Spring 2016 - Haiti - Reading Culture - Libraries at Houston Community College

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The World Factbook. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2015.

Quick Facts

Haiti

Sources: BBC; CIA World Factbook

Full name: Republic of Haiti
Date of independence: January 1, 1804
Population (2015): 10.1 million
Location: Caribbean; between the Caribbean and North Atlantic
Environment: Largely mountainous, series of valleys interspersed between three main ranges
Capital: Port-au-Prince
Area: 10,714 sq miles (27,750 sq km)
Elevation: 0 m- 2,680 m
Major languages: Haitian Creole, French
Major religions: Catholicism, Protestantism, Vodou
Major ethnic groups: Black (95%), mixed and white (5%)
Life expectancy: 62.07 years (men), 64.95 years (women)
Median age (2015 est.): total: 22.5 years; 22.3 years (men), 22.7 years (women)
Literacy*: 60.7%
Urban population (2015): 58.6%
Monetary unit: Gourde (HTG)
Main exports: Apparel, manufactures, oils, cocoa, mangoes, coffee
GNI per capita**: US $1,730
Internet Domain: .ht
International dialing code: + 509

* Percentage age 15 and over who can read and write
** World Bank, 2014

For more information:

CIA World Factbook
One World Nations Online
BBC.com

Congratulations Scholarship Winners!

Congratulations to the Reading Culture Scholarship recipients for Spring 2016

$1,000 recipient is Sumayyah Khan

$500 recipient is Rabab Mohamed

$500 recipient is Son Nguyen

Stay tuned for more information about the 2016/2017 Reading Culture events!

Previous Events- Spring 2016

Feb. 10th - 12:30 pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge. Carnival History and Tradition (sponsored by Student Life and Pandora’s Box.)

Feb. 11th - 12:30 pm Spring Branch Eagle Room. Introduction to Haiti by Geography Professor Bryant Evans. English Professor Marilyn Douglas Jones introduces the Spring 2016 book, Brother, I’m Dying.

Feb. 12th - 10:30 am Alief Hayes Room B139 Introduction to book by Prof. DouglasJones. HCC Sociology Prof. Rolande Dathis, PhD., an international lawyer from Haiti with experience in immigration and human rights speaks.

Feb. 17th - 12:30 pm Spring Branch Eagle Room. The Reel screens "Cimarron Spirit" with Rubén Durán.

February 29 - Haitian-themed Carnival 10:30 am- 1 pm Northline Campus. Hosted by SGA

Tuesday, March 1st - 12:30 pm Alief Hayes Auditorium. Pandora's box screens "Cimarron Spirit" with Rubén Durán.

Wednesday, March 2nd - 12:30 pm Katy Cyber Lounge. Pandora's box screens "Cimarron Spirit" with Rubén Durán.

Thursday, March 3rd - 12:30 pm Spring Branch Eagle Room. Scholar lecture by Dr. Hosam Abou-Ela.

April 7th - 12:30 pm Spring Branch Eagle Room. History of Haiti. Lecture by Valerie Mawiyah Michaud.

March 1^st- 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge. “Cimarron Spirit” screening.

March 2^nd- 12:30pm Alief Hayes Auditorium. “Cimarron Spirit” screening.

March 3^rd 12:30pm Spring Branch Eagle Room. Lecture, Dr. Hosam Abou-Ela

April 7^th – 12:30pm Spring Branch Eagle Room. History Lecture, Valerie Mawiyah Michaud

April 11¹¹ Essays due

April 29^th Presentation day

Brother, I'm Dying -- Spring 2016

Videos

Author Edwidge Danticat gives a TED Talk in October 2004.

Resources for Brother, I'm Dying

"One to One: Edwidge Danticat." CUNY-TV. YouTube. YouTube, 2 Jun. 2011. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.

Biographical information on the author (on campus direct access, off campus use your library barcode as your password)

1. Literature Resource Center, HCC Library

Literary Criticism from HCC Library Resources (on campus direct access, off campus use your library barcode as your password)

1. Literature Resource Center List

2. Literary Reference Center

The Public Archive
This clearinghouse of Haiti-related history offers several links to find out more about Uncle Joseph's friend Daniel Fignolé, who was President of Haiti for 19 days.
NPR: Madeline at 75
A short article about the enduring popularity of young Edwidge's beloved book Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans.
Madeline
The official website for the Madeline books.

Books in our libraries

Haiti after the Earthquake by Paul Farmer
Call Number: RA 645.7 .H2 F37 2001
ISBN: 9781586489731
Publication Date: 2011-07-12
On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured. In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible suffering--and resilience--that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the social issues that made Haiti so vulnerable to the earthquake--the very issues that make it an "unnatural disaster." Complementing his account are stories from other doctors, volunteers, and earthquake survivors. Haiti After the Earthquake will both inform and inspire readers to stand with the Haitian people against the profound economic and social injustices that formed the fault line for this disaster.
The Uses of Haiti by Paul Farmer; Noam Chomsky (Introduction by); Jonathan Kozol (Foreword by)
Call Number: F 1928.2 F37 2006
ISBN: 156751345x
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters--uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in its bitter fate.--Noam Chomsky, from the introduction In this third edition of the classic The Uses of Haiti, Paul Farmer looks at what has happened to the health of the poor in Haiti since the coup. Winner of a McArthur Genius Award, Paul Farmer is a physician and anthropologist who has worked for 25 years in Haiti, where he serves as medical director of a hospital serving the rural poor. He is the subject of the Tracy Kidder biography, Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston; Ishmael Reed (Foreword by)
Call Number: BL2490 .H88 1990
ISBN: 0060916494
Publication Date: 1938, 1990
As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural interest.

Haiti

The Caribbean

Life and Culture

Frontiers: Haiti and The Dominican Republic (Alexander Street Video) A video (produced a year before the events in Brother, I'm Dying) about the relationship between Haiti and The Dominican Republic. (On campus direct access, off campus use library barcode on back of HCC ID)

Sacred Choreographies of Cuba and Haiti (Alexander Street Video). Professor Yvonne Daniel and students at Smith College go over foot patterns and dance sequences in Cuban and Haitian dance. (On campus direct access, off campus use library barcode on back of HCC ID)

Journal Articles

Pulitano, Elvira. "An Immigrant Artist At Work: A Conversation With Edwidge Danticat." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism 15.3 (2011): 39-61. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Feb. 2016. (On campus direct access, off campus use library barcode on back of HCC ID)

Reading Culture: Spring 2016 - Haiti