GBST191:
Haiti: Past, Present and
Future
(draft v.9/29/14)
4 units, letter grade,
Lecture Tuesday 2-3:30
Discussion Thursday 2:00-3:00
Location: 2240 Watkins Hall
Instructors:
Chris
Chase-Dunn (Sociology)
and Juliann
Allison (Political Science)
TA:
Jamaul Weaver <jamaul.weaver@email.ucr.edu>
This course focusses on Haitian history, ecology, earthquakes, political economy and public health issues in world historical perspective. Invited experts and community activists tell about their studies and projects in Haiti and we examine Haitian political, economic, and natural and health history. Some of the students in the course are activists in the University of California Haiti Initiative. We also examine leadership skills needed in addressing poverty in the Global South.
The
course grade will be determined by: Class attendance (10 per cent),
Participation in discussions (20 per cent), Midterm exam (in-class short-answer
essay) (30%) [November 11], Research paper or
development project proposal (40%) [December
9].
The course website is on Ilearn under “Seminar in Global Studies”
Required readings: Jeremy D. Popkin 2012 A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. Articles with an asterisk (*) below are also required reading.
Lectures: Tuesday 2:10-3:30PM
Discussion Section:
Thursday 2:10PM – 3:00PM
Thursday Oct 2: no
class
Tuesday Oct 7: Overview
of the course
Oct 14: Paul Ryer, (Anthropology UCR) "The Present in the Past: Caribbean Revolutions from Haiti to Cuba"
*Read Michel-Rolph Troillot, An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a non-event” Under Course Materials on Ilearn
Oct 21: Christopher Chase-Dunn (Sociology UCR) “Haiti
and world politics”
* Jeremy D. Popkin 2012 A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. (whole book)
Suggested readings: Sidney W. Mintz, “Introduction to
the 2nd Edition” of Albert Metraux, Voodoo in Haiti
Sydney W. Mintz. Haiti” Chapter 10 of Caribbean Transformations.
Oct 28: David Oglesby (Earth Sciences UCR)
“Earthquakes in the Caribbean Region”
Nov 4 Midterm study questions handed out in class
Hand in topic of research paper or development proposal topic
including a short bibliography
Robin Derby
(History, UCLA) “Demons and Trauma in Haiti’s Past and Present”
Prof. Derby’s project: http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/helping-haitians-learn-from-national-228697.aspx
Nov 11 Midterm in class
Nov 18: Amy Wilentz, (Literary Journalism Program,
English, UC-Irvine) "The Role of the
Outsider in Haiti"
http://amywilentz.com/does-history-matter-in-haiti/
Nov 25: Dr. Ami Ben-Artzi (Santa Monica Medical
Center UCLA) “Medical Issues”
*Read “Building
a more resilient Haitian state”
Dec 2: Dave Pettersen and Kevin Bither, (Haiti Endowment Fund) “Project
Report from a non-profit NGO in the city of Hinche,
Haiti”
Dec 9: John Namjun
Kim, (Comparative Literature, UCR) "Hegel, Haiti and Faust's
Modernity"
Research
Paper or development project proposal is Due in Class
Free open access course on Haitian creyol:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-dilenschneider/notre-dame-offers-free-on_b_470716.html
http://ocw.nd.edu/romance-languages-and-literatures/creole-language-and-culture
Bibliography:
Charles
Arthur and Michael Dash (eds.) Liberte: A Haiti
Anthology, Princeton, NJ: Marcus
Weiner, 1999
Paul Brodwin, Medicine and Morality on Haiti. The Contest for Healing Power. New York: Cambridge, 1996.
Karen
McCarthy Brown. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn.
Berkeley: University of California Press,
1991.
Susan
Buck-Morse 2009 Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania
Press.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1344332?uid=3739560&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103260687421
Matthew J. Clavin, Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution (Philadelphia: Univ. of Penna. Press, 2009).
Watson Denis “Origenes y manifestaciones de la francofilia haitiana
: nacionalismo y politica exterior en Haiti
(1880-1915)” Secuencia 67 enero-abril
2007.
____________"Review
of the Equality of Human Races", Caribbean Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1,
pp. 325-334
Jared Diamond: Collapse - How Societies choose to fall or succeed. Chapter 11. Viking Press, New York, 2005Chris Dixon, African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000).
Paul Farmer, The Uses of Haiti. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press. 1994
Zora Neale
Hurston 2009 [1938] Tell My Horse: Voodoo
and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. New York: Harper
Tracy Kidder,
Mountains Beyond Mountains New York : Random House 2004
Haiti. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Albert
Metraux 1972 Voodoo in Haiti. New York: Schocken Books
Sydney Mintz 1972 Introduction in Albert Metraux,
Voodoo in Haiti. New York:Schocken
Books
Sydney Mintz 1974 Caribbean Transformations. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
___________
(ed.) The Idea of Haiti. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2013
Karen Richman, Migration and Vodou. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2005.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Haiti, State Against Nation New
York: Monthly Review Press 1990