Resources: Haiti’s History

Ayiti

• Bellegarde-Smith, P. Haiti: the breached citadel (Revised and updated Ed). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2004. Page 14.
• Corbett, B. Pre-Columbian Hispaniola: Arawak/Taino Native Americans. 1999.

Columbus arrives

• Corbett, B. Pre-Columbian Hispaniola: Arawak/Taino Native Americans. 1999.

“I could conquer the whole of them…”

• Bellegarde-Smith, P. Haiti: the breached citadel (Revised and updated Ed). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2004. Page 47.
• Columbus, Christopher. The Log of Christopher Columbus (translated by Robert H. Fuson). Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing. 1991.

Extinction

• Corbett, B. Pre-Columbian Hispaniola: Arawak/Taino Native Americans. 1999.

Slavery

• Farmer, Paul. The Uses of Haiti (3rd Edition). Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press. 2006. Page 54.

“The Pearl of the Caribbean”

• Farmer, Paul. The Uses of Haiti (3rd Edition). Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press. 2006. Page 56.

128 degrees

• James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. 1963. Pages 38-9.

Revolution

• “Decree of the National Convention of 4 February 1794, Abolishing Slavery in all the Colonies” Chnm.gmu.edu.
• James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. 1963.

Dreaming of a nation

• ”The 1805 Constitution of Haiti” (New York Evening Post, July 15, 1805). Webster.edu.

A threat to the system

• Bellegarde-Smith, P. Haiti: the breached citadel (Revised and updated Ed). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2004.
• Farmer, Paul. The Uses of Haiti (3rd Edition). Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press. 2006.

The debt of independence

• Damu, J. “Haiti Makes Its Case For Reparations: The Meter Is Running At $34 Per Second”. Mahagony Revue. 10 February 2004.

Crippling loans

• Farmer, Paul. The Uses of Haiti (3rd Edition). Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press. 2006.

American occupation

• Bellegarde-Smith, P. Haiti: the breached citadel (Revised and updated Ed). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2004.
• Roc, N. “Haiti-environment: from ‘pearl of the Antilles’ to desolation”. 2008.

International aid

• Bellegarde-Smith, P. Haiti: the breached citadel (Revised and updated Ed). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2004.
• “Haiti” Web.worldbank.org. 4 August 2010.
• Hallward, Peter. Damming the flood : Haiti, Aristide, and the politics of containment. London: Verso. 2007. Page 7.
• International Monetary Fund. Haiti: Selected Issues. Washington, DC: IMF Publication Services. 2001.

Dictatorship

• Bellegarde-Smith, P. Haiti: the breached citadel (Revised and updated Ed). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2004.
• Schuller, Mark. “Break The Chains Of Haiti’s Debt” . 20 May 2006.

The brain drain

• The World Bank. International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain. Report No. 33988. Washington, DC: World Bank and Palgrave MacMillan. 2006.

Baby Doc

• Bellegarde-Smith, P. Haiti: the breached citadel (Revised and updated Ed). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2004.
• Dupuy, Alex. “Globalization, World Bank and the Haitian Economy”. Contemporary Caribbean Culture and Societies in A Global Context. Ed. Knight, Franklin and Teresita Martinez-Vergne. Kingston: UWI Press. 2005. Pages 43-70.
• Schuller, Mark. “Break The Chains Of Haiti’s Debt” . 20 May 2006.

The boat people

• Newland, Kathleen. “Impact of U.S. Refugee Policies on U.S. Foreign Policy: A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog?” Carnegieendowment.org. 1995.

The creole pig

• Gaertner, Phillip. “Whether Pigs Have Wings: African Swine Fever Eradication and Pig Repopulation in Haiti” Stretch, Fall 1990, Webster.edu. 1990.

The deluge

• Fatton, Robert Jr. Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2002.

Safe for business

• Dupuy, Alex. “Globalization, World Bank and the Haitian Economy”. Contemporary Caribbean Culture and Societies in A Global Context. Ed. Knight, Franklin and Teresita Martinez-Vergne. Kingston: UWI Press. 2005. Pages 43-70.

Democracy arrives

• Dupuy, Alex. “Globalization, World Bank and the Haitian Economy”. Contemporary Caribbean Culture and Societies in A Global Context. Ed. Knight, Franklin and Teresita Martinez-Vergne. Kingston: UWI Press. 2005. Pages 43-70.

The coup

• “Bill Clinton admits his Neoliberal Free Trade policies are wrong: ‘It was a mistake’” Swopblogger.org. 22 March
• Fatton, Robert Jr. Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2002.

American rice

• Georges, J. “Trade and the Dissappearance of Haitian Rice” American.edu. 2004.
• International Monetary Fund. Haiti: Selected Issues. Washington, DC: IMF Publication Services. 2001.
• Katz, Jonathan M. “With Cheap Food Imports, Haiti Can’t Feed Itself”  HuffingtonPost.  20 January 2010.
• Prou, M. Interviewed May 26th 2010 at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference.

Aristide returns

• Fatton, Robert Jr. Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2002.
• Dupuy, Alex. “Globalization, World Bank and the Haitian Economy”. Contemporary Caribbean Culture and Societies in A Global Context. Ed. Knight, Franklin and Teresita Martinez-Vergne. Kingston: UWI Press. 2005. Pages 43-70.
• Damu, J. “Haiti Makes Its Case For Reparations: The Meter Is Running At $34 Per Second”. Mahagony Revue. 10 February 2004.

200 years of freedom

• Dupuy, Alex. “Globalization, World Bank and the Haitian Economy”. Contemporary Caribbean Culture and Societies in A Global Context. Ed. Knight, Franklin and Teresita Martinez-Vergne. Kingston: UWI Press. 2005. Pages 43-70.
• Hallward, Peter. Damming the flood : Haiti, Aristide, and the politics of containment. London: Verso. 2007. Page 7.

MINUSTAH arrives

• Hallward, Peter. Damming the flood : Haiti, Aristide, and the politics of containment. London: Verso. 2007. Page 7.

Creating vulnerability

• Roc, N. “Haiti-environment: from ‘pearl of the Antilles’ to desolation”. 2008.
• “Haiti Remittances Key to Earthquake Recovery” Web.worldbank.org. 17 May 2010.
• www.thenation.com/article/haitis-unnatural-disaster