Comments for Michele Wucker http://wucker.com Michele Wucker's books, essays, media commentary, and events Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:22:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Rachel Maddow show appearance Thursday, January 14 by Michele Wucker: A Woman Making History – WMC Blog http://wucker.com/?p=203&cpage=1#comment-6107 Michele Wucker: A Woman Making History – WMC Blog Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:22:53 +0000 http://wucker.com/?p=203#comment-6107 [...] her interview on The Rachel Maddow Show just two days after the earthquake, Michele illuminated how the crisis had [...] [...] her interview on The Rachel Maddow Show just two days after the earthquake, Michele illuminated how the crisis had [...]

]]> Comment on WHY THE COCKS FIGHT by Michele Wucker: A Woman Making History – WMC Blog http://wucker.com/?page_id=38&cpage=1#comment-6106 Michele Wucker: A Woman Making History – WMC Blog Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:18:32 +0000 http://wucker.com/?page_id=38#comment-6106 [...] Republic was needed by a public shaken by devastation in a country they barely knew. Her book 1999 Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispanola was hailed by the New York Times as a “complex exploration of the cultural divide between [...] [...] Republic was needed by a public shaken by devastation in a country they barely knew. Her book 1999 Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispanola was hailed by the New York Times as a “complex exploration of the cultural divide between [...]

]]> Comment on WHY THE COCKS FIGHT by Haiti: The Land of the Unknowns – WMC Blog http://wucker.com/?page_id=38&cpage=1#comment-5257 Haiti: The Land of the Unknowns – WMC Blog Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:52 +0000 http://wucker.com/?page_id=38#comment-5257 [...] of the complex and painful history between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the West, read Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola by Michele Wucker. And numerous hurricanes and tropical storms have leveled this country in the past without any [...] [...] of the complex and painful history between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the West, read Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola by Michele Wucker. And numerous hurricanes and tropical storms have leveled this country in the past without any [...]

]]> Comment on 2010 Reading List (Michele’s Best of 2009) by Linda Dahl http://wucker.com/?p=187&cpage=1#comment-4858 Linda Dahl Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:39:06 +0000 http://wucker.com/?p=187#comment-4858 Michele, Thank you for including me in your awesome list of recent books. As a fellow introvert, I am especially interested in your friend's on the topic. All the best to you this year. Linda Michele,
Thank you for including me in your awesome list of recent
books. As a fellow introvert, I am especially interested in
your friend’s on the topic. All the best to you this year.
Linda

]]> Comment on Bio by Worldfocus Radio: Haiti and DR -- Unequal Neighbors | Worldfocus http://wucker.com/?page_id=109&cpage=1#comment-4592 Worldfocus Radio: Haiti and DR -- Unequal Neighbors | Worldfocus Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:06:22 +0000 http://wucker.com/?page_id=109#comment-4592 [...] Michele Wucker is the executive director of the World Policy Institute in New York City and the author of “Why Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola.” She also was a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow working on evolving notions of citizenship, belonging and exclusion. Her work involves the politics and economics of immigration and integration, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean and international finance. [...] [...] Michele Wucker is the executive director of the World Policy Institute in New York City and the author of “Why Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola.” She also was a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow working on evolving notions of citizenship, belonging and exclusion. Her work involves the politics and economics of immigration and integration, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean and international finance. [...]

