Congratulations! You Don't Look Haitian
Congratulations! You Don't Look Haitian
How and When Does One Look Haitian?
This chapter is a personal testimony of Cécile Accilien, a traditional scholar, and the chapter gives a description of her diasporic identity. The description is built upon her act of defiance against the stereotypes associated with Haiti. Her experiences as a Haitian-American woman residing in the United States form a strong basis of this chapter. Cécile talks about being often congratulated for not looking like a Haitian migrant and at the same time she reflects upon the atrocities faced by Haitians even now. Talking about her journey from being a Haitian immigrant who moved to the U.S. because of opportunities offered to her as an activist working to fight research that claimed that AIDS was being carried to the U.S. via Haitian migrants, Cécile has surely come a long way.
Keywords: Cécile Accilien, diasporic identity, Haiti, stereotypes, Haitian-American, Haitian immigrant, U.S, AIDS
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