Dr. Greg Beckett
Dr. Greg Beckett Show Notes In this episode, we discuss a wide range of subjects: we do a deep dive into the ‘burning questions” that occupied Michel-Rolph Trouillot the anthropologist/historian….
Nèg Mawon Recommended Book List
Nèg Mawon Podcast Recommended Book List In prepping for the guest scholars/authors who come on the Nèg Mawon Podcast, these are the books I had to read. The list is by…
Dr. Rebecca Dirksen
Dr. Rebecca Dirksen Episode Description I love foundational work like this! A richly ethnographic and compelling read. The book is: After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy. Dr. Dirksen’s book…
Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf Episode Description With a focus on the Caribbean, this book highlights how identification practices as promulgated by the World Bank, United Nations (UN) and the…
Dr. Nathan Dize
Episode Description This episode focuses on the translation of a post-earthquake novel, The Immortals. The Immortals is set in an infamous neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Grand-Rue, where many women, young…
Danielle Legros Georges
Danielle Legros Georges Episode Description Danielle Legros Georges’ “The Dear Remote Nearness of You” speaks poetry’s origin in new and startling ways. This is the precise intelligence that knows it…
Dr. Ronald A Johnson
Dr. Ronald A Johnson Episode Description Diplomacy in Black and White is the first book on the John Adams & Toussaint Louverture alliance. Listen to my discussion with Historian and…
Dr. Cécile Accilien
Dr. Cécile Accilien
Dr. Crystal Eddins
Dr. Crystal Eddins Episode Description The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in…
Dr. Marlene Daut
Dr. Marlene Daut Episode Notes This is one of my all-time favorite episodes. Even my 15-year-old, who has absolutely no interest (yet) in Haitian history, told me she enjoyed hearing…