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Archival Voices | Yveline Alexis: “Haitian Voices and Multilingual Sources”

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge

About the Event
Yveline Alexis, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College will speak about the importance of Caribbean archives and multilingual sources. She will explore how drawing on Haitian archives and voices significantly changes historical narratives about the Haitian resistance against U.S. imperialism.

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About the Speaker
Yveline Alexis is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. In her first book, Haiti Fights Back: The Life & Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte, she explores Haitian resistance to the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. Relying on international archives and multilingual sources, she studies the life of the politician and guerrilla fighter Charlemagne Péralte and locates Haitian women and men who also protested against U.S. imperialism in intellectual, artistic, and religious ways. For Haiti Fights Back, Professor Alexis received the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize. More broadly, her research and teaching interests include the history of the Caribbean, the Americas, and the African diaspora, memory studies, and oral history.