Intended to regulate Black women and reinforce the racial hierarchy, these tignon laws had the opposite effect: Creole women ...

Schaëlda Joseph is using Creole and cultural pride to inspire Haiti's youth. From classrooms to Toastmasters, she’s fostering ...

Couti suggests that this cross-pollination still persists. Eventually, representations of Creole women’s bodies (white and black) bring two competing conceptions of nationalism into play: a local, ...