Migration & Exile

Facing the Mountains: Dominican Suppression and the Haitian Imagination

—Myriam J. A. Chancy

Exile, Deterritorialization, and Exoticism in René Depestre’s Hadriana dans tous mes rêves

—Martin Munro

Female Resistance

Réussir dans un Monde d’Hommes: les Stratégies des Femmes de Couleur du Cap-Français

—Dominique Rogers

Braiding Memories: Resistant Storytelling within Mother-Daughter Communities in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krik!

—Amanda Putnam

Investment & Intervention

Haiti and the Hemispheric Imperative to Invest: The Bulletin of the Pan American Union

—Jeffrey Sommers

African/Caribbean Linkages: Krio, Americo-Liberian and Haitian Elites in the Nineteenth Century

—Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

Spirit & Sound

Vodun and Jazz: “Jelly Roll” Morton and Lester “Pres” Young – Substance and Shadow

—Douglas Henry Daniels

Mardi Gras Indians and Second Lines / Sequin Artists and Rara Bands: Street Festivals and Performances in New Orleans and Haiti

—Richard Brent Turner

 

Book Reviews

Lumumba, by Raoul Peck

—Review by John Foran

Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home, by Nina Glick Schiller and Georges E. Fouron

—Review by Regine Ostine Jackson

Haitian Revolutionary Studies, by David Patrick Geggus

—Review by Gerald Horne

When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti, by Jennie Smith

—Review by Mark Schuller