2016
The Outer Periphery: Its Implications for Haiti and Sub-Saharan Countries
CUNY Haitian Studies Institute Inaugural Lecture Series
with Professor Robert Fatton, Jr.
Professor Fatton is the Julia A Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books and a large number of scholarly articles, including Black Consciousness in South Africa (1986); The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975–1985 (1987); Predatory Rule: State and Civil Society in Africa (1992); Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (2002); The Roots of Haitian Despotism (2007); and Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery (2014). He is the recipient of the 2011 Award for Excellence of the Haitian Studies Association for his "commitment and contribution to the emerging field of Haitian Studies for close to a quarter of a century."
Moderator: Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute
October 14, 2016
6–8 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
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