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Center for Black Studies
Updated
Publications

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 Members
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

The Journal of Haitian Studies

Spring 2001
Volume 7, Number 1

Contents
Health and Development

Pierre Minn Water in Their Eyes, Dust on Their Land
Uli Locher Sécurité alimentaire en Haïti

Colonial History

Leara Rhodes Haitian Contributions to American History: A Journalistic Record
Jayne R. Boisvert Colonial Hell and Female Resistance in Saint-Domingue

Literature and Society

Jean-Marie Salien L'histoire et le mythe dans Les Cacos de Jean Métellus
Karen E. Richman and William Leslie Balan-Gaubert A Democracy of Words: Political Performance in Haiti's Tenth Province

Vodou Representations

LeGrace Benson How Hougans Use the Light from Distant Stars
Helen Pyne-Timothy Reading the Signs in Pauline Melville's "Erzulie"

Research Reports

Lois Wilcken and
Garry Augustin
Renesans Dèyè Simityè: Yon Pwojè Edikatif Pòtoprens-Nouyòk

Review Essay

Gage Averill and Gerdès Fleurant, A Day for the Hunder, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti; Dancing Spirits: Rhythms and Rituals of Haitian Vodou, The Rada Rite (Douglas Henry Daniels)

Book Reviews

Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola (Laënnec Hurbon)

Phyllis Galembo, Vodou: Visions and Voices of Haiti (Nancy Mikelsons)

Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Gerald Horne)

Film Reviews

Philip Singer, The Haitians, the Healers, and the Anthropologist—2 Case Studies (film) (Reginald Crosley)

Karen Kramer, Breaking Leaves: Herbal Medicine in Haiti (Patrick Bellegarde-Smith) Vol. 7, No. 1

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Dr. Claudine Michel, Journal of Haitian Studies
Center for Black Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3140