Tag Archives: representation

Haiti: Cartography After the Quake

By The Public Archive | Published: January 12, 2013
OpenStreetMap – Project Haiti from ItoWorld on Vimeo. A visualisation of the response to the earthquake by the OpenStreetMap community. Within 12 hours the white flashes indicate edits to the map (generally by tracing satellite/aerial photography). Over the following days a large number of additions to the map are made with many roads (green primary, red [...]
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Radical Black Reading/Reading Haiti, 2012

By The Public Archive | Published: December 30, 2012
Easily the most hyped Haiti-related book to come out in the past year was Purpose: An Immigrant Story (It Books), the memoir of rapper-turned-presidential-candidate Wyclef Jean. They say Purpose is actually not that bad, especially if you’re interested in either Clef’s take on the dissolution of the Fugees or his embittered account of [...]
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10 Books For 2012

By The Public Archive | Published: December 24, 2012
Ten books we read in 2012 that surprised us, stayed with us, and made us see the world in a different light. Listed in no particular order. William Alpheus Hunton, Decision in Africa: Sources of Current Conflict (International Publishers, 1960). Walter Rodney approvingly cites Hunton’s Decision in Africa in his How Europe Underdeveloped Africa but [...]
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Henri Christophe, Proclaimed King of Haiti, 26 March 1811

By The Public Archive | Published: November 20, 2012
Michael Thompson, Henri I, King of Haiti (2010)
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Henri Christophe sets fire to Le Cap

By The Public Archive | Published: November 20, 2012
Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint L’Ouverture series, no. 32 (1938)
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Je renais de mes cendres

By The Public Archive | Published: November 20, 2012
...The reverse bears the inscription Les armoiries du Roi Henry Christophe, 1767-1820, Bâtisseur de La Citadelle (The arms of King Henry Christophe, 1767-1820, Builder of the Citadel). In the middle is the king’s coat of arms, a crowned phoenix rising from the flames, with stars in the firmament and the words, Je renais de mes cendres. (I [...]
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General L’Ouverture

By The Public Archive | Published: November 16, 2012
Ulysse Dabouze, “General L’Ouverture,” circa 1950.
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Untitled. Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982.

By The Public Archive | Published: November 12, 2012
Untitled conveys Jean-Michel Basquiat’s possession of an encyclopaedic intellect and prodigious ability to communicate a highly evocative yet masterfully succinct visual code. Fascinated by his own cultural heritage, his father of Haitian descent, this painting speaks to the legacy of white colonisation and black servitude. Bearing the emblematical three-pointed crown bracketed [...]
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