Kate Ramsey, author of The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti, reviews the collection Haiti and the Americas in the spring 2015 issue of Journal of Haitian Studies.
Ramsey writes: “The transnational turn in Haitian studies and the hemispheric turn in American studies come together in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection, which situates Haiti as a ‘crossroads’ of the Americas…Haiti and the Americas spotlights the multiple ways that scholars are working at the intersection of transnational Haitian and hemispheric American studies, as well as the rich insights that become possible at these geographic, temporal, and disciplinary crossroads. I came away from the collection with a more faceted understanding of these histories and texts, with new questions, and with the hope and expectation that Haiti and the Americas will generate many sequels.”
More reviews of Haiti and the Americas can be found here.