Howard University’s Caribbean studies program hosted the c
onference, “A Global Crossroads? Caribbean studies beyond disciplines” in September 2015.
Raphael Dalleo presented from his research, discussing how U.S.-based writers during the 1920s like Eric Walrond and Claude McKay found themselves translating their Caribbean identities through images of voodoo circulated by the occupation of Haiti.
In February 2015, Kaiama Glover and Maja Horn invited me to visit their class at Barnard College, Translating Hispaniola, and to present my research as part of their speaker series.
I visited their class on the day that they were discussing the U.S. occupation of Haiti. I presented from my current research, focusing especially on C.L.R. James’s play Toussaint Louverture and history The Black Jacobins in relation to the occupation.
More information about the event can be found here.
A published version of this presentation appears in the journal Cultural Critique.
As a faculty fellow for Peace, Justice and Human Rights at Florida Atlantic University, Raphael Dalleo presented on his research placing the rise of modern Caribbean politics and literature from the 1920s and 1930s into the context of the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934.