The uses of haiti paul farmer noam chomsky jonathan kozol on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers the uses of haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable mattersa uncomfortable that is for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. The uses of haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters uncomfortable that is for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny it tells the truth about what has been happening in haiti and the us role in its bitter fate noam chomsky from the . The uses of haiti by paul farmer introduction by noam chomsky common courage press monroe maine 1994 namely that this international use of haiti is the dominant cause of her history and since the united states is the predominant player in this story that the us is the main force behind haitian history. Uses of haiti is a combination of emotion and academic rigor which is unsettling to most readers used to one or the other but the emotion a normal and human response to 20 years of treating haitis sick and rigor the author is an md and a phd in anthropologycomplement each other if the coexistence is sometimes awkward. The uses of haiti paul farmer author farmer author jonathan kozol he traces haitis long standing injustice from the sufferings of the 18th century slave economy and the post revolution