Interviews

“My hope is that one day Haiti will be under the radar like Barbados or St Lucia, that it will not be the destination of choice either for thrill seekers or bleeding hearts.”

Distance and Detours: An Interview with J. Michael Dash

“I think we’re at the beginning of a great flowering of work on Dessalines: it’s time to move beyond the more familiar portraits of him and really engage seriously with him as a major Atlantic political figure and thinker.”

Aftershocks and Avengers: An Interview with Laurent Dubois

“When I mentioned that the Americans had stopped Haiti’s client president’s salary, Munro was incredulous. I gave him an unimpeachable source, and he confessed that when he himself was doing research on the occupation and had come across a document detailing coercion of Haitian politicians, he couldn’t believe it, but when he looked at the bottom of the page he found his own signature!”

Archives and Anti-Colonialism: An Interview with Hans R. Schmidt

In the spring of 2012, The Public Archive began running a series of interviews with historians, writers, photographers, filmmakers and activists who work on Haiti, the Caribbean, and the Black World.

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Image: Orville Bulman, “Eavedroppers” (1957): Milwaukee Art Museum’s Richard and Erma Flagg Collection of Haitian Art