Comments on: Unbroken Agony http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html black looks Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:50:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Sabbah's Blog http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63807 Sabbah's Blog Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:56:50 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63807 <strong>An Unbroken Agony...</strong> I have been invited to Haiti by “Haiti Solidarity” so am off there shortly. I will be staying and meeting with women activists from the Lavalas movement. I have a pretty good knowledge of Haitian history and contemporary politics but there is al... An Unbroken Agony…

I have been invited to Haiti by “Haiti Solidarity” so am off there shortly. I will be staying and meeting with women activists from the Lavalas movement. I have a pretty good knowledge of Haitian history and contemporary politics but there is al…

]]> By: Women of Color Blog » Links, links and more links. http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63753 Women of Color Blog » Links, links and more links. Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:59:19 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63753 [...] Black Looks reviews that book An Unbroken Agony, which centers the coup of Haitian president Aristid... (and on a side note, Sokari read the book because she’ll be going to Haiti soon!!!) [...] […] Black Looks reviews that book An Unbroken Agony, which centers the coup of Haitian president Aristid… (and on a side note, Sokari read the book because she’ll be going to Haiti soon!!!) […]

]]> By: brownfemipower http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63739 brownfemipower Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:27:15 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63739 thanks so much for the run down on the book, sokari--have a safe trip, and keep us updated!!!! thanks so much for the run down on the book, sokari–have a safe trip, and keep us updated!!!!

]]> By: kameelah http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63737 kameelah Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:14:11 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/unbroken_agony.html#comment-63737 I am consistently amazed by the work you do! My first introduction to Haiti was back in 2003/4 when I took a class on Slavery in the New World and we did a section on Haiti. I was amazed by the story of independence (because that is where we stopped of course), but kept reading to find that independence like in many African and African diasporic communities is often a prematurely celebratory term. America's history of colonialism and intervention up until TODAY is disturbing. What is most disturbing is how little attention Haiti gets in the media, but I feel like even in the blogsphere. Hopefully, your meeting with Lavalas will revive some of our spirits. The book that gave me a lot of help in contextualizing was Paul Farmer's "The Uses of Haiti" but I want to check up on the CLR James book as well. I guess one of the things that consistently captures me is the way Haiti was not recognized by France, the US an a number of other Western nations for a long time and the way many feared that the Haiti would influence further attempts to establish Black republics an generally revolt against slavery. After the "bias" of the book..eish, that just assumes that there is some measure of objectivity. But, really I think hagiography is common if sometimes inescapable in colonized and neocolonized nations where any critique may open up an access point to bring down what many people see as an urgent and necessary movement. You see it in South Africa, you see it throughout Latin America with the election of Chavez and Morales. I am consistently amazed by the work you do! My first introduction to Haiti was back in 2003/4 when I took a class on Slavery in the New World and we did a section on Haiti. I was amazed by the story of independence (because that is where we stopped of course), but kept reading to find that independence like in many African and African diasporic communities is often a prematurely celebratory term. America’s history of colonialism and intervention up until TODAY is disturbing. What is most disturbing is how little attention Haiti gets in the media, but I feel like even in the blogsphere. Hopefully, your meeting with Lavalas will revive some of our spirits.

The book that gave me a lot of help in contextualizing was Paul Farmer’s “The Uses of Haiti” but I want to check up on the CLR James book as well.

I guess one of the things that consistently captures me is the way Haiti was not recognized by France, the US an a number of other Western nations for a long time and the way many feared that the Haiti would influence further attempts to establish Black republics an generally revolt against slavery.

After the “bias” of the book..eish, that just assumes that there is some measure of objectivity. But, really I think hagiography is common if sometimes inescapable in colonized and neocolonized nations where any critique may open up an access point to bring down what many people see as an urgent and necessary movement. You see it in South Africa, you see it throughout Latin America with the election of Chavez and Morales.

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