Tag: Haiti

  • Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.

  • “Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America” explores the dynamic interplay between racial politics and hegemonic power in the region. It investigates the fluid intersection of social power and racial politics and their impact on the region’s histories, politics, identities and cultures.

  • “We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.

  • What is the role of an artist in the face of political repression? What is the place of culture in the midst of injustice and terror? Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973), author of powerful novels representing the experience of living under the Duvalier dictatorship, confronted such questions throughout her life.

  • Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars…

  • Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination African American Intellectual History Society 2016-03-13 Brandon Bryd, Assistant Professor of History Mississippi State University John Mercer Langston Mathew Brady – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00690. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771 In the fall of 1877, John Mercer Langston laid on his bed…

  • Arcade Fire Exploited Haiti, and Almost No One Noticed The Atlantic 2013-11-12 Hayden Higgins Arcade Fire / JF Lalonde The band has a deep, sincere relationship with the Caribbean nation. But even so, Reflektor’s marketing campaign has perpetuated stereotypes. Months before Arcade Fire’s new album came out, I learned of its existence when social media…

  • In “Love, Anger, Madness,” Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under “Papa Doc” Duvalier.

  • This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond.

  • Infiltrating the colonial city through the imaginaries of Metissage: Saint-Louis (Senegal), Saint-Pierre (Martinique) and Jeremie (Haiti) University of Iowa August 2015 281 pages Avonelle Pauline Remy, Assistant Professor of French Hope College, Holland, Michigan A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in French and Francophone World Studies…