A Haiti Chronicle
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A Haiti Chronicle
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Author : Daniel Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2005-01-13
A Haiti Chronicle written by Daniel Whitman and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-13 with Political Science categories.
Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince in 1999-2001, Daniel Whitman was haunted by the country's people and landscapes, its nuanced language, and complex and rewarding friendships. His friends included neighbors, art gallery owners, gas station attendants - but mostly Haiti's intrepid journalists and broadcasters. Unlike others, Whitman believed that the three elections of 2000 could advance Haiti's democracy and its development from the bottom rung as poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. He was wrong; they did not. Local supremacists killed, torched and rushed to fraud while foreigners forgave and even blessed the electoral debacles without posing the resistance even of meaningful public comment. However, seeds also germinated to make Haiti one day fit for its inventive, humor-loving and too often betrayed people. The effort was kept alive largely by Haiti's gritty journalists, going into hiding when necessary for their survival, but newly organized in October of 1999, into a tenacious and daring national federation. The nation-wide Haitian Press Federation advanced against all odds, and held eight regional meetings which changed political discourse forever in Haiti. The country now enters a post-Aristide interlude. The failure of one regime does not guarantee success for the next. A Haiti Chronicle offers recent context for understanding Haiti's current crisis, and opportunity.
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives
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Author : Gina Athena Ulysse
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-25
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives written by Gina Athena Ulysse and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-25 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Haitian Studies Association Excellence in Scholarship Award (2015) Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the feminist anthropologist and performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse embarked on a writing spree that lasted over two years. As an ethnographer and a member of the diaspora, Ulysse delivers critical cultural analysis of geopolitics and daily life in a series of dispatches, op-eds and articles on post-quake Haiti. Her complex yet singular aim is to make sense of how the nation and its subjects continue to negotiate sovereignty and being in a world where, according to a Haitian saying, tout moun se moun, men tout moun pa menm (All people are human, but all humans are not the same). This collection contains thirty pieces, most of which were previously published in and on Haitian Times, Huffington Post, Ms Magazine, Ms Blog, NACLA, and other print and online venues. The book is trilingual (English, Kreyòl, and French) and includes a foreword by award-winning author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
Travel Chronicles A Diaspora In Haiti
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Author : Aldy Castor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-31
Travel Chronicles A Diaspora In Haiti written by Aldy Castor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with categories.
In Haiti, the impact of the Diaspora is significant and crucial. Over time, millions of Haitian nationals have come to financially depend on family, friends, and support organizations abroad for what is euphemistically called "remittances," at times more than two billion dollars a year.The pervasive and profoundly chronic utilitarian and financial need from the in-country receivers, the intense psychological feeling, strong unfulfilled self-validation, and deep remembrances from the givers abroad create between them a solid and long-term relational attachment that ultimately contributes to forging the identity of the Diaspora. This exchange and reciprocity are, in a way, the expression of a gift and a counter-gift.This relationship has profound consequences over the emergence of Haitians' capacities to engage in endogenous development. The Diaspora is attuned to this charity-versus-development problem, i.e., development-without-charity? or development-plus-charity? or how to make the transition from charity to development? In so many words, by what steps and conditions could eleven million Haitian nationals come out of their "caves?" By what phases could the Diaspora focus and coordinate for development rather than for survival?This anthology of disaster dispatches, guides, and allegories demonstrates the fine points of Diaspora strategy-making. The reality herein constantly disconcerts the author and his colleagues who, despite their broad knowledge of the land and the people of Haiti, discover and come to grips with more and more of the country's worst-kept secrets. The reader will encounter this in a stroll through "Bolivia 1" or the sight of someone desperately eating a spaghetti sandwich, or the paralyzing fear, superstition, and corrupt social control that shuts doors to the twenty-first century. As always, overcoming paralysis - whether personal or national - requires courage, new thinking, and lots of humility.
The Haitian Chronicles By Douglas Turner Ward
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Author : Douglas Turner Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-16
The Haitian Chronicles By Douglas Turner Ward written by Douglas Turner Ward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with American drama categories.
A graphic and brutal history of the Haitian Revolution told across 3 plays by the influential and ground breaking playwright, Douglas Turner Ward.
Haiti
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Author : Michelle Etnire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Haiti written by Michelle Etnire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Orphanages categories.
Haiti Will Not Perish
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Author : Michael Deibert
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2017-07-15
Haiti Will Not Perish written by Michael Deibert and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with History categories.
