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Marlene Daut
FictionsofHaiti
What does it say about France that 2021 is "L'Année Napoléon" (the Year of Napoleon) in commemoration of the bicentennial of his death? Napoléon was a racist, warmongering, genocidal maniac,
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You know, Toussaint Louverture was a man of his time, too, and yet the constitution he signed in 1801 said: "There can be NO SLAVES on this territory; servitude has
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I am curious about something: in the last 4 or 5 months, there have been at least three different BBC radio programs focused on the Haitian Revolution. I have pitched
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Women of the Haitian Revolution. A thread in honor of Haitian Independence: First up, Cécile Fatiman. Along with Boukman Dutty, she helped lead the famous ceremony at Bois Caïman in
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I visited for the first time today UVA's new monument to the enslaved laborers who built the university, which was completed in spring 2020: Etched on these walls are the
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To help understand what happened over at H-France today, we can return to Laurent Berlant's concept of "Diva Citizenship":"Diva Citizenship occurs when a person stages a dramatic coup in a
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