Harlem Renaissance Haiti

Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 is the key source for this note. She shows that by the 1920s and 1930s Haiti was not only an object of white U.S. exoticism, but also a site of Black reclamation. Writers, artists, and performers such as Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, Katherine Dunham, and Zora Neale Hurston mined Haitian history and culture for different kinds of political and aesthetic work.