Volume 29, Number 2 (Fall 2023)

Material Conditions in Rural and Urban Settings: Documenting and Resisting Threats to Quality of Life 

Résistance paysanne contre le mégaprojet touristique Destination Île-à-Vache 

Walner Osna

Household Characteristics and Resource Access among Haitian and Haitian Dominican Families in the Puerto Plata Area, Dominican Republic

Shahna Arps & Karie Jo Peralta

Haitian Frameworks for Understanding Literature, Diaspora, and Human Relationships

Édouard Glissant and Maurice Sixto: The Diversity of Haiti through its Creole Lodyans

Paul Fadoul

The Lambi Model: Haiti, Temporality, and a Holistic Methodology

Magda Desgranges

Research Notes

Kreyòl Gade, Kreyòl Konprann: A Multilingual Catalog of Haitian Cinema 

Meaghan Jeanne Coogan & Laura Vargas Zuleta

Quiet as Drawings: Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano

Kwynn Johnson

Roundtable Discussion on Jean Casimir’s The Haitians: A Decolonial History, with a Response from the Author

Curated by Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo & Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

An Introductory Note from the Book Review Editors

Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo & Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

Nasyon State: Haitians in a Decolonial World 

Matthew J. Smith

Le Peuple Souverain and the Making of a Nation in Jean Casimir’s History of the Haitians

Carolyn Fick

A Spiralist Analysis of the Colonial Legacy at the Roots of Haiti’s Social Dysfunctions

Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo

How Multiple Textures of Daily Life Created a Singular Nation

LeGrace Benson

A Call for a Variegated Knowledge of Our History

Michel Hector

Le Discours impérial et le vécu des Haïtiens : Réponse de l’auteur

Jean Casimir

Book Reviews

The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society, by Philippe-Richard Marius

Reviewed by Julia Goyatá

The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society, by Philippe-Richard Marius

Reviewed by Carlo A. Célius

Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou and Secularism, by Celucien L. Joseph

Reviewed by Leyneuf Tines

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution, by Marlene L. Daut

Reviewed by Jonathan S. Lower

Jean-Claude Charles, a Reader’s Guide, edited by Eliana Văgălău and Martin Munro

Reviewed by Stéphane Saintil