Reclaiming Haiti's Futures by Darlne Elizabeth Dubuisson - 9781978837393

Rutgers University Press

Reclaiming Haiti's FuturesReturned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination\nAuthor(s): Darlne Elizabeth Dubuisson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978837393, 978-1978837393\nSynopsis\nHaiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. ButReclaiming Haiti's Futurestells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called jenerasyon 86,were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship [tel]. They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the jenn dokt,returned after the 2010 earthquake to partake in national reconstructi.