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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Farmer, Paul, 1959- Uses of Haiti. Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, 2003 (OCoLC)656794556 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Farmer |
| ISBN: | 1567512429 9781567512427 1567512437 9781567512434 |
| OCLC Number: | 51774298 |
| Notes: | "An Institute for Health and Social Justice book"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Description: | 432 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | What's at stake in Haiti -- The uses of Haiti -- The template of a colony -- From Duvalierism to Duvalierism without Duvalier -- The power of the poor in Haiti -- The coup of 1991: the power of the rich in Haiti -- The uses of Haiti (reprise) -- A user's guide to Haiti -- On Guantánamo -- Chouchou Louis and the political economy of brutality -- Acéphie -- New myths for old -- The oppressor as savior -- Diagnosis. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Farmer ; [with a new epilogue by the author ; introduction by Noam Chomsky ; new foreword by Jonathan Kozol]. |
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Abstract:
This book tells the truth about uncomfortable matters, uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from critical scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the U.S. role in its bitter fate.
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Related Subjects:(13)
- Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1986-
- Haiti -- Social conditions -- 1971-
- Poor -- Haiti.
- Haiti -- Relations -- United States.
- United States -- Relations -- Haiti.
- Sociale situatie.
- Sociale ongelijkheid.
- Volksgezondheid.
- Politiek.
- Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
- Außenpolitik
- Haiti
- USA
