Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807

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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Philippe Zacaïr and Catherine Reinhardt Part 1. Haitian Diasporas 1. Marginality and Subjectivity in the Haitian Diaspora 13 Paul Brodwin 2. The Trial of Ibo Simon: Popular Media and Anti-Haitian Violence in Guadeloupe 42 Philippe Zacaïr 3. “The Mirror That We Don’t Want”: Literary Confrontations between Haitians and Guadeloupeans 58 Odile Ferly 4. Identifications and Kinships among Haitians in French Guiana: Observations on a Diaspora 82 Maud Laëthier 5. Medical Humanitarianism and Health as a Human Right on the Haitian-Dominican Border 103 Pierre Minn 6. Refugee Rights in the Caribbean: A Study of Haitians in Jamaica 121 Sharon E. Clarke Part 2. Testimonies 7. Conversation with Myrtha Désulmé, President of the Haiti-Jamaica Society 145 Philippe Zacaïr 8. Congratulations! You Don’t Look Haitian: How and When Does One Look Haitian? 153 Cécile Accilien 9. Picking and Unpicking Time: Contextualizing Haitian Immigration in French Guiana 171 Marc Lony List of Contributors 199 Index 201 ...