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2. Haiti: One Year After Aristide Coup
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Winston,Bonnie V. (Author) and Blayton,Oscar H. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 10-Mar 16, 2005
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Washington Informer
- Journal Title Details:
- 20 : 1-1,31
- Notes:
- "The U.S. government would prefer to tell Haiti what to do and when and how to do it," said Eugenia Charles, the Haitian-born director of Fondasyon Mapou, a Washingtonbased group that seeks to improve the quality of life for Haitians. The group sponsors weekly demonstrations in front of the Haitian Embassy demanding that political prisoners be freed and democracy be restored in Haiti. Thomas Griffin, a Philadelphia attorney and human rights advocate who traveled to Haiti last year, presented details of his findings to members of the Congressional Black Caucus on March 2. His report, released by the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Miami School of Law, found that "Haiti's security and justice institutions fuel the cycle of violence. Summary executions are a police tactic, and even wellmeaning officers treat poor neighborhoods seeking a democratic voice as enemy territory where they must kill or be killed." [Barbara Lee]'s Haiti TRUTH (The Responsibility to Uncover the Tuth about Haiti) Act would form a TRUTH commission to investigate United States involvement in [JeanBertrand Aristide]'s removal.
3. Latin America and the Caribbean: an update and summary of the Summit of the Americas: hearing, May 6, 1998
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., Superintendent of Documents
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 59 p., Examines policy and progress in the Western Hemisphere, focusing on the second Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile, as a reflection of US government policy toward Latin America, and economic conditions, migrant rights, prison conditions, education, and other human rights issues; 1990s. Some focus on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR), and the US International Development Agency (USAID).
4. Our national identity in limbo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sylvain,Patrick (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 : 7
- Notes:
- While at its inception, the revolutionary ideals of the newly formed nation called Haiti held great promise, the reality as understood today detracts from this plesant image . Still , our rituals and their symbolic associations mirror these revolutionary ideals. For example, soup joummou, the New Year's and Independence Day celebratory pumpkin soup, signifies the communion of equals through the consumption of the once forbidden delicacy reserved for the colonial masters. Today, as family and friends gather around the dinner table, we are clearly proud of our freedom and accomplishments, yet know that there are countless Haitians who are hungry, sleeping under tents. Two hundred and eight years after independence, many Haitians live in abject poverty and have no rights as humans.
5. Robinson prepared to die for Haitian refugees
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wright,James (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1994-04-16
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Afro - American Red Star
- Journal Title Details:
- p. A3
- Notes:
- TransAfrica Executive Director Randall Robinson is prepared to starve himself to death in protest of the Clinton administration policy on Haiti, and he has the overwhelming support of the CBC.
6. Ship of Death : a Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,Billy G. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 306 p., Uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793. From its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, describes the ship's fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic.
7. The Domestic Politics of Humanitarian Intervention: Public Opinion, Partisanship, and Ideology
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hildebrandt,Timothy (Author), Hillebrecht,Courtney (Author), Holm,Peter M. (Author), and Pevehouse,Jon (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2013
- Published:
- Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(3) : 243-266
- Notes:
- Examines the sources of domestic political will for intervention, particularly the role of partisanship, ideology, and public opinion on Congressional members' willingness to support US intervention for humanitarian purposes. Analyzes several Congressional votes relevant to four episodes of US humanitarian intervention: Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Finds that public support for humanitarian intervention increases Congressional support and that other political demands, primarily partisanship and ideological distance from the president, often trump the normative exigencies of intervention.
8. U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wasem,Ruth Ellen (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- 2010-03-31
- Published:
- Congressional Research Reports for the People
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 16 p., The environmental, social, and political conditions in Haiti have long prompted congressional interest in US policy on Haitian migrants, particularly those attempting to reach the US by boat. Migrant interdiction and mandatory detention are key components of US policy toward Haitian migrants, but human rights advocates express concern that Haitians are not afforded the same treatment as other asylum seekers. The devastation caused by the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti has led Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians in the US at the time of the earthquake. Tables, Figures.
9. U.S. civil rights activist blasts immigration policy towards blacks
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2008
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : 4
- Notes:
- At the same time, [Jesse Jackson] lamented what he described as the "disparity" in how the U.S. government treats Cuban and Haitian refugees. Jackson said while the U.S. readily welcomes Cuban refugees, it neglects Haitians. "When Haitian children's parents die at sea they are sent back," he said. "We subsidize Cubans to come to the United States, but we ship Haitians out...We should change our policy and measure human rights by one yardstick." "The Cuban immigrants are called political refugees, and they are welcomed in the United States," he said. "The Haitian immigrants are called economic refugees, and they are sent back...There is a distinction without a difference."