The world’s first independent black republic, Haiti was forged in the fire of history’s only successful slave revolution. Yet more than two hundred years later, the full promise of that revolution – a free country and a free people – remains unfulfilled. Home for more than a decade to one of the world’s largest UN peacekeeping forces, Haiti's tumultuous political culture – buffeted by coups and armed political partisans – combined with economic inequality and environmental degradation to create immense difficulties even before the devastating 2010 earthquake killed tens of thousands of people. This grim tale, however, is not the whole story. In this moving and detailed history, Michael Deibert, who has spent two decades reporting on Haiti, chronicles the heroic struggles of Haitians to build their longed-for country in the face of overwhelming odds. Based on hundreds of interviews with Haitian political leaders, international diplomats, peasant advocates and gang leaders, as well as ordinary Haitians, Deibert’s book provides a vivid, complex and challenging analysis of Haiti’s recent history.
The Haitian Chronicles
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Author : Tom Parsons
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-09-05
The Haitian Chronicles written by Tom Parsons and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-05 with categories.
In 15 years of travel and work in Haiti, The Rev. Tom Parsons, a retired Presbyterian minister and his wife, JoEllen have met and become friends with many Haitians. They started a primary school in the mountains of southwestern Haiti which has now provided free education and hot meals to more than 200 Haitians from the Labastille community, about an hour and a half by motorcycle and foot from the city of Jeremie. The poems in this book reflect on Tom's 15 years of traveling to, and working in Haiti. They are about the people and places he and JoEllen encountered during those 15 years of ministry in this economically poor, but spiritually rich nation. Both touching and reflective, some of the poems also consider the humorous situations often encountered in missionary ministry. The Haitian Chronicles is the second book of poems published by Tom. His first book, Soul Country was a result of a three month sabbatical trip around the U.S. on the back of an old BMW motorcycle he called Sonbeem."
Contrary Destinies
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Author : Leon D. Pamphile
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2017-03-15
Contrary Destinies written by Leon D. Pamphile and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-15 with History categories.
"Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and political scientists interested in international relations between the United States and other countries in the region."--Leslie G. Desmangles, author of The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti "Unpacks the cultural, political, and economic impact of U.S. occupation, and by extension, American imperialism in Haiti."--Quito Swan, author of Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization In 1915, United States Marines arrived in Haiti to safeguard lives and property from the political instability of the time. While there, the Marine Corps controlled everything from finance to education, from health care to public works and built an army, "La Garde d’Haiti," to maintain the changes it implemented. Ultimately, the decisions made by the United States about and for Haiti have indelibly shaped the development of what is generally considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Contrary Destinies presents the story of the one hundred year relationship between the two countries. Leon Pamphile chronicles the internal, external, and natural forces that have shaped Haiti as it is today, striking a balance between the realities faced by the people on the island and the global and transnational contexts that affect their lives. He examines how American policies towards the Caribbean nation--during the Cold War and later as the United States became the sole world superpower--and the legacies of the occupation contributed to the gradual erosion of Haitian independence, culminating in a second occupation and the current United Nations peacekeeping mission. Leon D. Pamphile is founder and executive director of the Functional Literacy Ministry of Haiti. He is the author of Haitians and African Americans: A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope.
Underd Nigt Bet Nkande
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
Underd Nigt Bet Nkande written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with categories.
The Big Truck That Went By
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Author : Jonathan M. Katz
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2013-01-08
The Big Truck That Went By written by Jonathan M. Katz and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-08 with History categories.
On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and how the world reacted to a nation in need. More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a monumental response totaling $16.3 billion in pledges. But three years later the relief effort has foundered. It's most basic promises—to build safer housing for the homeless, alleviate severe poverty, and strengthen Haiti to face future disasters—remain unfulfilled. The Big Truck That Went By presents a sharp critique of international aid that defies today's conventional wisdom; that the way wealthy countries give aid makes poor countries seem irredeemably hopeless, while trapping millions in cycles of privation and catastrophe. Katz follows the money to uncover startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and what can be done to make aid "smarter." With coverage of Bill Clinton, who came to help lead the reconstruction; movie-star aid worker Sean Penn; Wyclef Jean; Haiti's leaders and people alike, Katz weaves a complex, darkly funny, and unexpected portrait of one of the world's most fascinating countries. The Big Truck That Went By is not only a definitive account of Haiti's earthquake, but of the world we live in today.