Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
Bertin M. Louis, Jr. (Ber-tin Em Lou-ee, Junior) PhD is Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies (AAAS) and Director of Graduate Studies (Anthropology) at the University of Kentucky
From the United States to the Dominican Republic to The Bahamas, the violence, collective scapegoating, and mass deportation of Haitians lays bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Anti-Haitianism not only denies the humanity of Haitians, but originates in tandem with the West’s fears of independent Black states, which was realized first in the Western Hemisphere after the Haitian revolution.
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