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"Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country's traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Erin L. Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention. One maintains imperialist notions of a backward Haiti so riddled with cultural deficiencies that foreign supervision is necessary to overcome Haitians' resistance to progress. The other sees Haiti as a modern but failed state that exists only through its capacity for violence, including homophobia. In the context of these competing claims, Durban explores the creative ways that same-sex desiring and gender creative Haitians contend with anti-LGBTQI violence and ongoing foreign intervention. Compelling and thought-provoking, The Sexual Politics of Empire examines LGBTQI life in contemporary Haiti against the backdrop of American imperialism and intervention"--
List of contents
Acknowledgments Dedications
Introduction
1 Perverting Haiti: The Transnational Imperialist Discourse of the Black Republic as the Premodern Land of “Voodoo/Vaudoux”
2008
3 Evangelical Christian Homophobia and the Michèle Pierre-Louis Controversy
4 “Zonbi, Zonbi” at the Ghetto Biennale: A Queer Act of Intervention against Postcolonial Homophobia
2010
5 The Sexual Politics of Rescue: The Global LGBTQI and Postcolonial Homophobia after the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
2013
6 The Emergence of a Social Movement against Homophobia
Epilogue: The Transnational #BlackLivesMatter Movement and the Serialization of Black (Queer) Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Erin L. Durban is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
