Haiti:Past, Present and Future

Discussion and Research Session.
http://www.uchaiti.org/
This course focusses on Haitian history, ecology, earthquakes, political economy and public health issues in world historical perspective. Invited experts and community activists tell about their studies and projects in Haiti and we examine Haitian political, economic, and natural and health history. The course grade will be determined by: lecture attendance (10 points), discussion attendance (10 points) Participation in discussions (10 points), Midterm exam (in-class short-answer essay) (30 points) , Presentation in section of research paper or development project topic (10 points) The topic statement for your Research Paper or a Development Project Proposal (see below) and the finished product (30 points)
The course website is on Ilearn ; Required readings:
Laurent Dubois (2004) Avengers of the New World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Alejo Carpentier 2006 The Kingdom of This World. translated by Palo Medina
New York: Farrer, Straus and Giroux
These books are on reserve and are available in the Campus Store.
Articles with an asterisk (*) below are required reading.
Tuesday January 8: Overview of the course
January 15: Christopher Chase-Dunn (Sociology UCR) “The Haitian revolution and world politics”
*Laurent Dubois (2004) Avengers of the New World. (whole book)
Gerald Horne2015Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican
Republic: Monthly Review Press
Sydney W. Mintz. Haiti” Chapter 10 of Caribbean Transformations.

Makandal as a mosquito
January 22: Dr. Amy Ben-Artzi (Santa Monica Medical Center UCLA) “The Haitian Health System: lessons from the earthquake relief effort of 2010”
*“Building a more resilient Haitian state”
January 29:
Dave Pettersen and Kevin Bither, (Haiti Endowment Fund) “Project Report from a non-profit NGO in the city of Hinche, Haiti”
February 5:
Hand in topic of research paper or development proposal topic including a short bibliography
Amalia Cabezas “Human trafficking in Haiti”
Heather T. Smith, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Impact of the OAS and the UN on Human Trafficking in Hati,” in Allison Brisk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, From Human Trafficking to Human Rights, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, pp. 137-154. In course materials on Ilearn
February 12: Robin Derby (History, UCLA) “Demons and Trauma in Haiti’s Past and Present” Prof. Derby’s project:http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/helping-haitians-learn-from-national-228697.aspx
See also You Tube, The Dominican Southwest Part 1, 7.26-1053. and Haiti Rumors Woman Transforming into Snake.
February 19 Midterm study questions handed out in class
Marta Hernández Salván, Hispanic Studies, UCR “The Haitian revolutionary aftermath”
*Alejo Carpentier 2006 The Kingdom of This World. translated by Palo Medina
New York: Farrer, Straus and Giroux (whole book)
Aimee Cesaire, (1963) The Tragedy of King Christophe
February 26: Midterm in class
March 5 :Roby Douilly (Earth Sciences UCR) “Earthquakes in the Caribbean Region”
March 12: Research Paper or development project proposal is Due in Class
Marilyn Grell-Brisk “African Religions in Haiti and the Diaspora”
*Jeremy D. Popkin 2012 A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. Chapter 2. (on Ilearn under Course Materials)
Albert Metraux, Voodoo in Haiti“Introduction to the 2nd Edition”
No final examination.
Term Paper or Development Project requirement for Haiti course
The term paper requirement can be satisfied by either a research paper on some aspect of Haitian history, politics or development problems or a proposal for a development project to help Haitians overcome their current difficulties.
The paper requirement is 35% of your grade. It can be satisfied in two ways:
Option A is to write a research paper on one of the suggested topics below, or on a topic that you devise.
Option B is to write a proposal for a development project to help Haitians overcome some of their current problems.
Both the research paper and the development project should be individual projects. We are not doing group projects this time. Both the research papers and the development proposals should be no longer than 10 pages of text (double-spaced). Bibliographies and supporting materials may be included on additional pages. Hard copy of the papers and proposals should be handed
Hand in a sheet that includes a paragraph about your chosen topic for your research paper or development proposal in class onalong with a bibliography of sources with at least three items.
Possible topics for research papers (Option A):
The Haitian Revolution in world historical perspective
Religion in Haiti
Haitian Natural History and its influences on the human population of Haiti
The effects of U.S policies and governmental actions on Haitian institutions
The effects of international aid on Haitian institutions
Public health issues in Haiti
The role of paramilitary groups in Haitian politics
The AIDS epidemic in Haiti
Haitian languages and culture
Violence against women in Haiti
Haitian economic development
Haitian agriculture
Natural resources in Haiti
Haitian immigrants in the United States
Haitian education institutions
Joint Cooperative Projects between the State University of Haiti and the University of California
Another topic of your own choosing: _____________________________
The research paper should include a bibliography of sources of information.
Possible topics for development project proposals (Option B):
Improving health services in Haiti
Improving Haitian agriculture
Improving Haitian education
Economic development initiatives
Enhancing democracy and human rights in Haiti
Enhancing the capability and legitimacy of Haitian governmental institutions
Reducing violence against Haitian women and girls
Provision of improved housing for indigent Haitian people
Another project:__________________
The development project proposal should include a description of the problem that needs to be addressed, a review of earlier efforts, a discussion of the scale and feasibility of the proposed project, a discussion of how needed resources and support might be obtained, and a bibliography of sources of information.
Free open access course on Haitian creyol:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-dilenschneider/notre-dame-offers-free-on_b_470716.html
http://ocw.nd.edu/romance-languages-and-literatures/creole-language-and-culture

