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Haiti: What Can Be Done?

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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. By DuboisLaurent. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012. Pp. 434. $32.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780805093353.

Haiti after the Earthquake. By FarmerPaul. New York: PublicAffairs, 2011. Pp. xii + 429. $27.99 cloth. ISBN: 9781586489731.

Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond. Edited by HeineJorge and ThompsonAndrew S.Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2011. Pp. xxi + 277. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9789280811971.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Anthony P. Maingot*
Affiliation:
Florida International University
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References

1. Paul Farmer, AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992); Paul Farmer, The Uses of Haiti (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2006).

2. Paul Farmer, “Who Removed Aristide?” London Review of Books, April 15, 2004, http://www.lrb.co.uk/u26/n08/farm01_html.

3. Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 2.

4. Paul Collier, “Haiti: From Natural Catastrophe to Economic Security—A Report for the Secretary-General of the United Nations,” January 2009, n.p.

5. Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004).

6. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938; reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1963); David Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

7. Arthur C. Millspaugh, Haiti under American Control, 1915–1930 (Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1931), 20.

8. Eric Williams, The Negro in the Caribbean (Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1942), 54–55.

9. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Aristide: An Autobiography (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993), 168.

10. US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service, Rice Production and Trade Report (Washington, DC: Global Information Network, 2010).

11. For a more complete account of this ecological crisis, see Anthony P. Maingot, “Emigration Dynamics in the Caribbean: The Cases of Haiti and the Dominican Republic,” in Emigration Dynamics in Developing Countries, ed. Reginald Appleyard (Sydney: Ashgate, 1999), 3: 178–231.

12. Jacques Roumain, Masters of the Dew, trans. Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook (1947; London: Heinemann, 1978), 24–25.

13. James G. Leyburn, The Haitian People (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1941), 270, 321.

14. Mats Lundahl, Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti (London: Croom Helm, 1979).

15. Robert Debs Heinl and Nancy Gordon Heinl, Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People, 1492–1971 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 665.