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50books_poc2010-01-15 02:00 pm
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Rec Request: Haiti, Hispaniola
I am seeing much commentary on the ahistoricity of the news coverage of Haiti, especially with respect to U.S. imperialism, Haiti's legacies to the rest of the Americas, and the interlinked histories of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (no link; that's mostly me yelling at Robertson on the TV).
Through all this discussion of what isn't being talked about, most of the book-recs I've seen have been for white U.S. academics. I am very much feeling the lack of recs for POC authors. After several hours search this morning, I've been able to come up with:
Jean-Robert Cadet, Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle Class American
Can anyone chip in and make some more recs? I myself am preferentially looking for English-language histories, but please recommend fic or nonfic, in French or English, especially if the book is by Haitians themselves.
Through all this discussion of what isn't being talked about, most of the book-recs I've seen have been for white U.S. academics. I am very much feeling the lack of recs for POC authors. After several hours search this morning, I've been able to come up with:
- Edwidge Danticat, novels and memoirs (in-comm posts here)
- The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora (edited by Danticat)
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Aristide: An Autobiography (1993)
- Dignity (1996; memoir of his three years in exile after the 1991 coup)
- Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization (2000)
- Aristide: An Autobiography (1993)
Can anyone chip in and make some more recs? I myself am preferentially looking for English-language histories, but please recommend fic or nonfic, in French or English, especially if the book is by Haitians themselves.