boosting agriculture and enhancing a longer-term poverty reduction and economic growth strategy.
276 p., A critical examination of Haitian migration and displacement in North America that engages both a theoretical and literary analysis of exile and diaspora as consequences of migration and displacement. Argues that Haitian writers in North America inscribe migration by troping exile and diaspora to speak of the predicament of displaced migratory subjects and their inevitable crossings of places, landscapes, borders, cultures, and nations. Analyzes three novels by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), The Farming of Bones (1998), and the Dew Breaker (2004); and two novels by Haitian Canadian writer Myriam Chancy: Spirit of Haiti (2003) and The Scorpion's Claw (2005).
Writer Zora Neale Hurston notes the identity and culture of the Africans in the U.S., in which there is struggle in resisting with violence against the slave societies and racial discrimination to maintain the culture. Mentions the association of black ritual practices on Hurston's writings, "Mules and Men" and "Moses, Man of the Mountain," where slavery is considered as factor of spreading the folk arts.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
278 p., In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise.
Geggus,David P. (Author) and Fiering,Norman (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
419 p, Contents: Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution /; David Geggus --; Vestiges of the built landscape of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Jacques de Cauna --; Saint-Domingue's free people of color and the tools of revolution /; John D. Garrigus --; On the road to citizenship : the complex route to integration of the free people of color in the two capitals of Saint-Domingue /; Dominique Rogers --; The trans-Atlantic king and imperial public spheres : everyday politics in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Gene E. Ogle --; The insurgents of 1791, their leaders, and the concept of independence /; Yves Benot --; Avenging America : the politics of violence in the Haitian Revolution /; Laurent Dubois --; "Fêtes de l'hymen, fêtes de la liberté" : marriage, manhood, and emancipation in revolutionary Saint-Domingue /; Elizabeth Colwill --; "The colonial vendée" /; Malick Ghachem --; The Saint-Domingue slave revolution and the unfolding of independence, 1791-1804 /; Carolyn E. Fick --; The French Revolution's other island /; Jeremy D. Popkin --; Speaking of Haiti : slavery, revolution, and freedom in Cuban slave testimony /; Ada Ferrer --; The Saint-Dominguan refugees and American distinctiveness in the early years of the Haitian Revolution /; Ashli White --; "Free upon higher ground" : Saint-Domingue slaves' suits for freedom in U.S. courts, 1792-1830 /; Sue Peabody --; Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil, 1791-1850 /; Joao José Reis and Flavio dos Santos Gomes --; The specter of Saint-Domingue : American and French reactions to the Haitian Revolution /; Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall --; Representations of the Haitian Revolution in French literature /; Léon-François Hoffmann --; Neoclassicism and the Haitian Revolution /; Carlo Céliu
