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A tiny ethnography of the earthquake

14 February 2010

I want you to know that, before the earthquake, things in Haiti were normal. Outside Haiti, people only hear the worst — tales that are cherry-picked, tales that are exaggerated, tales that are lies. I want you to understand that there was poverty and oppression and injustice in Port-au-Prince, but there was also banality.
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Follow-up to African Reading Challenge

26 July 2008

The fate of migrants is the same – Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, does it matter?
Laila Lalami linked to this photo-essay taken in Italy of North African migrants.
The similarities between the essay and what we see here with Haitian migrants are striking.
I’ve been carrying around Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits for days now, trying to make time [...]

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Can You See Us? (Video)

4 May 2008

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Can You See Us?

3 May 2008

Thanks to Erica James at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, I was led to seek out this series on the statelessness of children of Haitian parentage growing up in The Bahamas.  You’ll find it on YouTube.  I don’t know who made the movies, but every Bahamian should watch them — especially those Bahamians [...]

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