Unequal Distribution and Other Poems
Claudine Michel, a native of Haiti, is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds BA degrees from the State University of Haiti and an MA and PhD in International Education from the University of California. Since 1997, she has served as editor of the premier academic journal on Haiti, the Journal of Haitian Studies. She is a founding member of KOSANBA, a scholarly association for the study of Haitian Vodou, and Kalfou, a journal of comparative and relational ethnic studies. Among other works, she is also co-editor of The Black Studies Reader (Routledge, 2004), as well as Invisible Powers: Vodou In Haitian Life and Culture (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006) and Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality (Indiana University Press, 2006). She currently serves as consultant for the Direct Relief International communitygrant programs in Haiti established after the quake.
Claudine Michel; Unequal Distribution and Other Poems. Meridians 1 September 2011; 11 (1): 158–162. doi: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.158
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