...Amy Chazkel; Melina Pappademos; Karen Sotiropoulos Editors’ Introduction Haitian Lives/Global Perspectives Haitian artists Vladimir Cybil Charlier and Andre Juste created the artwork that graces the cover of this issue. Entitled Brooklyn, the painting is part of a collab- orative series...

... challenges 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...

...A. Naomi Paik This article examines the case of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees the US state indefinitely detained on its Guantánamo naval base from 1991 to 1994. It argues that the predicament of these refugees emerged out of a nexus of historical threads that became entangled at...

...Kate Ramsey 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 02-RHR 84 Ramsey.btw 9/12/02 2:25 PM Page 7 Without One Ritual Note: Folklore Performance and the Haitian State, 1935–1946 Kate Ramsey...

... Haitian War of Independence, 1801 – 1804 (2011); and Jeremy Popkin's You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (2010). (re)views Haiti and Its Revolution: Four Recent Books David Geggus Laurent Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. New York: Metropolitan...

... article seeks to draw attention to the ways in which those on the Haitian left have sought to contend with the political repression and economic marginalization that have hindered the promise of the 1986 popular uprising against Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. Remembrance...

...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, the...

...Simon R. Doubleday This article reflects on the experience of teaching an online summer course that focused on rethinking history, in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake of January 2010, as an avenue for critical reflection about the present. Tracing the students' responses to course readings...

... Haitian constitutions in terms of gendered language of marriage and the family. As Louverture sought to transform racial slavery of the past into black citizenship for the future by enforcing ideals of order, purity, and the family, he presented new, problematic ways of thinking about “blackness...

... paper explores the forgotten experiment of removing and detaining Haitian refugees on an isolated military base in Puerto Rico, as an alternate location to Krome. In this vein, Krome's history maps military and migratory circuits between the United States and the Caribbean, and it underscores a longue...

...Jerry Philogene “Meditations on Traveling Diasporically: Jean-Ulrick Désert and Negerhosen2000 ” examines Negerhosen2000 , the complex multivisual performance project by Haitian-born artist Jean-Ulrick Désert. Jerry Philogene argues that Désert's transplanted Caribbean flaneur is an emblematic...

... Murderers among Us: History of Repression and Rebellion in Haiti under Dr. François Duvalier, 1962 – 1971 (2011); Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment (2010); Philippe Zacaïr's Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean (2011); and Haïti-Haitii? Philosophical...

... 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...

... was wrested away from Haitian control. Martial law reigned, and press censorship was the order of the day. Haiti’s elites were embittered by the humiliating historical interruption of the republic’s hard-­fought struggle for independence, while its peasant majority carried the bloody weight of...

... excessive for the majority of the Haitian people, and education stan- dards poor, but you will be hard pushed to find a Haitian who doesn’t know the vast and intimate details of his or her own history. Haitian culture is a potent vessel for this history, continually transmitting, telling, retelling...

... an overwhelming amount of preparation. The course began with the Haitian revolution and ended with the so-called Spanish-American war. I kept the United States at the center of the course, highlighting black and Cherokee nationalism, whiteness and Manifest...

... skills, skills that would serve them well when they became free. It is for this reason that I have referred to such slaves as “proto-peasantry,” and no case illustrates this more clearly than that of Saint Domingue. Between 1791 and 1804, the Haitian slaves rose against their masters...

... economic losses and social unrest took hold of these highly profitable, but essentially fragile, operations. A Colonial Cul de Sac Plantation Life in Wartime Saint-­Domingue, 1775 – 1782 Paul Cheney If, as Michel-­Rolph Trouillot claimed, the Haitian Revolution used to be “unthink- able” and...

... traditions as evidence of intrastate solidarity as well as a national heritage born outside of United States political and cul- tural influence. Kate Ramsey examines a prescient moment in the reformation of the Haitian nation-state following the withdrawal...