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...These workers and their families live a life permanently “in transit,” which is the phrasing loophole that allows the Dominican Republic to deny the basic rights of citizenship not just to Haitian immigrants, but even to their children born on Dominican soil. Although the Dominican constitution theoretically guarantees citizenship to “all persons born in the territory” of the country, an exception exists for those persons deemed to be “in transit...
...Enter President Fernandez, and his government’s systematic abuse of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians, who are not only allowed to remain in dire poverty within the miserable bateyes, but who are in fact actively rounded up and deported at the drop of a hat, their visas and work permits disregarded or even destroyed. “Snatched off the street, dragged from their homes, or picked up from their workplaces, ‘Haitian-looking’ people are rarely given a fair opportunity to challenge their expulsion during these wholesale sweeps,” noted the Human...
...colonialism. It's hardly unusual that Chavez would want to promote such an anti-imperialist story - nor is it surprising that the man who will make the film is African-American Hollywood star and civil rights activist Danny Glover, a close friend of Chavez and of former left-wing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (who was overthrown and forced into exile in South Africa three years...
...remembering things.” “It’s a way of keeping some beauty in my life,” he said. Viddal’s $1,000 second prize-winning collection, “The Devotional Arts of Haitian Vodou,” found its roots in an African dance class Viddal took in college. She became fascinated with the origins and the context of various Haitian dance moves, an interest that took her to Haiti four times to study the interconnectivity of the religion, performance, music, and dance of Haitian Vodou...
...Claudine Gay, nothing is just black or white.Her office is colored in shades of pink and yellow, and a small Haitian painting peeks out from the bookshelf. This is where the newcomer to Harvard scrutinizes America in Technicolor.Though the government professor only arrived in September and has yet to teach her first course, Gay is already shattering the way scholars look at race and politics in the U.S. “She’s just made us rethink some important idea we’ve thought all along,” says Jayne Professor of Government and Professor...