![]() ![]() I was a student at Princeton, and in class with Barbara Browning, who was thinking about these issues as well – and also was lucky enough to get to know Colin Dayan (who was on a fellowship there) who helped me with my early explorations on Haiti. What was it about our culture that made the idea of Haiti as a source of disease seem so natural, I wondered. But I was struck by how easily the accusations against Haitians were accepted in this country. As a child of scientists who were partially involved in AIDS research, I knew the theories about the virus’ origins were tenuous and in many cases spurious. My interest in Haiti actually began when I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s, at the moment when Haitians were accused of having brought AIDS to the U.S. What led you to Haiti, and the French Caribbean more generally, as a site of research? He is a co-director of the “ Haiti Lab,” the first humanities laboratory at Duke’s Franklin Humanities Institute, he blogs on soccer and tweets as and he is currently writing a cultural history of the banjo. ![]() His publications include Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France, and, most recently, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. ![]() Laurent Dubois is a Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University who is a specialist in the history and culture of France and the Caribbean. ![]()
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