Contextual Resources: Haiti
Nonfiction for Adults
- Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance by Beverly Bell
- Haiti: the Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois
Read about Professor Dubois and watch him discuss his work. - Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism by Michael Largey
- Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and the Diaspora by Elizabeth McAlister
Watch McAlister discuss Haitian and rara music and the complex relatinship with aid and international perceptions.
Fiction for Adults
- All Soul’s Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
Watch Bell discuss his approach to writing - The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danicat
- Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry by Paul Laraque, Jack Hirschman, and Boadiba
- Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chavet
For Young Readers
- Eight days: A story of Haiti by Edwidge Danicat
- Children of Yayoute: Folk Tales of Haiti by Turenne Des Pres
- Sélavi: A story of hope by Youme Landowne
- Tap-Tap by Karen Lynn Williams
- The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales by Diane Wolkstein
Haitian Music, Dance, Visual Art
- A Haitian professor's whirlwind tour of his country's relationship with music
- Popular Haitian music: a short article and playlist about Haiti’s diverse and vibrant pop music.
- A two-part roundtable about Haitian music, including authors, musicians, and scholars, hosted by New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones: Part I and Part II.
- The intersection of music and politics; Haiti's current president (as well as past candidates) have been pop musicians. Read about it here and also here.
- Eurpean and U.S. influences on Haitian music
- Influence of Haitian culture on contemporary dance: Katherine Dunham, who at one point made her home in Haiti.
- Interviews of Haitian painters, discussing their work and the joy they find in their art.
- The Art of Resiliance: How Haiti's artists have coped with and reacted to life after the earthquake.
- A profile of Frankétienne and a trailer for an upcoming documentary film on the writer - painter - philosopher.
Images and Daily Life
- Images from Haiti, chronicling everyday life
- The tap-tap busses: a colorful look at Haiti's art on wheels
- A Taste of Haiti a cookbook by Mirta Yurnet-Thomas
- Photo essay two years after the 2010 earthquake
- Black in Latin America: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the history of Hispaniola, and discusses Haiti’s complex and riveting past
- Haitian-American author Edwige Danicat talks about women’s lives and her memories of Haiti, where she grew up.
- Hip-hop icon Wyclef Jean talks about growing up in Haiti.
- The role of vodou in everyday life and in supporting Haiti's recovery from the earthquake, from an elder practioner's perspective. BBC video on the role of the botanica shops.

