Patrick Jean-Baptiste
Timeline of Haitian History
“Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and...
Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti & Jamaica After Emancipation
Ep. #84 - Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti & Jamaica After Emancipation
Summary
A great conversation with historian Matthew Smith, who discusses the connected histories of Haiti and...
Killing the Elites: Haiti, 1964
Summary
Like my guest today, I’ve never found it particularly useful to cast François Duvalier as some frothing, otherworldly monster. That story is too easy....
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
Key Research Terms —Baron de Vastey —Noel Colombel —Haiti’s Isolation —Regeneration —Haiti’s Kingdom vs. Haiti the Republic —Edouard Glissant’s Theory of Opacity —The Unmediated...
Awakening the Ashes
Episode Outline
Intro- ToC - Her Most Haitian Book - On the Title - Restorative Justice for Haiti - Our Ancestors had the Receipts! -...
Food, Ego, and Failure: The Harsh Truth About Haitian Restaurants in...
The Minimum Viable Plate: How Vanity Kills Haitian Restaurants Before They Even Open
There is a kind of romance to the idea of owning a...
Shibboleths and Passports: The Marks of Empire
My wife is in transit, crossing borders, navigating spaces that recognize her, and spaces that do not. She sends me a text from the...
Throw the Rock, Hide the Hand: Trump’s Great Deception
I do not know Donald Trump. But I know the city that made him, the tabloids that birthed him, the bodega endcaps where his...
Friendship in the Age of Self-Improvement
I have learned to pay attention.
I have learned that friendship—the kind that lasts, the kind that stretches over decades, the kind that takes root...
Selling Liberation: When Toussaint Louverture Became a Beer Pitchman
There is something uncanny about this image—Toussaint Louverture, stripped of the very thing that made him. He’s there, immortalized in a 1940s beer ad...
