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Fault Lines : Views across Haiti's Divide.
Title:
Fault Lines : Views across Haiti's Divide.
Author:
Bell, Beverly.
ISBN:
9780801468322
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Fault Lines -- Contents -- Foreword by Edwidge Danticat -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thirty-Five Seconds -- 1. We Don't Have Enough Water to Make Tears: Surviving the Earthquake, or Not -- 2. What We Have, We Share: Solidarity Undergirds Rescue and Relief -- 3. Pearl of the Antilles: The Political Economy of Peril -- 4. Maroon Man: Social Movements throughout History -- 5. We Will Carry You On: The Women's Movement -- 6. You Can't Eat Okra with One Finger: Community-Run Humanitarian Aid -- 7. Fragile as a Crystal (Tales from Three Months Out) -- 8. Children of the Land: Small Farmers and Agriculture -- 9. Grains and Guns: Foreign Aid and Reconstruction -- 10. The Ones Who Must Decide: Social Movements in the Reconstruction -- 11. Our Bodies Are Shaking Now: Violence against Girls and Women -- 12. The Creole Connection: People-to-People Aid and Solidarity across Borders -- 13. We've Lost the Battle, but We Haven't Lost the War (Tales from Six Months Out) -- 14. Social Fault Lines: Class and Catastrophe -- 15. Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice: The Politics of Food Aidand Trade -- 16. Home: From Tent Camp to Community -- 17. For Want of Twenty Cents: Children's Rights and Protection -- 18. The Super Bowl of Disasters: Profiting from Crisis -- 19. The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic (Tales from Nine Months Out) -- 20. Beyond Medical Care: The Health of the Nation -- 21. Hold Strong: The Pros and Pitfalls of Resilience -- 22. Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There: The Offshore Assembly Industry -- 23. The Central Pillar: Peasant Women -- 24. Elections (In the Time of Cholera) -- 25. We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting (Tales from Twelve Months Out) -- Epilogue: Bringing It Back Home -- Notes -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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