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Edwidge Danticat

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1. “Aides and who came to a hospital here in Miami and were reported to the CDC. And so that killed really, that designation killed the tourism industry in Haiti. It was later after much demonstrations, after a lot of research, it was corrected, but it really killed whatever tourism industry there was in Haiti, which was already kind of a strange kind of tourism anyway because if people felt like happy to go at a time of very strict dictatorship, that there was always already something a little strange about that. But whatever tourism industry there was was destroyed by the age epidemic.”

   2020-11-04 · Conversations with Tyler · Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Well, yeah, there was a time even in the 50s where you had cruise ships going to Haiti, which I've always found somewhat interesting because all that time that you had that the tourism, that high level of tourism was still doing the dictatorship. And so people were going at that time anyway, the folks you mentioned and others. And then in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic then Haiti was designated by the CDC as Haitians were labeled a highways group for AIDS and we were the only ones designated by nationality. It was patients homophiliacs, herring addicts and homosexuals. And so that certainly came out of some cases of people who had come”

   2020-11-04 · Conversations with Tyler · Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Well, I often see that, and my parents used to say it as well, that I left Haiti, but Haiti didn't leave me. And 12 is, I think, young enough to transition somewhat easily, but also to have formed so many memories and to have actually had a big chunk of primary education in Haiti and having learned both oral history and written history. So I brought a lot of that with me to the US and enough that I was curious when I got here to find out more from this side of things. So I think it was in part a love for Haiti that continued and also a curiosity about history in general, but Haitian history in particular.”

   2020-11-04 · Conversations with Tyler · Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source