Monthly Archives: January 2011

Haiti: Jean-Claude Duvalier

By The Public Archive | Published: January 16, 2011
But if the father had been awesome yet comprehensible, the son, inheriting power as a nineteen-year-old cipher, had gradually emerged as something else, something foreign and decadent. Mark Danner, “Beyond the Mountains,” The New Yorker (November 27, 1989, December 4, 1989, December 11, 1989) The paranoia of the Duvalier family … is surpassed only by [...]
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Haiti: Rebuilding

By The Public Archive | Published: January 14, 2011
“What are we? Since that’s your question, I’m going to answer you. We’re this country, and it wouldn’t be a thing without us, nothing at all. Who does the planting? Who does the watering? Who does the harvesting? Coffee, cotton, rice, sugar cane, caco, corn, bananas, vegetables, and all the fruits, who’s going to grow [...]
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Port-au-Prince: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 04:53:10 PM

By The Public Archive | Published: January 12, 2011
Seismic recordings from British Geological Survey broadband stations in the UK of the magnitude 7.0 Haiti earthquake.
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Haiti: The Black Jacobins

By The Public Archive | Published: January 1, 2011
CLR James’ The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938, was a forbidden book in South Africa until the recent dismantling of apartheid. It’s not hard to see why. Scott McLemmee, “CLR James: A Biographical Introduction,” American Visions (April/May 1996) First of all, James cast doubt on the assumption that the revolution would take place first in [...]
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