Monthly Archives: July 2020
1938
CLR James the year The Black Jacobins was first published.
FA20 Readings Final
415
Ali, Tariq. The Book of Saladin. New York: Verso, 1999. Print.
ISBN 9781781680032
Hoban, Russell. Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. Print.
ISBN 9780253212344
James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2d Ed., Rev. ed. New York: Vintage, 1963. Print.
ISBN 9780679724674
303
Hoban, Russell. Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. Print.
ISBN 9780253212344
James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2d Ed., Rev. ed. New York: Vintage, 1963. Print.
ISBN 9780679724674
Maalouf, Amin and Rothschild, Jon. The Crusades through Arab Eyes. New York: Schocken, 1985. Print.
ISBN 9780805208986
225
Chesnutt, Charles and Sundquist, Eric J. The Marrow of Tradition. New York: Penguin, 1993. Print.
ISBN 9780140186864
Hammett, Dashiell. Red Harvest. New York: Vintage, 1992. Print.
ISBN 9780679722618
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed: A Novel. New York: Perennial Classics, 2003. Print.
ISBN 9780061054884
Razing Cain
This level of dramatic irony would be too heavy-handed in a play.
HR-ification
The HR-ification of BLM entails saying the right things while giving very little concrete, material support to the people who need it. Imagine if the focus was less on “Hire more Black admin” and more on “Abolish tuition. In fact pay students to attend school.” How many Black lives would be transformed by this kind of program?
FA20: Haitian Revolution
WORKING
Haitian Revolution
Historiography
CLR James, The Black Jacobins
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World
Gerald Horne, Confronting Blak Jacobins
Film
Gillo Pontecorvo, Burn!
Lydia Bailey (1947?)
Edward Halperin, White Zombie
doc. Egalitè for All
doc. Aristide and the Endless Revolution
Visual Arts
Kimathi Donkor, Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804
Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture
Black Dawn (film)
Drama
Aime Cesaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe
Orson Welles, Voodoo Macbeth
Eugene O’Neill, Emperor Jones
CLR James, Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Play in Three Acts
Novel
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
Madison Smart Bell, All Soul’s Rising (Haitian Trilogy)
Leonora Sansay, Secret History, or The Horrors of Santo Domingo
Nalo Hopkins, Midnight Robber
Arna Bontemps, Black Thunder
Syl Cheney-Coker, Sacred River: A Novel
Politics/Theory/Anthropology
Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood
Alfred Métraux, Voodoo in Haiti
John Saxon (1935-2020)
John Saxon (born Carmine Orrico) just died. He was seemingly ubiquitous on television during the 70s and 80s, in addition to acting in hundreds of films. His first breakthrough role was in The Unguarded Moment.
Lemon Incest
Lemon zest (un zeste) puns to Lemon Incest (incestè), the name of this three-legged dog of a song by Serge Gainsbourg featuring his daughter Charlotte.
Deception
In this noir melodrama a brilliant cellist (Paul Henried) scarred by the war, arrives in New York and reunites with his former flame, an aspiring pianist played by Bette Davis, who betrays him with a narcissistic composer then sacrifices everything.
Enho Victorious
Aoyama is almost 100 kilos heavier than his opponent, Enho