Suggested Readings

If you would like to learn more about Haiti, please take a look at the reading list below. If you read (or have read) anything from the list, leave a comment! If you feel that something has been left out, leave a comment and we will look into it. 

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Articles
"We Are Ugly, but We Are Here," Danticat
"Why Adopting Haitian Children Is a Terrible Idea--For Us and for Them," Chin

"US-Haiti," Chomsky
"Haiti after 5 centuries of genocide, slavery, isolation, colonization and globalization," Egnatz
"If we fail to act," Farmer
"Haitian History" Beckles

"Trials of Haiti," (Kidder)

Books
A People's History of The United States, Zinn
Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewenthal
The Uses of Haiti, Farmer
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder
Trilogy of novels on Haitian history (All Souls Rising, Master of the Crossroads, The Stone that the Builder Refused)
      and Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, Smart Bell
Continental Divide, Banks

Novels by Edwidge Danticat

Unbroken Agony, Randall Robinson

Black Jacobins, CLR James

Unbroken Agony, Randall Robinson