Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy and the Academic Director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (2016) and Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean (with Richard Turits) (2021).
Laurent Dubois
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Counter-Plantation Nation
The language and culture of Kreyòl, as well as the Vodou religion, reveal a vision of Haitian sovereignty on behalf of those formerly enslaved.
Heroines of the Haitian Revolution
What is the role of an artist in the face of political repression? What is the place of culture in the midst of injustice and terror? Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet …
Virtual Roundtable on “Orange Is the New Black”
In advance of the second season of Netflix’s original series, Orange Is the New Black, which will be released on Friday, June 6, we asked Public Books contributors to share their views on the show’s representation of race, gender, sexuality, incarceration, and the women-in-prison genre. —Heather Love: Made For TV —Megan Comfort: The Two Pipers […]
