Looking Like People; Feeling Like People: The Black Body, Dress and Aesthetic Therapy in the Caribbean.

Looking Like People; Feeling Like People: The Black Body, Dress and Aesthetic Therapy in the Caribbean.

In the Caribbean, the practice of getting dressed matters because it is a practice of attending to the body. Under a colonial regime, black bodies were ill-treated and selves were negated. Clothing played an instrumental role in the abuse of bodies and the stripping of a sense of well-being.

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Counternarratives of the Diaspora: Haitian Musical Performance in World Beat Markets

Counternarratives of the Diaspora: Haitian Musical Performance in World Beat Markets

This study will investigate the performance motivations of three Haitian musicians based in South Florida who use their artistic platforms to offer a version of their country omitted from dominant media projections of the country. This study focuses on narrative as a device that allows these musicians to offer counter stories against dominantly negative media projections that have real effects on Haitians.

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Success Story: Haitian Artisans and Merchants Improve Earnings from Tourism

Success Story: Haitian Artisans and Merchants Improve Earnings from Tourism

More than 700,000 visitors a year come to Labadee, Haiti’s largest tourist destination. Passengers from Royal Caribbean cruise ships have enjoyed the beautiful north coast site with its bay, beaches, and amenities since 1985 when it was developed for the company’s use under a lease agreement with the Haitian government.

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The Lakou System: A Cultural, Ecological Analysis of Mothering in Rural Haiti

The Lakou System: A Cultural, Ecological Analysis of Mothering in Rural Haiti

“Fam se poto mitan” (women are the center post) is a well-known Haitian proverb that highlights the central role women play not only in Haitian commerce, but also within Haitian families. In Haiti, 70% of rural households are headed by women, despite a history of embedded male dominance.

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The Haiti Handicrafts Value Chain sustainable strategies for development.

The Haiti Handicrafts Value Chain sustainable strategies for development.

A Market-Driven, Value-Chain Approach to Economic Development & Poverty Reduction based on: USAID Global Market Assessment for Handicrafts; USAID Haitian Handicraft Value Chain Analysis ; Haitian handicraft development projects; First-hand market experience.

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Haitian Handicraft Value Chain Analysis

Haitian Handicraft Value Chain Analysis

Haiti is known throughout the Caribbean, Americas and Europe for the quality and creativity of its handicrafts, especially metalwork. The capacity of the handicrafts industry to turn that advantage into a larger and growing market share is constrained by a number of factors.

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Caribbean Prehistoric Domestic Architecture: A Study of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Acculturation

Caribbean Prehistoric Domestic Architecture: A Study of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Acculturation

The study of settlement geography, demography and social behavior in the prehistoric Carib and Taíno societies of the Caribbean has recently become a prominent domain of interest to archaeologists working in these islands. Archaeological floor plans for prehistoric houses within the islands of St. Eustatius, Barbados, St. Thomas, Cuba and Puerto Rico demonstrate the cultural continuity of house shape, settlement organization and social organization from the early Saladoid to the contact period

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