Word: haitianization
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...very early in the 19th century through the civil rights movement, it was strikingly cosmopolitan. Black leaders took a deep interest in oppressed peoples throughout the world. The Pan-African movement and early black nationalism were part of emerging notions of black solidarity. Blacks took deep pride in the Haitian revolution, and black American missionaries played an important role in the Christianization of Jamaican and other West Indian blacks. Black Americans were also open to the inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson's mother, Bahamian. One of the first mass movements of African...
...that demands conformity—and she’ll be damned if she’s going to let skin color get in the way of that.Now my father, he can be black if he wants to. Born to a culture that rejects blackness as code word for Haitian (Dominicans, they say, speak Spanish and are civilized), he’s now well adjusted. His experiences alongside his brethren in heavily-Hispanic South Florida, and outside that bubble, have led him to accept this truism: color matters. And my mother accepts that. She acknowledges that...
...American citizen? I'm a U.S. resident. I have a Haitian passport. Wyclef Jean could never be Wyclef Jean without America. Once somebody goes to America, there's no such thing as coming back to Haiti, you know...
...Suite Hotel, but was unable to find a second job after being fired by Harvard. Despite a growing number of unpaid bills that escalated throughout the summer, Paul “was just praying that they would give him the job back,” he said, speaking in Haitian Creole. His son, Steven, translated. A week before fainting in William James Hall, Paul fainted in his Dorchester home. He then informed his boss of the incident, and upon his boss’s suggestion, went to a doctor prior to fainting again, Paul said. —Staff writer...
...support of Saintely Paul, a Harvard janitor who was fired in June after his supervisor found him unconscious at work. Paul claims he had previously told his supervisor about his fainting spells, for which he was seeking medical attention. Paul addressed the council, recounting his story in his native Haitian Creole through an interpreter. “My supervisor came in and took a picture of me while I was unconscious,” he said. “The next day when I came in, my boss told me I had no job. I was fired...