Aristide

Celucien L. Joseph currently serves as professor and chair of the English Department at San Jacinto College and visiting professor of theology at Emmaus University in Haiti. His most recent books include Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020), and Theological Education and Christian Scholarship for Human Flourishing: Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Multiculturalism (2022).

• Chapter One: Decolonialism and Postcolonialism in Intellectual Discourse: Method in Political Theology & Developing World Liberation TheologiesChapter Two: Toward the Intellectual and Political Life: Intellectual Foundations for Aristide’s Political Theory and Democratic ParticipationChapter Three: Biblical and Theological Foundations for Aristide’s Political Theology and HermeneuticsChapter Four: Toward a Politico-Theology of Relationality and Justice as SolidarityChapter Five: Aristide and Critical (Theological) Anthropology and EthicsChapter Six: Connecting Democracy and Human Freedom with the Ethics of Ubuntu Chapter Seven: Ubuntu as a Humanism of Love and Interdependence: Aristide’s Theology of Love and RelationalityChapter Eight: Theology, Retributive Justice, and Violence in the Struggle for Democracy in HaitiConclusion: Haiti After Aristide: Hope for a New Future in the 21st CenturyAppendix I: Selected Documents of Universal Catholic Social TeachingAppendix II: English Translation of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s famous Pere Lebrun Speech (Sept. 27, 1991)Appendix III: “One Step at a Time: An interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide” (July 2006)

Haiti holds a revered place in the long history of the Black liberation movement, as the first Black republic in the west and the scene of the greatest anti-colonial uprising the world has ever seen. This hugely impressive book on Aristide by Celucien Joseph provides a theo-political commentary on the continued struggle for Black liberation on this Caribbean island where self-determination remains an essential marker for a people who will never give in or give up on their dreams to be free.