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Center for Black Studies
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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

Fall 2002
Volume 8 Number 2

Special Issue on Politics and Grassroots Organizing

Contents
Elections and Democratic Stuctures

Sara
Johnson-La O
The Integration of Hispaniola: A Reappraisal of Haitian-Dominican Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Robert Maguire

Haiti's Political Gridlock

Colonial Politics

Jean-François Brière L'Abbé Grégoire et la Révolution Haïtienne

David Geggus

The Exile of the 1791 Slave Leaders: Spain's Resettlement of its Black Auxiliary Troops

Contemporary Politics

Philippe R. Girard Operation Restore Democracy?

Henry F. (Chip) Carey

US Policy in Haiti: The Failure to Help Despite the Rhetoric to Please

Transnational & Grassroots Organizing

Götz-Dietrich Opitz Transnational Organizing and the Haitian Crisis, 1991-1994

François Pierre-Louis

Can Hometown Associations Foster Democratic Change in Haiti?
Stuart M. Leiderman A New Haiti: A Proposal for a Model Community in Haiti

Research Notes

LeGrace Benson Qismat of the Names of Allah in Haitian Vodou

Elizabeth Chin

Mammy Dearest: A Home Decorating Catalog Reminds Us that Prejudice takes Many Shapes
René Piquion Réflexion: Vaudou et Socièté en Haïti

Reviews

Robert Fatton, Jr., Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (Gerald Horne)

Charles Arthur, Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (LeGrace Benson)

Vodou: Spirits of Haitian Art (Museum exhibit/Robert Brictson) (Ysamur M. Flores-Peña)

Jacques Stephen Alexis, General Sun, My Brother (translated by Carrol F. Coates) (Marc Prou)

To order this issue, download the PDF order form here and mail with your check for $15 to:

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