Bibliography:
Charles Arthur and Michael Dash (eds.) Liberte: A Haiti Anthology, Princeton, NJ: Marcus Weiner, 1999
Robin Blackburn, “Haiti, Slavery and the Age of the Democratic Revolution”, William and Mary Quarterly, 63/4, (2006)
Paul Brodwin, Medicine and Morality on Haiti. The Contest for Healing Power. New York: Cambridge, 1996.
Karen McCarthy Brown. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1991.
Alejo Carpentier 1957 The Kingdom of This World. New York: Fararar, Straus and Giroux
Aimee Cesaire, (2015) The Tragedy of King Christophe(Northwestern World Classics) translated by Paul Breslin and Rachel Ney
Matthew J. Clavin, Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian
Revolution (Philadelphia: Univ. of Penna. Press, 2009).
Watson Denis “Origenes y manifestaciones de la francofilia haitiana : nacionalismo y politica exterior en
Haiti (1880-1915)” Secuencia 67 enero-abril 2007.
____________”Review of the Equality of Human Races”, Caribbean Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 325-334
___________ “Haiti”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Vol. 3, 1750- to the Present, Edited by Peter N. Stearns, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008.
___________ “Haitian Revolution”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Vol. 3, 1750- to the Present, Edited by Peter N. Stearns, New York, Oxford University Press,2008.
____________ “Haiti”, Encyclopedia of Latin American history and Culture, Edited by Jay Kinsbruner, 2nd Edition, Vol. 3, New York, Scribner’s, pp. 616-632.
Jared Diamond: Collapse – How Societies choose to fall or succeed.Chapter 11.Viking Press, New York, 2005
Chris Dixon, African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 2000).
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge: Belnap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2004.
Laurent Dubois, “An Enslaved Enlightenment: Rethinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic”
Social History 31, no. 1 (February 2006): 1-14
Alex Dupuy 1989 Haiti in the world economy: class, race, and under development since 1700 Boulder, CO:
Westview
__________ 1997 Haiti in the New World Order. Boulder,CO: Westview
Alex Dupuy 2007 The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community and Haiti Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield
Paul Farmer, The Uses of Haiti. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press.1994
Paul Farmer, AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2006
Graham Greene 1967 The Comedians. London: Penguin Books
Gerald Horne, Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican
Republic: Monthly Review Press, 2015
Zora Neale Hurston 2009 [1938] Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. New York: Harper
C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture And The San Domingo Revolution. New York, Vintage
Books [1963]
Sara E. Johnson, The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Jonathan M. Katz 2013 The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains New York : Random House 2004
Stewart King. Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue, Athens, GA. 2001.
J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat. Sleeping Rough in Port au Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in
Haiti. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Peter Linebaugh and Markus Rediker 2000. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden
History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon.
Elizabeth McAlister. Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora, Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002
J.R. McNeill 2010 Mosquito Empires: Ecology and war in the greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Albert Metraux 1972 Voodoo in Haiti. New York: Schocken Books
Sydney Mintz 1972 Introduction in Albert Metraux, Voodoo in Haiti. New York:Schocken Books
Sydney Mintz 1974 Caribbean Transformations. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Millery Polyne, From Douglas to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti and Pan Americanism, 1870-1954.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
___________ (ed.) The Idea of Haiti. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2013
Basil Reid 2009 Myths and Realities of Caribbean History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940. University of
North Carolina Press, 2001.
Karen Richman, Migration and Vodou. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2005.
Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales (eds.) Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake, Sterlling , VA: Kumarian Press 2012
Jeb Sprague 2012 Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti, New York: Monthly Review Press
__________2019 Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
Jennie Smith, When the Hands are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti, Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2001.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Haiti, State Against Nation New York: Monthly Review Press 1990
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season.Simon & Schuster 2010
___________Farewell Fred Voodoo. Simon & Schuster 2013
markus rediker’s Haitian art collection http://www.marcusrediker.com/art/faustin.php