...Peter James Hudson This essay examines the expansion of the National City Bank of New York into Haiti between the years 1909 and 1922 to demonstrate that, while National City's interest in Haiti often overlapped with the US State Department's strategic goals for the Caribbean region, this interest...

...Leah Gordon A selection from a photography and oral history project made over sixteen years during Carnival in Jacmel, southern Haiti, which employs costume, street theater, narrative, and satire to register Haiti's juncture between its history, its cosmology, and the present body politic. © 2013...

...David Geggus This review examines four works on revolutionary Haiti: Laurent Dubois's Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012); John D. Garrigus's Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (2006); Philippe R. Girard's The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint L'Ouverture...

...Matthew J. Smith This review examines recent historiography on contemporary Haiti, specifically Kate Ramsey's The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti (2011); Bernard Diederich's The Price of Blood: History of Repression and Rebellion in Haiti under Dr. François Duvalier, 1957 – 1961...

...Gary Wilder When an earthquake devastated the area around the Haitian capital city in January 2010, Laurent Dubois, a historian of Haiti working in the United States, was struck by the extent of the general ignorance about Haiti in the United States, and at the same time, at least for some...

..., seen primarily through the prism of the familiar, fantastical art of Haiti. The series examines exploitative marketing practices associated with Caribbean art. To show the relationship of the art industry to inexpensive cultural labor, Charlier and Juste depict tediously hand-­painted bolts...

... This article focuses on the logic of that historical conjunction, examining official cultural nationalist policy in Haiti during the late 1930s and early 1940s in relation to the postoccupation legal regime against les pratiques supersti- tieuses (superstitious...

... federal court cases leading to US anti-Haitian refugee policies, including Haitian Refugee Center v. Civiletti (1980) and Haitian Centers Council v. Sale (1993), while examining the history of Haiti's political economy and relation to the United States, as well as discourses of race, nation, and contagion...

... a deeper knowledge of history allow us to make better sense of the present of Haiti, the international role of the United States, and our own position as historical observers? How might our knowledge be useful, in a renewed effort to achieve another possible world? © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians...

...Toussaint Losier On January 12, 2010, several hours before a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, gunmen shot and killed Sociology Professor Jean Anil Louis-Juste as he was leaving the grounds of his department at the State University of Haiti. A tireless revolutionary and engaged...

...Lorelle D. Semley Haiti was not yet born when Toussaint Louverture wrote his 1801 Constitution as governor-general of the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Louverture declared loyalty to the French Republic and displayed his independent power with a third article declaring, “Here, all men are born...

... as they plan a third (but hopefully not final) conference, this time in Haiti. © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2013 interventions Transnational Hispaniola: Toward New Paradigms in Haitian and Dominican Studies April Mayes, Yolanda C. Martín, Carlos Ulises Decena...

...Paul Cheney This article is a microlevel study of the effects of international warfare on one sugar plantation situated in one of the most highly developed and profitable areas of sugar cultivation in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue (Haiti) during the War of American Independence (1775 – 83...

... in the United States, Haiti, China, and elsewhere that sought to find a scapegoat for the pandemic, the course then turns to the global power of the pharmaceutical industry. It examines the marketing and lobbying strategies of companies such as Gilead, which use the stigma of HIV/AIDS to transform impoverished...

..., then, that her next project more explicitly explores this question by focusing on folk culture and religion in the other America, specifically the Caribbean. Tell My Horse Hurston published Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica in 1938, just...

... in the United States, Haiti, and the larger African Diaspora. She is writing a book about Haitian resistance during the US occupation of the island in the early twentieth century. She thanks the Alexis and Nicolas clan for paving the way. Amy Chazkel is associate professor of history at the City...

... of Haiti. The character of Haitian rural society to this day represents the historical patrimony of people who learned to produce their own subsistence, and to market their surplus, in a state of slavery. And both Haitian and Jamaican marketplaces today continue to attest to the vitality...

... This course on the United States in the Atlantic world is an example of how some- one trained to research and teach U.S. history might use additional “American” his- tories—in this case those of Haiti and Cuba—to transform a course on nineteenth- century issues...

... they "work"? Is there validity to the popu- lar accusations in many countries that the democratic governments are "cor- rupt"? What are the implications of the recent free-market transitions for these new democracies? Why were constitutional processes shattered in Peru in 1992 and Haiti in 1991...

... movement ends, there is this problem for TransAfrica Forum, which is, if it is going to take up issues like Nigeria and Haiti, I think that there was some level of expec- tation that the same strategies and tactics that were used in the antiapartheid strug...