Black women in the marketplace: everyday gender-based risks against Haiti&apos;s <i>madan saras</i> (women traders)

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[1] Borns, P. (2012) ‘Interview: Haitian Minister of Women's Affairs Marie Yanick Mezile’, October, 27. Accessed October, 5, 2015 from http://www.madamsara.com/reportersnotebook/haitis-minister-of-womens-affairs-marie-yannick-mezile/

[2] Cassagnol, E. (15 August 2014) ‘Madan sara rançonnées, battues, violées à Croix-des-Bossales, dans l'indifférence’, Alter/Presse . Accessed October, 5, 2015 from http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article16824#.VNz4JWPwqQJ.

[3] Collins, D., J. Morduch, S. Rutherford & O. Ruthven (2009) Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day , Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

[4] Crenshaw, K. (1991) ‘Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of colour’, Stanford Law Review 43 (6):1241–99.

[5] Development Alternatives Inc. (2013) ‘Etude initiale des cinq filières prioritaires’, Agridev. Program title, USAID FTFN. Contract no. AID-522-C-1100004 (By Stephan Jean-Pierre, Helene Kiremidjian and Junior Paul).

[6] Dorte, V. (2008) ‘Labor markets in urban and rural Haiti: Based on the first household survey for Haiti’, WPS-4574, The World Bank Group, Social Development, Sustainable Development Division, March.

[7] Fatton, R. (2002) Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy , Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

[8] Few, A.L. (2007) ‘Integrating Black consciousness and critical race feminism into family studies research’, Journal of Family Issues , 28 (4):452–73.

[9] Food and Agriculture Organization/World Food Program. (2010) ‘Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to Haiti’, Special Report, 21 September.

[10] Girard, P. (2010) Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation , New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

[11] Government of Haiti. National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP), May 2010. Accessed October, 6, 2015 from http://www.agriculture.gouv.ht/view/01/?Plan-National-d-investissement.

[12] Hill Collins, P. (2000) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment , New York: Routledge.

[13] Hossein, C.S. (2014a) ‘The exclusion of Afro-Guyanese in micro-banking’, The European Review of Latin America and Caribbean Studies , 96 (1):75–98.

[14] Hossein, C.S. (2014b) ‘Haiti's Caisses Populaires: Home-grown solutions to bring economic democracy’, International Journal of Social Economics , 41 (1):42–59.

[15] Hossein, C.S. (2014c) ‘Understanding gender-specific constraints for Haiti's women micro-entrepreneurs in the northern corridor’, Making Cents International, final report, unpublished.

[16] Hossein, C.S. (2013) ‘Using a Black feminist framework: A study comparing bias against female entrepreneurs in Caribbean micro-banking’, Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice , 2 (1):51–70.

[17] Hossein, C.S. (2012) ‘The Politics of Microfinance: A Comparative Study of Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti’ (PhD dissertation), Toronto, ON, Canada: Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

[18] Lundy, P.P. (2010) ‘Filières agricoles à Gros-Morne: Diagnostic et analyse de la situation des producteurs agricoles’, Konsey Nasyonal Popile, unpublished.

[19] Maguire, R. (1997) ‘From outsiders to insiders: Grassroots leadership and political change’ in R. Maguire (ed.) Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects , Washington, DC: Brookings Institution:154–66.

[20] Mayoux, L. (1999) ‘Questioning virtuous spirals: Microfinance & women's empowerment in Africa’, Journal of International Development , 11 (1):957–84.

[21] Mintz, S. (1955) ‘The Jamaican internal marketing pattern: Some notes and hypotheses’, Social and Economic Studies , 4 (1):95–103.

[22] Mintz, S. (2010) Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[23] Mintz, S. (2011) ‘Pratik: Haitian Personal Economic Relationships’, Open Anthropology Cooperative Press:1–15. Retrieved on-line at: http://openanthcoop.net/press/2011/01/13/pratik/

[24] N'Zengou-Tayo, M.-J. (1998) ‘Fanm Se Poto Mitan: Haitian woman, the pillar of society’, Feminist Review: Rethinking Caribbean Difference , 59:118–42.

[25] Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (2009) Film; 60 minutes. Prod. Tet Ansanm. Accessed October, 5, 2015 from http://www.potomitan.net/.

[26] Shamsie, Y. (2006) ‘The economic dimension of peace-building in Haiti: Drawing on the past to reflect on the present’ in Y. Shamsie & A. Thompson (eds) Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State , Waterloo, ON, Canada: Wilfred Laurier Press:37–50.

[27] Transparency International (2014) ‘Corruption Perceptions Index of 2014’. Accessed August, 30, 2015 from http://www.transparency.org/country/#HTI

[28] Tucker, M. & W. Tellis (2005) ‘Microfinance institutions in transitions: Fonkoze in Haiti moves toward regulated banking status’, Journal of Microfinance 7 (2):101–25.

[29] Ulysse, G.A. (2007) Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-Making in Jamaica , Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.

[30] United Nations Development Programme. (2014) ‘UN Human Development Index of 2014’. Accessed August, 30, 2015 from http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/HTI.

[31] Wane, N., K. Deliovskey & E. Lawson (2002) Back to the Drawing Board: African Canadian Feminisms , Toronto, ON, Canada: Sumach.

[32] World Bank (2013) ‘Data’. Accessed October, 5, 2015 from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL.

[33] World Bank Group (2011) ‘Agriculture and rural development Latin America and Caribbean region. A Project Appraisal Document’ in Re-launching Agriculture: Strengthening Agriculture Public Services Project II (confidential, draft document).

[34] Zanotti, L. (2010) ‘Cacophonies of aid, failed state building and NGOs in Haiti: Setting the stage for disaster, envisioning the future’, Third World Quarterly , 31 (5):755–71.