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Article: Haiti and Black Transnationalism: Remapping the Migrant Geography of Home to Harlem.(Critical Essay)
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- African American Review
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- September 22, 2000
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Why did Occupation & Uplift come in? As a capitalistic empire, we needed surplus markets; and Haiti lay at our side entrance. Moreover, it fell within the allotted sphere of influence of the National City Bank of New York. The history of Haiti during the first quarter of the twentieth century is a footnote to the annals of that bank. (Clement Wood, "The American Uplift in Haiti" 189)
"Home to Harlem" ... for the most part nauseates me, and after the dirtier parts of its filth I feel distinctly like taking a bath. (W. E. B. Du Bois, "Two Novels" 202)
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