Reconciling Anti-Haitianism and Statelessness Through Religious Practice
Uptown Campus
100A Jones Hall
Greenleaf Conference Room
Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. (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 Bahamian-born people of Haitian descent 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.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY — DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN — DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN STUDIES —
