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Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. ButReclaiming Haiti''s Futurestells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called 'jenerasyon 86,' were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship (1957–1986). They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the 'jenn doktè,' returned after the 2010 earthquake to partake in national reconstruction through public higher education reform. An ethnography of the future, the book explores how these returned scholars resisted coloniality''s fractures and displacements by working toward and creating inhabitability or future-oriented places

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    A Paperback by Darlene Elizabeth Dubuisson


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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 12/13/2024
      ISBN13: 9781978837393, 978-1978837393
      ISBN10: 1978837399
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      History of the Americas

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. ButReclaiming Haiti''s Futurestells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called 'jenerasyon 86,' were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship (1957–1986). They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the 'jenn doktè,' returned after the 2010 earthquake to partake in national reconstruction through public higher education reform. An ethnography of the future, the book explores how these returned scholars resisted coloniality''s fractures and displacements by working toward and creating inhabitability or future-oriented places

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