Haiti, Africology, Imperialism & Vodou

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith teaches in the Africology Dept of UW-Milwaukee with special expertise in Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Haiti, where he grew up and where he was initiated as a voodoo (or vodou) houngan (priest). Patrick has collaborated on and written a number of books including:

Haiti: The Breached Citadel
Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World
Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality
- with Claudine Michel

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including coups and foreign interests that put in the systematic corruption.
and what drove him to study what he studies
and where a lot of the things claimed about voduo came from.
and how there are still plenty of racist attitudes in our nation.
and the nature of most religions
and the effect on Haiti, and our imperialist actions against other nations in our region

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