1 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 1-2. Pérez,
Emma. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History, 126-127.
2 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 2; hereafter
cited in parentheses in the text.
3 Pérez, Emma. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History, 160, 126.
4 It is worth noting that the current Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush—an oil and real
estate investor, the grandson of President George H. Bush, nephew of President George W. Bush, and son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Mexican-American mother— recently won the University of Texas at Austin’s first Latino Leadership Award and currently controls the historical archives as well as the grounds of the Alamo. His tenure as ward of the Alamo has been controversial. He has privatized the management of the historical site and removed its caretakers, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT). In April 2015 the DRT sued Bush for assuming control of the archives that their organization gathered and maintained for over a century. Clearly, the battle over the memory of the Alamo is far from over.
5 Pérez, Emma. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History, 126. 6 Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” 112. 7 Decena, Carlos Ulises. Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire Among Dominican
Immigrant Men, 242.
8 La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. Queer Ricans : Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora,
xiv.
9 Accilien, Cécile & François, Anne. “Islands without Borders,” 46.
10 Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. “Bridging Islands: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Caribbean,” 273-274. 11 Soto-Crespo, Ramón E. Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico, 11.
12 Soto-Crespo, Ramón E. Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico, 6-7.
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. “Bridging Islands: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Caribbean,” 272.
13 The two parts of this chapter are of unequal length for a rather practical reason. Whereas each
succeeding chapter in this dissertation after this one addresses Caribbean Latina/o cultural production critically read in conjunction with Latina/o Studies theory and criticism from, this chapter provides the only space dedicated exclusively to Haitian Studies. I therefore felt
14 Volumes such as Lorgia García Peña’s Archiving Contradictions: Bodies, Nations and the
Production of Dominicanidad, under contract at Duke University Press, and María Cristina Fumagalli’s On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which will be published in June 2015 by Liverpool University Press, are beginning to address this lack of comparative studies addressing the impact of Haiti in Dominican Studies. My scholarship is, to my knowledge, the first to look at legacies of the Haitian Revolution across the Hispanophone Caribbean and its diasporas.
15 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 27. 16 Nesbitt, Nick. “Turning the Tide: The Problem of Popular Insurgency in Haitian
Revolutionary Historiography,” 28.
17 Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, 6. 18 Geggus, David Patrick. Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 42.
19 Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History, and the Gods, xvii.
20 Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, 1. 21 In the preface to the first edition of The Black Jacobins, C.L.R. James writes, “The revolt is
the only successful slave revolt in history,” (ix). The idea has been repeated often since, notably by Laurent Dubois (1), J. Michael Dash (2001; 2), and Susan Buck-Morss (59).
22 There are unfortunately too many examples available of how the Haitian Revolution and Haiti
have been cast as failures to list them all here. In an interview with Haitian anthropologist and artist Gina Ulysse, Sibylle Fischer offers, “one of the more egregious examples,” of how Haiti has been isolated and cast as a failure from Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations (1996) in which, “Huntington argues that Haiti belongs to the category of countries that are not part of any of the world’s great civilizations… “Haiti, ‘the neighbor nobody wants,’ is truly a kinless
country” (72).
23 Nesbitt, Nick. “The Idea of 1804,” 8.
24 Reinhardt, Thomas. “Two Hundred Years of Forgetting: Hushing up the Haitian Revolution,”
252; hereafter cited in parentheses in the text.
25 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 27;
hereafter cited in parentheses in the text.
27 Dessalines, Jean-Jacques. “Liberty or Death. Proclamation. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Governor
General, to the People of Hayti.”
28 For an in depth analysis of the Taino origins of Haiti’s name, see David Patrick Geggus’s “The
Naming of Haiti” in Haitian Revolutionary Studies (2002).
29 Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, 7.
30 James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution,
388.
31 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 82. 32 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 104.
Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, 2.
33 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 27. 34 James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution,
288.
35 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 82, 87;
hereafter cited in parentheses in the text..
36 Scott, David. Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, 102. 37 Fick, Carolyn. The Making of Haïti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below, xiii;
hereafter cited in parentheses in the text.
38 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 88. James,
C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, 288.
39 Qtd. in Scott, David. Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, 170. 40 James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution,
13.
41 Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, 2.
42 James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution,
viii.
Mali, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Senegal, Nigeria, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania gained independence.
44 After 1962 Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada,
Suriname, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis gained independence.
45 James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution,
vii, 391-392.
46 James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution,
viii. Qtd. in Scott, David. Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, 170.
47 James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution,
418.
48 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 152-153;
hereafter cited in parentheses in the text.
49 Scott, David. Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, 1. 50 Hutton, Clinton A. The Logic & Historic Significance of the Haitian Revolution & the
Cosmological Roots of Haitian Freedom, 1; hereafter cited in parentheses in the text.
51 Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature, 132.
52 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 70. 53 Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History, and the Gods, xviii; hereafter cited in parentheses in the text. 54 Pérez, Emma. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History, 6; hereafter cited in
parentheses in the text.
55 Danielson, Marivel T. Homecoming Queers: Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina
Cultural Production, 170; hereafter cited in parentheses in the text.
56 Here I refer specifically to labor in student affairs and diversity and multicultural affairs at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. While I have found mentors and allies in every corner of the university, navigating the politics around the creation of the Carolina Latina/o
Collaborative when it was just the dream of undergraduate was at times very trying for myself and other Latina/o students, faculty, and staff who volunteered to participate in the process.
58 Moraga, Cherríe. “Theory in the Flesh,” 23.
59 Anzaldúa, Gloria. “now let us shift...the path of conocimiento...inner work, public acts,” 578. 60 Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 81.
61 Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. 62 Ibid.
63 Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 19. 64 Alvarez, Julia. “Gloria Anzaldúa, que en paz descanse.”