Wicker Endowment Lecture: Karen Richman

Immigrants to the United States inevitably abandon their old religions to assimilate into mainstream American society. Our national myth is commonsense, but untrue. Haitians, like other contemporary immigrants, have actively expanded their religious linkages to their country of origin as part of the process of settlement in the United States. This lecture explains how Haitian migrants have reformulated religious practices to innovate a transborder system of ritual and kinship relations.

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