- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 We Don’t Have Enough Water to Make Tears
- 2 What We Have, We Share
- 3 Pearl of the Antilles
- 4 Maroon Man
- 5 We Will Carry You On
- 6 You Can’t Eat Okra with One Finger
- 7 Fragile as a Crystal
- 8 Children of the Land
- 9 Grains and Guns
- 10 The Ones Who Must Decide
- 11 Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
- 12 The Creole Connection
- 13 We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War
- 14 Social Fault Lines
- 15 Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice
- 16 Home
- 17 For Want of Twenty Cents
- 18 The Super Bowl of Disasters
- 19 The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic
- 20 Beyond Medical Care
- 21 Hold Strong
- 22 Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There
- 23 The Central Pillar
- 24 Elections
- 25 We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting
- Epilogue
- Index
Social Fault Lines
Social Fault Lines
Class and Catastrophe
- Chapter:
- (p.118) 14 Social Fault Lines
- Source:
- Fault Lines
- Author(s):
Beverly Bell
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter examines the social fault lines caused by the Haitian earthquake. Haiti sits directly over a major fault system made up of multiple faults, one or more of which slipped on January 12, 2010. Equally disastrous over time has been the socioeconomic fault line. People of every class and skin shade lost loved ones, homes, businesses, and personal treasures as a result of the earthquake. The earthquake's impact was as sharply delineated by class as the nation itself was, with the degree of harm, whether physical or economic, roughly paralleling income. The poor had no means through which to recover their losses, especially those on which they had depended for income; their personal catastrophes only cascaded with time. This chapter comments on the perpetuation of inequality and worsening of poverty in Haiti after the earthquake.
Keywords: earthquake, Haiti, class, income, poor, inequality, poverty
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 We Don’t Have Enough Water to Make Tears
- 2 What We Have, We Share
- 3 Pearl of the Antilles
- 4 Maroon Man
- 5 We Will Carry You On
- 6 You Can’t Eat Okra with One Finger
- 7 Fragile as a Crystal
- 8 Children of the Land
- 9 Grains and Guns
- 10 The Ones Who Must Decide
- 11 Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
- 12 The Creole Connection
- 13 We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War
- 14 Social Fault Lines
- 15 Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice
- 16 Home
- 17 For Want of Twenty Cents
- 18 The Super Bowl of Disasters
- 19 The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic
- 20 Beyond Medical Care
- 21 Hold Strong
- 22 Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There
- 23 The Central Pillar
- 24 Elections
- 25 We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting
- Epilogue
- Index
