Books
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson.
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou by Donald Cosentino (LA Fowler Museum of Cultural History University of California)
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. Biography of Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health.
Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma and Intervention in Haiti by Erica James. Raises important questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence and political insecurity.
The Uses of Haiti by Dr. Paul Farmer. A discussion of the myriad forces that have long kept the majority of Haitians poor, sick and silenced.
Pathologies of Power: Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority by Anthony Fenton and Yves Engler
The Immaculate Invasion by Bob Shacochis. Foreign Policy Review - "Captures much of the absurdity and futility of the 1994 American-led invasion of Haiti."
Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti by Stan Goff, 2000 (See also Full Spectrum Disorder: THe Military in the New American Century)
Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization by Jean Bertrand Aristide
Aristide: An Autobiography by Jean-Betrand Aristide, 1993
The Comedians by Graham Greene. Political intrigue in Papa Doc's Haiti. In 1967 became a movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James. A classic. A window into the horrific lives of the slaves and of the man who rose up and led them - a semiliterate slave named Francois-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture.
All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell. Bell brings to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. "Toussaint is one of the great heroes of all time, and Bell makes him both human and epic."
MAINSTREAM BOOK LISTS
Speed Read: The Best Books on Haiti by The Daily Beast
A Hidden Haitian World by Madison Smartt Bell for The New York Review
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson.
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou by Donald Cosentino (LA Fowler Museum of Cultural History University of California)
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. Biography of Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health.
Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma and Intervention in Haiti by Erica James. Raises important questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence and political insecurity.
The Uses of Haiti by Dr. Paul Farmer. A discussion of the myriad forces that have long kept the majority of Haitians poor, sick and silenced.
Pathologies of Power: Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority by Anthony Fenton and Yves Engler
The Immaculate Invasion by Bob Shacochis. Foreign Policy Review - "Captures much of the absurdity and futility of the 1994 American-led invasion of Haiti."
Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti by Stan Goff, 2000 (See also Full Spectrum Disorder: THe Military in the New American Century)
Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization by Jean Bertrand Aristide
Aristide: An Autobiography by Jean-Betrand Aristide, 1993
The Comedians by Graham Greene. Political intrigue in Papa Doc's Haiti. In 1967 became a movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James. A classic. A window into the horrific lives of the slaves and of the man who rose up and led them - a semiliterate slave named Francois-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture.
All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell. Bell brings to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. "Toussaint is one of the great heroes of all time, and Bell makes him both human and epic."
MAINSTREAM BOOK LISTS
Speed Read: The Best Books on Haiti by The Daily Beast
A Hidden Haitian World by Madison Smartt Bell for The New York Review
Music
Rosemond Jolissaint: Ti moun yo Haiti's first Haitian "American Idol." Haitian Creole: Lessons 1 - 5 by Pimsleur (who gave lessons 1-10 away for free to all Haiti aid workers)
Photography
Voices of Haiti by Jeremy Cowart
Haiti: Coping With the Aftermath by Carolyn Cole, Rick Loomis and Brian Vander Brut for Latimes.com
After Quake, Panic and Death in a Haitian Prison by Angel Franco for nytimes, May 22, 2010
Kanaval (picture book) Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti by Leah Gordon
Urban Vodou: Politics and Popular Street Art in Haiti by Pablo Butcher and Carl Hermann Middelanis
Island of Lost Souls by Patrick Farrell for Guardian.co.uk, April 2009 (hurricane photos)
Haiti: Coping With the Aftermath by Carolyn Cole, Rick Loomis and Brian Vander Brut for Latimes.com
After Quake, Panic and Death in a Haitian Prison by Angel Franco for nytimes, May 22, 2010
Kanaval (picture book) Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti by Leah Gordon
Urban Vodou: Politics and Popular Street Art in Haiti by Pablo Butcher and Carl Hermann Middelanis
Island of Lost Souls by Patrick Farrell for Guardian.co.uk, April 2009 (hurricane photos)
