Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... elite would not need to air - ship their uniforms , suits , and dresses to Miami for this service . Both black and white visitors found permutations of racism for which they were unprepared . I went sailing with the beautiful daugh- ter ...
... elite would not need to air - ship their uniforms , suits , and dresses to Miami for this service . Both black and white visitors found permutations of racism for which they were unprepared . I went sailing with the beautiful daugh- ter ...
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... elite black families , pridefully guarding its blackness instead of marrying its sons to white or mulatto women . His intellectual goal was to convince a Frenchified elite that their African , peasant , and slave roots mattered , that ...
... elite black families , pridefully guarding its blackness instead of marrying its sons to white or mulatto women . His intellectual goal was to convince a Frenchified elite that their African , peasant , and slave roots mattered , that ...
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... elite , the conventional puppet - masters , the Army . They feared the popular black leader , Daniel Fignolé , a mathematics teacher and fiery orator with a following in the city slums and among the unions . When I met Mr. Fignolé , he ...
... elite , the conventional puppet - masters , the Army . They feared the popular black leader , Daniel Fignolé , a mathematics teacher and fiery orator with a following in the city slums and among the unions . When I met Mr. Fignolé , he ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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