Fault Lines : : Views across Haiti's Divide /

Fault Lines : : Views across Haiti's Divide / / Beverly Bell.

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Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing more than a quarter-million people and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Bell, Beverly,
MitwirkendeR:
Danticat, Edwidge,
TeilnehmendeR:
Danticat, Edwidge.
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Thirty-Five Seconds
  • 1. We Don't Have Enough Water to Make Tears: Surviving the Earthquake, or Not
  • 2. What We Have, We Share: Solidarity Undergirds Rescue and Relief
  • 3. Pearl of the Antilles: The Political Economy of Peril
  • 4. Maroon Man: Social Movements throughout History
  • 5. We Will Carry You On: The Women's Movement
  • 6. You Can't Eat Okra with One Finger: Community-Run Humanitarian Aid
  • 7. Fragile as a Crystal (Tales from Three Months Out)
  • 8. Children of the Land: Small Farmers and Agriculture
  • 9. Grains and Guns: Foreign Aid and Reconstruction
  • 10. The Ones Who Must Decide: Social Movements in the Reconstruction
  • 11. Our Bodies Are Shaking Now: Violence against Girls and Women
  • 12. The Creole Connection: People-to-People Aid and Solidarity across Borders
  • 13. We've Lost the Battle, but We Haven't Lost the War (Tales from Six Months Out)
  • 14. Social Fault Lines: Class and Catastrophe
  • 15. Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice: The Politics of Food Aid and Trade
  • 16. Home: From Tent Camp to Community
  • 17. For Want of Twenty Cents: Children's Rights and Protection
  • 18. The Super Bowl of Disasters: Profiting from Crisis
  • 19. The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic (Tales from Nine Months Out)
  • 20. Beyond Medical Care: The Health of the Nation
  • 21. Hold Strong: The Pros and Pitfalls of Resilience
  • 22. Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There: The Offshore Assembly Industry
  • 23. The Central Pillar: Peasant Women
  • 24. Elections (In the Time of Cholera)
  • 25. We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting (Tales from Twelve Months Out)
  • Epilogue: Bringing It Back Home
  • Notes
  • Index

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