This chapter contextualizes the crisis ensuing from the 2010 earthquake by looking at the rhetoric surrounding U.S. aid and intervention in Haiti. It explores what a Marshall Plan for Haiti would look like and whether or not such a plan would require an ideological shift in the ways in which Haiti’s place in history might be reconceived so that such a plan might actually create results that, to date, have escaped the engagement of the international community.

This chapter seeks to introduce a different kind of pedagogic volume that contextualizes Haiti outside of the stereotypes created by the West and that have beleaguered it for more than a century. The authors thus provide new ways of teaching about Haiti that portrays a more complex portrait of the country that challenges the neocolonial, imperialist, racist and simplistic discourses that are so prevalent in everyday discussions.

This chapter explores the Caribbean ethnography Tell My Horse (1938) by Zora Neale Hurston and how she challenged and shaped the field of anthropology and ethnography in North America. The author states that Hurston being a black woman in the Caribbean diaspora is what led to her semi-disappearance and fall into poverty.

Cette recherche, conduite à Port-au-Prince à la fin de 2010 et au début de 2011, examine la situation des femmes et des filles dans les camps de personnes déplacées à la suite du séisme du 12 janvier 2010. Plus précisément, ce rapport étudie l’accès aux services de santé périnatale pour ces femmes et ces filles, l’effet de l’insécurité alimentaire sur la santé maternelle et reproductive, le développement de la pratique du sexe transactionnel, ainsi que la prévalence et les conséquences des violences fondées sur le genre.

This report details the living conditions for women in various countries across the globe in the 1980s and 1990s. The section on Haiti documents the different types of sexual assaults occurring in Haiti such as cases of politically motivated rape, massacres, forced disappearances, and violent assaults during and after the coup d’état that ousted President Aristides. This chapter uses statistics and national and international data as well as testimonies from victims to illustrate the violence and its propensity.

Le présent rapport analyse l’accès des femmes et des filles aux soins reproductifs et maternels dans l’Haïti de l’après séisme, sur la base de recherches effectuées à Port-au-Prince fin 2010 et début 2011 et d’entretiens réalisés avec 128 femmes et filles vivant dans quinze camps de déplacés dans sept des douze communes affectées par le tremblement de terre.