The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development

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Index abolitionist ideology, U.S. fear of, 52–53 abstraction, politics of, 21 accountability paradigm, NGO programs undermined by, 196–98 Acker, Kathy, 70 Act of Bogota, 157n.7 AD2000 and Beyond Movement, 228 Adventist missions in Haiti, 114–15, 219–20 affliction, lwa and cult of, 121–23 Africa, Haitian professionals in, 139–41 African Americans, images of Haiti among, xiii, xxiii–xxiv. See also United States African-descended peoples: diaspora in U.S. of, xxiii-xxiv; evangelical demonization of religions of, 224– 33; Haitian nationalism and link to, xii, 70, 208, 212–18; Haitian religious practices linked to, 118–20, 205–7; international discourse concerning, xv; United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti and, 57–63; Vodou and influence of, 222. See also slavery Agamben, Giorgio, 69, 71–76, 190 agency, individual religious agency and conversion, 115–18 Agonies of the Intellectual (Stoekl), 87–88 Ahmad, Attiya, 239n.29 Alexis, Jacques Stephen, 152, 204–5, 223 Alexis, Yveline, xxvi, 51–65 Alliance for Progress: establishment of, 142; Haiti and politics of, 135– 56; hidden agenda of, 151–53; nationalisme à la carte of Duvalier regime and, 147–51; project criteria for, 137–38; Wise Men committee for, 137, 140–41, 149–51 alterity, Haiti as embodiment of, xviii–xix, xxvi Amanpour, Christiane, 98, 104 American Baptists, 219–20 American studies, Haiti and, xxv Amilcar, Faustin, 122–23 Anderson, Benedict, 211 animism, Christian evangelical view of, 224–25 anti-Semitism, Haitian Vodou linked to, 207 Ardouin, Beaubrun, 33–37 Arendt, Hannah, 85n.17 Argentinian evangelicalism, 205, 227 Aristide, Jean-Bertrand: cholera outbreaks and, 104; election of, 273 274 Index xxii; elimination of Haitian army by, 12; land tenure abuses and, 175, 218; nongovernmental organizations and, 195; presidency and exile of, 57–63, 77–78; return to power of, 196, 216; U.S. and, xxx, 25n.9; Vodou incorporated by, 215–18, 231–33 Arthus, Wien Weibert, xxviii, 135–56 Asbury Theological Seminary, 222 Assembly of God churches, 123 assistance à personne en danger, 151 Australia, earthquakes in, xviii authoritarianism, Haitian political institutions and, 35–37 Avril, Prosper, 77 bad conversion phenomenon, 123–27 Baptist Theological Seminary (Haiti), 220 barbarism: Haitian slave revolt depicted as, 52–53; stereotyping of Haitian culture and, 30–33 bare life (nuda vita): Agamben’s fantasies of, 71–76; etymological roots of, 84n.12; Haitian IDP camps and, 190; photographic images of Haiti as, 69–83 Baron Samedi, 215 Barrett, Harold, 105 Barthélémy, Gérard, 10, 24n.4 Batista, Fulgencio, 153 Batraville, Benoit, 62–63 Baum, Howell, 169 Bay of Pigs invasion, 152 Beauvoir, Vilfort, 139 Beauvoir-Dominique, Rachel, 234, 239n.27, 239n.29 Beck, Ulrich, 29 Beckett, Greg, xiv, xxvi, 27–44, 52 Bellerive, Jean-Max, 135, 155 Berle, Adolph Augustus Jr., 142, 145 Berlinski, Mischa, xiv bidonvilles, 175, 183–84 Bizonton Affair, 31–32 Black Haiti (Niles), 70 Black Jacobins (James), 21–24 black self-determination, slave revolt and revolution linked to, 53, 70, 118–20, 145, 204–18 blood imagery, in Bois Caïman story, 213–18 blood pact theology. See Satanic pact story blueprint imagery, new Haiti discourse and, xxi, xxix–xxx Bois Caïman story: bicentennial commemoration of, 215–18; captivity narratives and, 234–37; early published accounts of, 209–10, 212–13; evangelical narratives of, 204–9, 211–12, 223–33; narrative politics of, 212–18, 239n.27 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 13–14, 17 Bonjour Blanc (Thomson), 78, 86n.21 Bosch, Juan, 145 Bosnal, Stephen, 32 Bossale slaves, 17 Boston Review, xx Bottfeld, Philippe, 139 Boyer, Jean-Pierre, xxi, 15–16, 91 brain drain of Haitians, 139–41, 153–54 Brazil: Alliance for Progress failures in, 136; historical paradigms concerning, xix Brewer, Vernon, 220 Brodwin, Paul, 41 Brown, Karen, 121 Buck-Morss, Susan, 19–21 Index 275 Bufford, Rodger, 225 “building back better” paradigm: camp cities and failure of, 183–84; cholera outbreak and, 181; post-earthquake reconstruction planning and, 168–70 Bureau D’Ethnologie, 114, 215 Burke, Edmund, 18 cacos (guerrilla fighters), xxvii, 55–63 cadastre system, post-earthquake recovery and lack of, 173–78 Cadre de Coopération Intémaire, 196 Calhoun, Craig, 39–40 camp cities: cholera outbreak and depopulation of, 190–91; forced evictions and creation of, 173, 175– 76; physical conditions in, 184–90; post-earthquake statistics on, 167, 176, 181–82; research methodology about, 183–84; semi-permanence of, 182–83; water facilities in, 187–88 Camp Organization and Camp Management Cluster, 173...