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...Amy Chazkel; Melina Pappademos; Karen Sotiropoulos © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Editors’ Introduction Haitian Lives/Global Perspectives...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801 – 1804 (2011); and Jeremy Popkin's You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (2010). Dubois Laurent , Haiti: The Aftershocks of History . New York : Metropolitan Books , 2012 . Garrigus John D. , Before Haiti: Race...

..., this 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. © 2013 by MARHO...

... 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 durée...

... and 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...

... distorted the relationship between popular culture and the state—a misrepresentation that was essential to the Duvalier regime’s legitimacy. The monument’s shifting meanings from its origins to the present illuminate the interplay between freedom and authoritarianism across Haitian culture and national...

...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...

...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...

... 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 the US...

...- cation of his Life in a Haitian Valley in 1937.23 The doctoral thesis of Katherine Dunham, another major African American female anthropologist, entitled “The Dances of Haiti” was published in 1947.24 A photographer and dance enthusiast/stu- dent, Maya...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... how James might be seen to have helped inspire contemporary theorizing around the “plantationocene” in his classic history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938). As early as 1951, James (and his fellow thinkers) noted: “It is not the world of nature that confronts man as an alien power...

... as participants shared how their own histories traversing a multitude of borders and environmental traumas brought them to embrace visions of border abolition. Five roundtable participants are affiliated with US- and Mexico-based migrant rights organizations: the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a cross-border...

... 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...

.... History, in Haiti, still feels revolutionary. School fees are 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...