Everyone Except Haitians
In the wake of certain events occurring across the region, thousands of West Indians emigrated or sought refugees status to the United States by the 1970’s. Still, it would be the newly arrived Haitians and Haitian refugees that faced the most prejudice. And even though one rap group would emerge in the 1990s to address this anti-immigrant and anti-black discrimination, anti-Haitian rhetoric in the U.S. has never really gone away.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer
Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System by Carl Lindskoog
Pride Against Prejudice: Haitians in the United States by Alex Stepick and Nancy Foner
The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Duke University
Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration by David M. Reimers
ACADEMIC PAPERS
Breaking the Silence: The Fugees and "The Score" by George Lipsitz
Cuban/Haitians Entrant Program by Denise Blackburn
Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Haitian Refugees by Gilburt Loescher and John Scanlan
Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire by Jeffrey S. Kahn
United States Immigration Policy: The 1965 Act and its Consequences by Timothy J. Hatton
Refugees, Racism, and Reparations: A Critique of the United States' Haitian Immigration Policy by Malissia Lennox
The ‘Visible Scapegoats’ of U.S. Imperialism: HIV Positive Haitian Refugees and Carceral Quarantine at Guantanamo Bay by A. Naomi Paik
ARTICLES
Boston Review: Guantánamo’s Other History
NACLA: Haiti - The AIDS Stigma
Pitchfork: Fugees - The Score Album Review
Vox: Trump’s Guantánamo Plan is an Old Idea — With an Ugly History
DOCUMENTARY
Papa Doc: Haiti's President for LifE
PODCAST
Real Dictators: The Voodoo Tyrant Real Dictators
Behind The Bastards: Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti
Lest We Forget: The Slaughter of Haiti’s Pigs