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Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti

When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened to believe that they could take control of their lives. But how? Joining hundreds of thousands of other peasants trying to adjust to urban life, Joegodson and his family sought work and a means of survival. But all they found was low-waged assembly plant jobs of the sort to which the repressive Duvalier regime had opened Haiti’s doors—the combination of flexible capital and cheap labour too attractive to multinational manufacturers to be overlooked. With the death of his mother, Joegodson was placed in his uncle’s care, and so began a childhood of starvation, endless labour, and abuse.

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Series Title
Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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390 pages
Publisher
Canada : AU Press.,
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Language
English
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9781771990110.01
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390 pages
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Canadian History, History,
Indigenous Studies, Memoir
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Arin
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