]]> Comment on Rachel Maddow show appearance Thursday, January 14 by Joan E. Wilson http://wucker.com/?p=203&cpage=1#comment-4529 Joan E. Wilson Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:20:52 +0000 http://wucker.com/?p=203#comment-4529 Knowledge is wonderful, zeal admirable, understanding essential; but wisdom is the chief thing. I have ordered Why the Cocks Fight after hearing you comment on the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is the hope for future advancement of predominantly Black societies that the new generation of "first world" analyst-experts will not impose their partially informed interpretations of third and fourth world current and historical experiences, proposing remedies which compound and extend the "oppression by proxy" of Black people, as did their analyst predecessors who fueled policies which deconstructed community-building efforts of colonized people. The inconvenient politics melanin, the child of centuries of racialism, dominates intra-societal and inter-societal relations in the Caribbean and South America. Political correctness and illusions of a post-racial America create inadvertent or opportunistic blindness to issues along the continuum of color as well as to class and group loyalties which have outlived slavery and decolonization or mimic first world societies. Haitians are grateful for mercy shown by all of the international community and would hope that their neighbor will be duly reimbursed for the financial strain it has incurred in aiding Haiti in this time of its extreme need. However, the leaders and the people of the two countries are the ones to decide how their relationship will be healed. Haitians would not wish to have modern rebuilding to accommodate 21st Century socio-economic oppression or political manipulation by proxy. It is unlikely our policy analysts would suggest in time of human crisis and humanitarian response by India to Pakistan's needs that India take a dominant role in Pakistan's rebuilding or that Vietnam become active in developing Cambodia after some human crisis. Illusions of a post-racial America creates inadvertent or opportunistic blindness to issues along continuum of color class and group loyalties which plague superficial third world cohesion. Any appearance of imposing the American nurtured advantages of the Dominican Republic upon Haiti is setting the stage for the next generation of unrest. Those are two separate (Spanish-American-Caribbean, and French-African-Caribbean) cultures though some of the people look alike. Despite shared borders, each country has a fierce desire to be independently and separately respected on the world stage as do Israel and Palestine. If there is healing let it come from the grass-roots of the societies involved not from seemingly manipulative or manipulated American policy sweetened by economic advantages. Let it come from the people involved. If America is committed to aiding Haiti and leading the world community in efforts towards Haiti's collective-self-respecting rebuilding, a shared border and African heritage unacknowledged and acknowledged, have not been and should not now be grounds enough for external actors to pressure false and untimely accord. Knowledge is wonderful, zeal admirable, understanding essential; but wisdom is the chief thing. I have ordered Why the Cocks Fight after hearing you comment on the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is the hope for future advancement of predominantly Black societies that the new generation of “first world” analyst-experts will not impose their partially informed interpretations of third and fourth world current and historical experiences, proposing remedies which compound and extend the “oppression by proxy” of Black people, as did their analyst predecessors who fueled policies which deconstructed community-building efforts of colonized people.
The inconvenient politics melanin, the child of centuries of racialism, dominates intra-societal and inter-societal relations in the Caribbean and South America. Political correctness and illusions of a post-racial America create inadvertent or opportunistic blindness to issues along the continuum of color as well as to class and group loyalties which have outlived slavery and decolonization or mimic first world societies.
Haitians are grateful for mercy shown by all of the international community and would hope that their neighbor will be duly reimbursed for the financial strain it has incurred in aiding Haiti in this time of its extreme need. However, the leaders and the people of the two countries are the ones to decide how their relationship will be healed. Haitians would not wish to have modern rebuilding to accommodate 21st Century socio-economic oppression or political manipulation by proxy.
It is unlikely our policy analysts would suggest in time of human crisis and humanitarian response by India to Pakistan’s needs that India take a dominant role in Pakistan’s rebuilding or that Vietnam become active in developing Cambodia after some human crisis.
Illusions of a post-racial America creates inadvertent or opportunistic blindness to issues along continuum of color class and group loyalties which plague superficial third world
cohesion. Any appearance of imposing the American nurtured advantages of the Dominican Republic upon Haiti is setting the stage for the next generation of unrest. Those are two separate (Spanish-American-Caribbean, and French-African-Caribbean) cultures though some of the people look alike. Despite shared borders, each country has a fierce desire to be independently and separately respected on the world stage as do Israel and Palestine. If there is healing let it come from the grass-roots of the societies involved not from seemingly manipulative or manipulated American policy sweetened by economic advantages. Let it come from the people involved.
If America is committed to aiding Haiti and leading the world community in efforts towards Haiti’s collective-self-respecting rebuilding, a shared border and African heritage unacknowledged and acknowledged, have not been and should not now be grounds enough for external actors to pressure false and untimely accord.

]]> Comment on Rachel Maddow show appearance Thursday, January 14 by kettelye haynes http://wucker.com/?p=203&cpage=1#comment-4504 kettelye haynes Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:14:50 +0000 http://wucker.com/?p=203#comment-4504 I saw you today at MSNBC and really enjoyed the talk. I didn't have a chance to take down the name of the book about haiti and dominican republic. Please let me know the name and the price of the book and where I can get it easily. Thank you, Kettelye I saw you today at MSNBC and really enjoyed the talk. I didn’t have a chance to take down the name of the book about haiti and dominican republic. Please let me know the name and the price of the book and where I can get it easily. Thank you,

Kettelye

]]> Comment on WHY THE COCKS FIGHT by March travel-study course to Batey Libertad « Fundación de Libertad http://wucker.com/?page_id=38&cpage=1#comment-3626 March travel-study course to Batey Libertad « Fundación de Libertad Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:50:22 +0000 http://wucker.com/?page_id=38#comment-3626 [...] both fiction and non-fiction, including The Farming of the Bones by Edwidge Danticat and Why the Cocks Fight by Michele Wucker. These readings will provide a historical foundation on which to base  [...] [...] both fiction and non-fiction, including The Farming of the Bones by Edwidge Danticat and Why the Cocks Fight by Michele Wucker. These readings will provide a historical foundation on which to base  [...]

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