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‘THE NEW AMERICANS Flore Zéphir 2 nC - ~ PO JULO 7 2005 ly “hs - “hey The Haitian Americans P North Atlantic lle de la Tortue Ocean Windward Passage A Port-de-Paix Cap-Haitien Gonaives Golfe de la Gonave Saint-Marc etl inche ile de la Gonave SS Hispaniola PORT-AU-PRINCE Jérémie Miragoane Jacmel DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Caribbean Sea Haiti. [he altian Americans Flore Zéplur Jamies bdgar and Jean Jessop Hervey Point Loma Branch Library 3 1336 06846 6490 THE NEW AMERICANS Ronald H. Bayor, Series Editor GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut ¢ London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zéphir, Flore, 1958— The Haitian Americans / Flore Zéphir. p. cm.—(The New Americans, ISSN 1092-6364) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-313-32296-1 1. Haitian Americans. I. Title. Il. New Americans (Westport, Conn.) E184.H27Z458 2004 973’ .0049697294—dc22 2004011229 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2004 by Flore Zéphir All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004011229 ISBN: 0-313-32296-1 ISSN: 1092-6364 First published in 2004 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Perin ted in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). iQ) SY SEE AG. Sh ee Copyright Acknowledgments The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission for use of the following: Excerpts from Marguerite Laurent’s poem “An Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress” used by permission of Marguerite Laurent. Contents Series Foreword Vil Preface Acknowledgments Xi 1, Introduction 2 Haiti: Colonial Times 23 3 Haiti: The Making of a Nation 4] 4 Coming to the United States 67 5. No Longer Invisible: Haitian Ethnic Communities 89 6 Making It in America: Haitian Immigrants’ Ethnic Options 117 Ze Haitian Impact on American Society 141 Appendix: Noted Haitian Americans tok Works Cited 173 Index Wa) Ald a - ee are
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