With hurricane season right around the corner, concerns over the living arrangements of Haitians should be reaching something akin to a fever-pitch, and yet, there hasn't been much said (or done) about the 1,000 IDP camps still peppering the country. That is, until a few...
I have finally fleshed out the research agenda: Citizenship has been at the fore of political struggles since before the Haitian Revolution in Saint Domingue, and later Haiti. Beginning with the tightening of colonial citizenship conferral on people of color in 1769, followed by the struggles...
By all accounts, i should be conferenced out; but, i dragged myself out to another one today and was delightfully surprised by the fantastic talk given by Carolle Charles from Baruch College, CUNY. The event is the Bridging the Antilles: Caribbean Conference Spring 2011, put...
Aristide returned to Haiti today. I made the mistake of clicking on the first article that popped up. The LA Times managed to publish a poorly written article that somehow lack any actual analysis of any of the history or implication of his return beyond...
There's been a long pause of bated breath as Haitians await his return. There is tension about his request for return. CNN, in its usual bland style, gently reminds readers that: Aristide was Haiti's first democratically-elected president. He was toppled in 2004 after a bloody...