Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, and Religious Practice in the Bahamas
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Please join us this Thursday, November 7th from 3:30 – 5:00pm for the first installment of the CDTS Speaker Series!
Professor Bertin M. Louis Jr., Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky will kick of the series with his lecture titled "Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, and Religious Practice in the Bahamas"
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.
