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Get ready for a long post.

Okay I've broken this down into sites and books. I would give more of an explanation on the books but...well...you know.

Sites

* Site 1

* Site 2

* Site 3

Books

* Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture by Charles Arthur

* The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States by Edwidge Danticat

* After the Dance : A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti by Edwidge Danticat

*The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat <----WONDERFUL!!! MUST READ!!!

* Song of Haiti by Barry Paris

* Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti by Frances Temple

* The Magic Orange Tree : and Other Haitian Folktales by Diane Wolkstein

* Tap-Tap by Karen Lynn Williams (If anyone is in the South Florida area, theres a Haitian restaurant named Tap Tap!

* The Uses of Haiti, Updated Edition by Paul Farmer

* Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat

* Toussaint L'ouverture : The Fight for Haiti's Freedom by Walter Dean Myers and Jacob Lawernce

* Haitian Revolutionary Studies (Blacks in the Diaspora) by David Patrick Geggus

* Maroon by Danielle Legros

* Where Art Is Joy: Haitian Art : The First Forty Years by Selden Rodman <-----I love art so it was good for what it was!

* Toussaint L'ouverture : The Fight for Haiti's Freedom by Walter Dean Myers and Jacob Lawrence

* Getting Haiti Right This Time : The U.S. and the Coup by Amy Goodman <----About the current problems in Haiti and Aristide leave. I haven't read it but its on my list.

* Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance by Beverly Bell, Edwidge Danticat <----Just wonderful! Maybe I'm biased...

* From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race Colour, and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholl<---- I have this book and its still sitting on my shelf. Maybe you can get through it because I can't seem to.


Well that's it for now. I hope I helped!

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En2zasm, suggested that "Farming of the Bones" by Edwidge Danticat be included on this list and she is absolutely correct. I recommend this to everyone.