The Limits of Crisis Journalism and the Need for History
The Devil Lives in Haiti salutes the bravery of reporter Romeo Langlois and the Haitian police officers featured in this report. The Haitian state of this year is skeletal in
How does a kingdom that once boomed with agricultural output sink into a nation renown for its famine? How does a revolution sparked by the injury of racial inequality give birth to a nation consecrated to racial revenge? And why do historians, for whom such reversals should command their full investigative labors, instead train a laser focus on the diplomatic injuries of the post-colonial nation? These are the faults of Haitian historiography that Bennett Blunt seeks to repair in a provocative new volume on the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
The Devil Lives in Haiti salutes the bravery of reporter Romeo Langlois and the Haitian police officers featured in this report. The Haitian state of this year is skeletal in