Video:
Black in the Caribbean
- Race and class
in Haiti and Jamaica
In the wake of the recently aired documentary Black in America, it's interesting to see how Caribbean societies have dealt with skin colour issues, especially Haiti and Jamaica.
Ingrained in Caribbean culture is an unfortunate system of bias based on someone's race, ethnicity, income, and pedigree. Two scholars, Ives Colon (Haiti) and Heather Russell (Jamaica), discuss the origins of this class system and the way it influences both island life and large Caribbean-American communities abroad, such as South Florida.Video: Class system in the Caribbean
Video:The Haitian-American journey "La Belle Vie"
("The Good Life")
A long excerpt of the documentary "La Belle Vie" of Haitian-American filmmaker Rachelle Salnave. La Belle Vie takes a look into a filmmaker's journey to discover her Haitian roots by examining the complexities of the Haitian society but also chronicles her voyage to find hope in this nation on the brink of a new Haiti. Watch it on Vimeo here.
