From the banal to the sublime to the fatal, Haiti has long been regarded as an oddity in the Caribbean. Branded the ''nightmare republic'' since its independence in 1804, in popular imagination Haiti remains conceptually incarcerated as “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere,” and the epicenter of “voodoo.” Students read texts (from the written to the sonic and visual) across disciplines to discern the myths and realities in our understanding and representation of the first Black Republic. Course considers how ideas of Blackness shape identity formation, lived experiences, and cultural production through in-depth examination of key concepts: colonialism, empire, geopolitics, race, class, and aesthetics.
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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