Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, and Religious Practice in the Bahamas – CDTS

On Nov. 7, join the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies for the lecture, “Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, and Religious Practice in the Bahamas” with Professor Bertin M. Louis Jr.

About the lecture:

Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. (Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky) will lecture on the development of religious habitus through embodied worship at a Haitian Protestant church. There, stateless second-generation Haitians worship within a Black, Christian and anti-Haitian Bahamas. Adherent use of Haitian Protestant hymnody, liturgical dance and prayer reflects social processes of individual and collective self-remaking through embodied and linguistic practices. This creates a unique, hybrid Christian habitus which helps them negotiate cultural belonging in the Bahamas.