Scholar Colloquium: Anti-Haitianism in Paradise

Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
2023-2024 Wenner-Gren Fellow, School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, NM)
Affiliation at time of award: Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Kentucky

"Anti-Haitianism in Paradise: Marginalization, Stigma, and Antiblackness in the Bahamas"

In his book project, Dr. Louis presents a study about the historical foundation and the contemporary realities of discrimination, stigma, and xenophobia against Haitians in the Bahamas. By studying local transformations in the Bahamas pertaining to its Haitian population, Louis offers a greater understanding of the adoption of anti-Haitianism as a political and nation-building strategy for the Bahamas and how antiblackness operates among people of African descent nationally, regionally and globally.