As the Bowdoin-Haitian Alliance gears up for a week of events to commemorate the earthquake of February 2010, I find myself trying to condense my list of campus obligations. What is, after all, realistic? What's most important? I recently realized that the entirety of my interaction with Haiti has been indirect. In 2007, I was a Spanish-obsessed high school student working in what had been a Haitian cane-cutter community in the Dominican Republic. Anyone familiar with Dominican racial currents will understand the controversy of my interest about the flux of Haitians from the other side of the island, but my program directors were eager to tell the tragedy of Haiti.
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