“Haiti’s Revolutionary Calendar”īy Erin Zavitz, University of Montana Western What follows is a segment of the H-Haiti Blog’s inaugural post. The Institute’s goal is to become a leading international research institute, capable of supporting scholars and reaching out to the community in order to shape “policies that affect the lives of Haitian-Americans and Haiti.”
Brooklyn is home to the largest concentration of people of Haitian descent in New York State. May also witnessed the creation of the Haitian Studies Institute (HSI) at Brooklyn College. Reviews and other resources are coming soon too. There is already a lengthy list of podcasts and other recordings related to Haitian studies on the site for visitors to explore. H-Haiti was created to promote a community of scholars, artists, activists dedicated to constructive conversationĪ one stop shop for your Haitian historical, literary, and cultural needs, H-Haiti fosters conversations on their discussion board as well as in their new H-Haiti Blog. They want to explore the ways in which Haitians “made the modern world-system.” As such, H-Haiti is a valuable addition to H-Net world, which includes other sites of interest like H-French Colonial and H-Caribbean. The advisory board along with the editors, Marlene Daut and Julia Gaffield, breathed life into this site, creating a digital space for “scholars, artists, and activists to explore and discuss Haitian history, art, politics, and culture through a lens beyond that of fear, repression, failure, and dependency.” The goal of H-Haiti to script “new narratives of Haiti” is admirable and needed. It is with great interest then to note that H-Haiti launched this past month. James’s Black Jacobins broke site records. Our site’s fascination and experience with the Haitian Revolution should be seen as a litmus for much wider interest in Haiti. Most recently, Christopher Taylor’s assessment of C.L.R. Erin Zavitz explored the memory of Haiti’s “founding fathers” in the recent Presidential elections. Marlene Daut wrote a stirring post on the “genocidal” musings that coincided with abolition. Rob Taber discussed marriage and the legal origins of the Haitian Revolution. Erica Johnson covered Catholic priests and their role in slave insurrections. Consistently, the most viewed posts on our site are those that deal with the colony (St.
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