Spring 2006

Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 12, Number 1

Contents

New Diasporic Narratives

Breaking the Silence: The Fugees and The Score
—George Lipsitz

Papa, Patriarchy, and Power: Snapshots of a Good Haitian Girl, Feminism, & Dyasporic Dreams
—Gina Athena Ulysse

Haiti Abroad

"Sueño de Haiti": Danced Identity in Eastern Cuba
—Grete Viddal

A Tale of Three Graces Lòtbò Dlo
—Roger E. Savain

Early Saint Domingan Migration to America and the Attraction of Philadelphia
—Garvey F. Lundy

Public Life / Religious Ways

The Gede in New Orleans: Vodou Ritual in Big Chief Allison Tootie Montana’s Jazz Funeral
—Richard Brent Turner

Le Vodou Haïtien est-il un Humanisme?
—Claudine Michel

Review Essay

Opportunities Lost: Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti, by Michael Deibert; Paradise Lost: Haiti’s Tumultuous Journey from Pearl of the Caribbean to Third World Hotspot, by Philippe Girard; Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy, by Ralph Pezzullo
—Gerald Horne

Reviews

F. Abiola and Simon Gikandi, eds., The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, Volumes 1 & 2 (Roberto Strongman)
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World (Terry Rey)
David Lambert, White Creole Culture, Politics, and Identity during the Age of Abolition (Brenda Gayle Plummer)
Lucía Suárez, The Tears of Hispaniola (Roberto Strongman)
Tatiana K. Wah, Haiti’s Development Through Expatriate Reconnection: Conditions and Challenges (François Pierre-Louis)

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Editorial Board

Editor
Claudine Michel
University of California, Santa Barbara

Associate Editors
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

LeGrace Benson
Arts of Haiti Research Project, Ithaca, New York

Book Review Editor
Flore Zéphir
University of Missouri-Columbia

Managing Editor
Chryss Yost
University of California, Santa Barbara

Editorial Board
Erika Bourguignon
Ohio State University

Karen McCarthy Brown
Drew University

Myriam Chancy
Louisiana State University

Carrol Coates
Binghamton University, SUNY

Georges Corvington
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Edwidge Danticat
Miami, Florida

Michel DeGraff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alex Dupuy
Wesleyan University

Robert Fatton, Jr.
University of Virginia

Leon-François Hoffmann
Princeton University

Laënnec Hurbon
Centre de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

Michel Laguerre
University of California, Berkeley

Yanick Lahens
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Christopher McAuley University of California, Santa Barbara

Marie José N’Zengou-Tayo
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Brenda Gayle Plummer University of Wisconsin

Paulette Poujol-Oriol
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Michel-Rolph Trouillot University of Chicago

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