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Useful and Interesting Books on Haiti
Bell, Beverly and Edwidge Danticat. Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance. Cornell University Press, 2001.
Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick. Haiti: The Breached Citadel. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
Cobb, Charles E. “Haiti Against All Odds.” National Geographic Vol. 172, No. 5 (1987): 645-670.
Desmangles, Leslie G. The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Dupuy, Alex. Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution. Westview Press, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Farmer, Paul. The Uses of Haiti. Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.
Farmer, Paul. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Fass, Simon M. Political Economy in Haiti: The Drama of Survival. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1988.
Heinl, Michael, Nancy Gordon Heinl, and Robert Debs Heinl. Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995. Lonhan: University Press of America, 1996.
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. NY: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc, 1963.
McCarthy-Brown, Karen. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Paris, Barry. Song of Haiti. NY: PublicAffairs, A member of the Perseus Book Group, 2000.
Patterson, Carolyn Bennett. “Haiti: Beyond Mountains, More Mountains.” National Geographic Vol. 149, No. 1 (1976): 70-96.
Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Haiti and the Great Powers: 1902-1915. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Racine, Maria M.B. Like the Dew that Water the Grass: Words from Haitian Women. Washington, DC: EPICA, 1999.
Ridgeway, James (ed.). The Haiti Files: Decoding the Haiti Crisis. Washington, DC: Essential Books, 1994.
Shacochis, Bob. The Immaculate Invasion. New York: Viking Penguin Press, 1999.
Stotzky, Irwin P. Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Thomson, Ian. Bonjour Blanc: A Journey through Haiti. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Haiti – State Against Nation: Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1990.
Wilentz, Amy. The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier. Simon & Schuster, Inc: A Touchstone Book, 1989.
Useful Guides for Learning Creole
Haitian-Creole [Abridged]. Pimsleur. September, 1997. Audio Cassette. ISBN: 0671579290
Ovide, Stephanie. Creole-English/English-Creole (Caribbean): Hippocrene Concise Dictionary. Hippocrene Books, 1996. ISBN: 0781804558
Turnball, Wally R. Creole Made Easy. Baptist Haiti Mission, 2000. ISBN: 0967993717
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