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Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent cri
Democratic Insecurities
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Pages: 384
Authors: Erica Caple James
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-14 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnogra
Taking Haiti
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Pages: 435
Authors: Mary A. Renda
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-07-21 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti tha
Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti
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Authors: Mark Schuller
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The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, sparking an international aid response—with pledges and donations of $16 bi
Walking on Fire
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Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing