LASA Haiti-DR section 2015
Silvio A Torres-Saillant
Dear Kiran and April,
Good afternoon. I hope this message finds you well. I write with a query about activities in the agenda of LASA Haiti-DR 2015. I don’t know if you know that Routledge is publishing an English translation of Los negros, los mulatos y la nacion dominicana (1969) by Franklin Franco (1936-2013), who was not only the first Dominican scholar to identify race as a mediator of social relations in Dominican society but also the one who most consistently fought Negrophobia and anti-Haitianism in his writings as well as in his public advocacy. He died just a couple of months before the Constitutional Court promulgated its lugubrious sentencia. Otherwise he would have been a leading voice of the opposition just as he was in 2002 when the Minister of Culture gave the Book-of-the-Year Award to a badly written, oddly argued, and ill-conceived volume of anti-Haitian, Negrophobic, and anti-Dominican diaspora lore. Reprinted repeatedly from the very first year of his publication, Franco’s book is a milestone of Caribbean intellectual history, with the difference that, unlike the other major Caribbean classics, it was read by young people and general readers. I was wondering if LASA Haiti-DR 2015 would be interested in hosting some kind of activity formed around the legacy of Franklin Franco and the trajectory of his book. I just thought I would put this idea on the table for your perusal. I look forward to hearing from you when you have a chance. Until then, I wish you a lovely weekend. Regards,
Silvio
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Subject: Fwd: Oct 17 conference
Dear Colleagues,
If you happen to be in New York this coming week, here is an event at Columbia on Imagining the Caribbean.
Dr. Kiran Jayaram
Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculté d'Ethnologie (Université d'Etat d'Haïti)
Lecturer, Haitian Studies (University of Kansas)
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Garcia Pena, Lorgia
Dennis R. Hidalgo
Henry Frank Carey
Unfortunately, LASA's formal deadline has passed as far as the usual panels are concerned. The Haiti-DR business meeting could be used for this purpose, and one could appeal for a presidential panel, as we did a decade ago for the Haitian bi-centennial,
where we hosted the late Guy Alexandre.
Chip
(Haiti-DR section founder)
LeGrace Benson
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