Amy Wilentz On Haiti

HaitiJuly 22, 2013 – Segment 1

The award-winning Amy Wilentz joins us to discuss her newest book, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti. Wilentz tackles the objectification of Haiti’s victimization and searches for why Haitians – in the eyes of the West – are not seen as active controllers of their own destiny.

Wilentz teaches in the Literary Journalism program at the University of California at Irvine.

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