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Books on the Caribbean
Hubert Cole. Christophe: King of Haiti. New
York: The Viking Press, 1967.
C.L.R. James.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
(1938)
Edourad Gissant.
Caribbean Doscourse (2004)
/ Barbara Harlow.
Resistance Literature (1987)
Josaphat B. Kubayanda.
The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime
Cesaire
(1990)
Paul Laraque and Jack Hirschman.
Open
Gate An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry
(2001)
David P. Geggus, ed.
The Impact of the
Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World.
University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Jean-Bertand Aristide.
Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a
Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization
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Congresswoman
Maxine Waters
Letter to
Colin Powell on Repression in Haiti
April 1, 2004
The Honorable
Colin Powell
Secretary of
State
Department of
State
2201 C Street,
NW, Room 7261
Washington, DC
20520
Dear Secretary Powell:
We write to urge you to provide all necessary personal
protection, and safe passage out of Haiti should they choose to
leave, to Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and other Lavalas
Party officials whose lives are being threatened in Haiti.
Prime Minister Neptune had his home burned down during
last month's uprising. Because
of the substantial risks to his life, he went into hiding on
March 10, 2004, after his successor, Gerard Latortue, took
office. Since that
time, Prime Minister Neptune has been moving secretly from one
friend's house to another. He
also recently learned that his name is on a list of Lavalas
Party officials whom the thugs are targeting for murder.
As you know, many of the thugs who were involved in the
mayhem and criminal activities that led to the departure of
President Aristide, including Guy Philippe, Louis-Jodel
Chamblain and Jean-Pierre Baptiste, have a long history of
killing Lavalas Party supporters.
There is substantial evidence to indicate that the lives
of Lavalas Party officials are in danger if they do not receive
immediate protection by U.S. and multinational forces.
We implore you to act immediately to do whatever is
required to protect Prime Minister Neptune and other Lavalas
Party officials whose lives are being threatened and provide
them with safe passage out of Haiti if they choose to leave.
Sincerely,
Maxine Waters
Jan Schakowsky
John Conyers
Donald Payne
Diane E. Watson
Barbara Lee
Donna M.
Christensen
Corrine Brown
Ed Towns
Raul Grijalva
Major Owens
Charles Rangel
Sheila Jackson-Lee
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters is
Co-Chair of the House Democratic Steering Committee, a member of
the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Committee on
Financial Services. Following the 2000 U.S. presidential
election fiasco, Congresswoman Waters was named Chair of the
Democratic Caucus Special Committee on Electoral Reform.
Prior to being elected to the United States
Congress in 1990, Congresswoman Waters served in the California
State Assembly for 14 years, where she rose to the powerful post
of Democratic Caucus Chair. She has been a key leader in the
presidential races of Edward Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, and Bill
Clinton. She was a leader in the anti-apartheid movement in
the United States, was a key figure in Congressional efforts to
restore democracy to Haiti in 1994, and continues to be a
no-holds barred voice for justice and democracy at home and
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The Impact of the
Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
Reviewed by Mimi Sheller
David P. Geggus is a
professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a
former Guggenheim and National Humanities Center fellow. He has
published extensively on the history of slavery and the Caribbean, with
a particular focus on the Haitian Revolution. He is the author of
Slavery, War and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue,
1793–1798 and an editor of
A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean.
Geggus lives in Gainesville.
Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804
A Brief History with Documents
By Laurent Dubois and
John D. Garrigus
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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