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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 39–65.
Published: 01 September 2010
...A. Naomi Paik This essay is a cultural analysis of the legal testimony given in Haitian Centers Council v. Sale (HCC III), a federal lawsuit brought against the U.S. state on behalf of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees imprisoned in a United States–operated refugee camp at Guantánamo Bay...
Journal Article
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the structure of the industry, they thought that a legislative strategy might be a way to mobilize workers and win lasting changes. Over six years DWU enlisted a multiethnic coalition of organizations in the city to work on a Bill of Rights campaign, including CAAAV, Andolan, Haitian Women for Haitian...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
... logics, such historical figures as
the Cuban national hero José Martí, the Cuban-exile salsera queen Celia
Cruz, the Haitian American hip-hop impresario Wyclef Jean, and some
notable literary writers, such as the Cuban American poet Rafael Campo...
Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 51–67.
Published: 01 June 2021
... , 159 . The Nat Turner rebellion of 1831, for instance, was frequently blamed on the influence of the Haitian Revolution. Whites’ terror that this influence would “infect” blacks with desires for both emancipation and black rule was prevalent throughout the hemisphere. This narrative obscured the long...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 151–157.
Published: 01 September 2010
...-
ing the coup against Aristide, three hundred Haitian refugees found to be
HIV-positive were interned by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service at the American base in Guantánamo where, in Paik’s terms, they
became “rightless subjects...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 73–79.
Published: 01 March 2018
...” laborers. When residents of the Dominican Republic wore T-shirts emblazoned with the image of a Dominican passport after 2015, they sent a disturbing nationalist message to the Haitian migrant laborers targeted for deportation — and even to the similarly targeted Dominicans of Haitian descent who hold one...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., a meditation on
the assembly and retrieval of Haitian history, provided what has contin-
ued to serve as one of the most influential outlines of archival power and
the mode of counterreading it necessitates: “To make the silences speak...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 59–81.
Published: 01 March 2009
...: Ghanaians who are native to Accra; those who have moved
from other places in the country; Nigerians or Liberians who now live in
Accra; Black South Africans visiting Ghana for the first time; Haitian
and Haitian Americans who have moved...
Journal Article
Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 59–75.
Published: 01 September 2023
... 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...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in the tes-
timonies of HIV-positive Haitians who sought refuge in the early 1990s.
Refugees are the quintessential dislocated subjects. The people Paik intro-
duces stand at the receiving end of a range of injustices: hailing from...
Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
....
31. A similar case can be seen in Susan Buck-Morss’s account of the ways
in which G. W. F. Hegel approached the Haitian Revolution and revolutionaries in
his dialectics. Although the Haitian Revolution provided...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 1–13.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that in the Haitian revolution, one of the
most bloody in history, the former slaves were “surprisingly moderate,
then and afterwards, far more humane than their masters had been or
would ever be to them. . . . The cruelties of property and privilege are
always more...
Journal Article
Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 81–98.
Published: 01 September 2006
... performed by family
members on smaller farms was increasingly left to hired workers on larger
farms. Over time, different ethnic groups have been employed in farm
work, including African Americans, Jamaicans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans...
Journal Article
Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 113–139.
Published: 01 December 2004
... pluses and minuses depending on the
investigators’, but the inhabitants are not there.
“Records” (fi g. 6) is a storefront on 116th Street that has been fi lled
with concrete. The current inhabitants of the tenement above are rela-
tive newcomers, Haitians, who are suspended between the history...
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 115–125.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., pronouncing during the exchange that “we are
in exactly the same position — you Americans (and I would even say, you
Haitians) — because, after all, you are under the yoke of an international
capitalism. We are in exactly the same political situation, and we are in
the same cultural situation.”23...
Journal Article
Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., then gasping, stumbling, teetering on the verge of rhythm- and fasting-induced hypnosis, returning to the sheer joy of motion in concert, of harmony with self and others and the houngor and Damballa and with all friends and enemies past, present, and future, with the wonders of the Haitian countryside...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 97–113.
Published: 01 June 2002
...,
and quotations from a popular Caribbean children’s ring game (from
which she borrows the novel’s title) with more familiar science fiction
conventions such as biotechnology and a postindustrial dystopic urban
setting. Midnight Robber is similarly syncretic, infusing allusions to Haitian
culture and references...
Journal Article
Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in illegal activity, declaring all those slaves brought from outside to be free. 15 This infamous lei pra inglês ver , or law for English eyes, was brazenly ignored with the deep complicity of law enforcement and slave traffickers. This was, after all, the Atlantic world in the aftermath of the Haitian...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 27–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
... day. It is difficult to imagine Marx having any insight into ongoing social dynamics and movements that proceed directly from slavery. C. L. R. James observed of the Haitian slaves that “they were closer to a modern proletariat than any other group of workers in existence at that time” and capable...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 53–75.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance ( New York:
Columbia University Press, 2006), 2.
38. Andrew Apter, “On African Origins: Creolization and Connaissance in
Haitian Vodou,” American Ethnologist 29, no. 2 (2002): 233 – 60...
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