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American odysseyBook 1984 • Laguerre, Michel S.
Haitian Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This book presents, from an anthropological perspective, an assessment of the development and socio-economic adaptation of the Haitian community to life in New York City (p. 14).The author first describes the Haitian migrations to the United States i...Urban life in the CaribbeanBook 1983 • Laguerre, Michel S.
Haitians • Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This book, by a native Haitian scholar, presents an analysis of urban life in Haiti through a study of a downtown Port-au-Prince community called Upper Belair. Home to influential Voodoo practioners and a poor majority, this slum community is known i...