Edited by Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea Stieber, and translated by Nadève Ménard, Louis-Joseph Janvier’s Haiti for the Haitians was published by Liverpool University Press on October 1, 2023. It is the first major English translation of Janvier, one of the foremost Haitian intellectuals and diplomats of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It…
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The Haitians: A Decolonial History, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2020. Organized by Brandon R. Byrd, Chelsea Stieber, and Shelby Sinclair, the book club begins in August. The club will feature four virtual, monthly meetings, free and open to the public. During these meetings, participants will focus the discussion on one of the following themes: translation; slavery and freedom; sovereignty and the state; and colonialism and decoloniality. Invited scholars will lead each discussion and lend their expertise to our collective attempt to re-think these themes, Haiti, and the world through
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The Haitians and our discussion, the co-conveners of the book club have created a
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ANDEMICS CAN have unexpected side-effects. One of them, according to a report last year by the New York Federal Reserve, may be a surge in support for extremist ideas. It observed how cities in Germany that suffered the most deaths from influenza by 1920 then voted in unusually large numbers for extreme-right parties, such as the Nazis, by the early 1930s. In the past year, too, according to studies in Britain and America, there has been a spurt in online searches for extremist content. Anger over lockdowns or loss of trust in government could be driving new interest.
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