The first volume to treat the teaching of Haitian history and culture across disciplines, this collection gives instructors practical guidance: approaches to course design, theories for a wide range of texts, sample syllabi, and accounts of actual classrooms. Contributors link Haiti to the wider Caribbean throughout.

The editors push against the reflex that ties Haiti to disaster, poverty, and a debased picture of Vodou, and against the neocolonial, imperialist, and racist framings common in literary and historical writing. Teachers working in women's and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture describe how they reshape those older narratives, and they make the case for putting Haiti into American and Latin American studies courses.

Rather than the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti appears here as a country with a many-sided culture and a part to play in the world, raising questions about migration, locality, and globality that bear on isolationist politics and neoliberal practice.