books haitian
i really need this. How to shut up loud mouths?
in my school i’m known for having dreadlocks so people call me t-pain. lil john. lil wayne. and nearly everyone calls me to pain. UI have a way of going back and getting the person. i freak them out by staring them down and making them seem as if i were crazy. Some have called me haitian. but i don’t mind that. i just want a sleep to shut them up. i can’t find one in my books.
it’s almost impossible to avoid
i have dreadlocks and people say the same thing
i just ignore it
The Book: “Haitians & Dominicans – What’s the Beef?”
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Rough Guide to the Music of Haiti $10.05 You couldn’t wish for a better musical guide to strife-torn tropical places than Andy Kershaw, and his new compilation The Rough Guide to the Music of Haiti hits the bull’s-eye. Indeed, one of the nicest tracks comes not from some other album, but from the recording Kershaw made with his BBC producer Roger Short–a sweetly down-home number recorded at the house of pintsized twoubadou singer T… |
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Revolution $8.98 This “racine” or Haitian roots band’s fourth LP “Revolution,” kicks off with “Sevelen/Sukiyaki (No More Excuses for the War)”–a searing and wildly imaginative reconception of the classic Japanese ditty–and runs on high octane through all 13 tracks. Recorded in Fugee Wyclef Jean’s New Jersey studio and mixed in Brooklyn, it is Boukman’s finest yet: equal parts temple devotion, dance floor fr… |
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Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou $11.40 When someone is struck with a truly great notion, like this record’s concept, you feel grateful, and at the same time you wonder why no one thought of it before. This disc is clearly made from a near-sacred mission to redeem Haiti and its vodou culture. During slavery days, Jacob Boukman, who was shipped from Jamaica to Haiti, created vodou out of the elements common to the slaves’ various tribal … |
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Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah’s Book Club) $6.71 Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: “I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to.” The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat’s novel, “Breath, Eyes, Memor… |
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Krik? Krak! $7.94 When Haitians tell a story, they say “Krik?” and the eager listeners answer “Krak!” In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a peopl… |
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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution $16.77 The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794…. |
