Haitian American Dream : Home

The Haitian American Dream examines the events and the forgotten stories of Haitian immigrants in the United States. In so doing, it explains the reasons behind the different waves of Haitian migration, its ongoing impacts, and upheavals so that, as Michel-Rolph Trouillot states, the stories of “the actors who participate in the production of history or any of the sites where that production” transpired are told.

Timeline created by Alexandra Cenatus, Ivanna Moreno, and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt in collaboration with the UF Mellon Intersections Group on Global Blackness and Latinx Identity . Intersections is organized by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere in partnership with the George A. Smathers Libraries with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.​

• Cartright, Evelyn. “The Plight of Haitian Refugees in South Florida,” Journal of Haitian Studies. (Fall 2006)
• Charles, Carolle. "Political Refugees or Economic Immigrants?: A New "Old Debate" within the Haitian Immigrant Communities but with Contestations and Division," Journal of American Ethnic History. (Spring 2006)
• Lundy, Garvey F. "Early Saint Domignan Migration to America and the Attraction of Philadelphia," Journal of Haitian Studies. (Spring 2006)
• Perusek, Glenn. "Haitian Emigration in the Early Twentieth Century," The International Migration Review. (Spring 1984)
• Pierre-Louis, Francois. "A Long Journey from Protest to Incorporation: The Political Development of Haitians in New York City," The Journal of Haitian Studies. (Fall 2011)
• Ritsert Bergman, Tabe. "Polite Conquest?" The New York Times and The Nation on the American Occupation of Haiti," Journal of Haitian Studies. (Fall 2011)
• Stepick, Alex and Alejandro Portes. "Flight into Despair: A Profile of Recent Haitian Refugees in South Florida," The International Migration Review. (Summer 1986)
• Stepick, Alex and Alejandro Portes. "Unwelcome Immigrants: The Labor Market Experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida," American Sociological Review. (August 1985)

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