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Killing the Elites: Haiti, 1964

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Sp37aGrqv7uFHSVwBTdAr?si=GvnZNkouQQuaTUvCfZiC_Q 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...
Illustrated blog post banner for the book *Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution*. The top half depicts Haitian revolutionaries in battle, with a central figure raising a sword amid smoke and flames. The lower half features the book title in bold yellow text on a burnt-orange background.

Awakening the Ashes(Part 3/3): An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution....

Welcome back to another captivating episode of the Nèg Mawon Podcast. In this episode, your host Patrick Jean-Baptiste continues his Scholar Legacy Series with...
Illustrated blog post banner for the book *Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution*. The top half depicts Haitian revolutionaries in battle, with a central figure raising a sword amid smoke and flames. The lower half features the book title in bold yellow text on a burnt-orange background.

Awakening the Ashes (Part 2/3): An Intellectual History of the Haitian...

What didn't we discuss in this wide-ranging part 2/3 discussion with Dr. Marlene Daut on the intellectual history of the Haitain revolution? Well, she took...
Illustrated blog post banner for the book *Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution*. The top half depicts Haitian revolutionaries in battle, with a central figure raising a sword amid smoke and flames. The lower half features the book title in bold yellow text on a burnt-orange background.

Awakening the Ashes (Part 1/3). Conversations with Dr. Marlene Daut

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Uhxtc92c9XYc3xJejzKkL?si=LKdonJBDTeuL5sHoqF-ZJg 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...
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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...
Black and white photograph of a large, diverse group of people gathered in front of a decorated home, standing on a porch with two large columns. The group includes men, women, and children of various ages, dressed in a mix of formal and casual attire. Some individuals are embracing or holding hands, while others stand side by side, smiling at the camera. A young child in the front playfully makes binocular shapes with their hands. The background features a festive entrance with wreaths on the doors, suggesting a holiday or celebratory gathering. The atmosphere conveys warmth, connection, and togetherness.

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...