... in which the refugees testify to their experiences of rightlessness — ­of persecution and escaping Haiti and of their lives inside the Guantánamo camp. Recognizing the status and stakes of this testimonial record as a form of evidence...

... into what the article calls the barbed ecologies of the hills of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, sites of black and indigenous marronage and symbiosis. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 choreography Ligia Lewis the Caribbean black fugitivity marronage ecology “How do I...

... sedimentalized (and continues to be sedimentalized) through coercive forms of power — soldiers, weaponry, prisons, detention camps, and other military apparatuses — contributing to an overly present, if also transnationalized state apparatus.  — Jana Evans Braziel, “Haiti...

..., “Talk about Haiti,” 36. 27. Muhammad, “Closing Remarks.” 28. Castle, “Caribbean Nations Seek Reparations”; Pilkington, “Caribbean Nations Prepare Demand for Slavery Reparations.” 29. The most definitive scholarly...

..., translation, and sovereignty, falls from view, sharply limiting the futures we can imagine. The recent dev- astations in Haiti hammer this point home once again, as pathos over the “natural” disaster of the earthquake is paired with defamatory blaming...

... was talking about Haiti, everything she talked about. And everybody got it, and we’re sitting here translating, but everybody got it.” 21 DWU provided its globalization trainings for groups like HWHR, which also helped draw Haitian domestic workers into the Bill of Rights campaign. At the start...

... to reach the Now. In the Atlantic world, such history is never far away. Its specters walk on what is known in Haiti as tè glisse , “slippery ground.” 37 According to Haitian novelist Edwige Danticat, “Even under the best of circumstances, the country can be stable one moment and crumbling the next...

... and Nicolson , 1998 . Ferrer Ada . Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Finlailon John . “ Slave Compensation Fund .” UK House of Commons Parliamentary Papers , August 17 , 1836 . Fogel Robert Engerman...

... to overwhelm media and scholarship (most infamously in coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti). This narrative device submerges public attention to infrastruc- tural weakness. More useful would be a straightforward discussion...

... of to global intervention going back to Nicaragua and Haiti in the 1920s. But the developing world—the main arena of neo-imperial discourse accumulation about “failed nations” and postmodern “white men’s burdens”—is increas- ingly a universe of urban slums and shantytowns. Mao’s paradigmatic...

..., including St. Louis, California, Virginia, Florida, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. Thus, the Harlem that Hughes evokes is a trans- local space. The “magnet Harlem” was a site of multiple and continuous migrations, of people flowing in and out and returning to the homelands and going back...

... as Africans from black Africa, North Americans, Antilleans, and Madagascans. To me the answer seems obvious: the common denominator is the colonial situation. It is a fact that most black countries live under a colonial regime. Even an independent country such as Haiti is in fact in many...

... alchemical practices and dirt. Many thanks to Lily Mengesha for pointing me to this. 28. Renny, History of Jamaica , 192 . 29. Lee, “Grave Dirt.” 30. Handler and Bilby, Enacting Power , 46 . 31. Cited in Dayan, Haiti, History, and the Gods , 193 . 32. Ferreira da...

... inexorably frames the differential production of human life. The Third World and racialized poor become the shock troops of environmental disaster, as racialized death becomes an integral part of the story: the 2010 and 2008 earthquakes in Haiti and Sichuan, China, as well as Hurricane Katrina in 2005...

... attention to less formal moments of transnational exchange, as when police from the Bootheel town Steele arrested four African Americans from St. Louis who were “carrying letters from black internationalists in Jamaica, Haiti, and Liberia.”55 To this list...

... of Haiti: History under Conditions of Impossibility” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008). 4. See Stephan Palmié, “Thinking with Ngangas: Reflections on Embodiment and the Limits of ‘Objectively Necessary Appearances...

...). 2. David Graeber, “The New Anarchists,” New Left Review 13 (2002): 62. 3. Gregory A. Beckett, “The End of Haiti: History under Conditions of Impossibility” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008). 4. See Stephan Palmié...

... of Haiti: History under Conditions of Impossibility” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008). 4. See Stephan Palmié, “Thinking with Ngangas: Reflections on Embodiment and the Limits of ‘Objectively Necessary Appearances...

... of Haiti: History under Conditions of Impossibility” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008). 4. See Stephan Palmié, “Thinking with Ngangas: Reflections on Embodiment and the Limits of ‘Objectively Necessary Appearances...

...). 2. David Graeber, “The New Anarchists,” New Left Review 13 (2002): 62. 3. Gregory A. Beckett, “The End of Haiti: History under Conditions of Impossibility” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008). 4. See Stephan Palmié...