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 […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Haiti: Jean-Claude Duvalier
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Tagged debt, dictatorship, Duvalier, Haiti, history, independence, sovereignty
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Haiti: Rebuilding
“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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Tagged economy, elites, Haiti, Jacques Roumain, Langston Hughes, literature, Mercer Cook, peasantry, rebuilding, sovereignty
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Port-au-Prince: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 04:53:10 PM
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
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 […]
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Tagged archives, CLR James, Haiti, history, independence, slavery, Toussaint
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