Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Keywords: haiti, uses
Number of Pages: 475
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1567513441
ISBN-13: 9781567513448
The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters—uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in its bitter fate.—Noam Chomsky, from the introduction In this third edition of the classic The Uses of Haiti, Paul Farmer looks at what has happened to the health of the poor in Haiti since the coup. Winner of a McArthur Genius Award, Paul Farmer is a physician and anthropologist who has worked for 25 years in Haiti, where he serves as medic
Author: Alfred Metraux
Publisher: Pantheo
Keywords: haiti, voodoo
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1989-04-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0805208941
ISBN-13: 9780805208948
A master work of observation and description about the lives and rituals of the Haitian mambos and adepts, and of the history and origins of their religion.
Author: NACLA
Publisher: South End Press
Keywords: crossroads, dangerous, haiti
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0896085058
ISBN-13: 9780896085053
Author: Michael Barrick
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: haiti, days, seven
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2007-01-17
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 160034982X
ISBN-13: 9781600349829
Author: Terry F. Bu
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: failed, aid, foreign, balance, haiti
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0815713916
ISBN-13: 9780815713913
Even after years of receiving considerable foreign aid, Haiti remains an impoverished, tremendously fragile state. Over a span of ten years, the United States spent over $4 billion in aid to Haiti, yet the average Haitian still has to survive on one dollar a day. Why has assistance been so ineffectual, and what can we learn from Haiti s plight about foreign aid in general? Haiti in the Balance tackles those questions by analyzing nearly twenty years of Haitian history, politics, and foreign relations. Terry Buss and his colleagues at the National Academy on Public Administration found a genera
Author: Kerry A. Graves
Publisher: Social Studies Collections
Keywords: cultures, countries, haiti
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-01
List price: $23.93
ISBN-10: 0736810781
ISBN-13: 9780736810784
An introduction to the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of Haiti.
Author: Joan Dayan
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: gods, history, haiti
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1998-03-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520213688
ISBN-13: 9780520213685
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island’s history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan’s ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today.In examining the complex social fabric of French Sain
