Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti

Diane M. Hoffman is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Education in the Department of Educational Leadership, Foundations and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Education, USA. She is the author of Quiet Riot: The Culture of Teaching and Learning in Schools (2015), and co-editor of Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self, and Politics (2013).

• Introduction: Toward a Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti1. Pouring Love In: Emotion, Power, and White Saviorism in Haitian Childhood2. Learning to See: Tout sa w we se pa sa3. "These Are My Children!": White Love and Child Rescue in Haiti4. Becoming Someone: Personhood and Education Among Haiti’s Marginalized Children5. Bringing Them “Home”: Childhood and the Remaking of Family in Haiti6. The Sensorium: Embodied Being and Learning in Children's Worlds7. Beyond Trauma: Caring and Belonging in Children's Lives8. Practicing Hope: Movement, Personhood, and Survivance in Haitian Childhood9. From Doing Good to Good Doing: Haiti, Childhood, and an Anthropological Praxis for the FutureReferencesIndex

A wonderfully written and compelling account of the resilience and agency of children in Haiti. It celebrates the joy and strength they find in even the harshest of circumstances, which so often goes unnoticed by the well-meaning foreigners who have flooded into the country hoping to ‘save’ them.