The 1938 Federal Theatre Project play Haiti has been repeatedly misattributed to the famous black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, however, white New York Times journalist William DuBois is the author of the work. The play’s contemporaries were aware that the white DuBois authored the work, however, at several points in the last few decades the mis-take has been made—and it appears to occur predominantly at the level of the archive.

Cuba and Haiti, as signs and as sites, were crucial to the imaginative restructuring of race and national identity in the US at the turn of the twentieth century. Between 1898 and 1940, the US occupied the two countries for extended periods of time, creating a transnational, intercultural contact zone that facilitated a large body of cultural production on the part of both black and white US Americans, including plays, operas, dance, music, films, and national spectacle.

In January 2006, I was the first U.S. artist to participate in the annual small format theatre festival sponsored by the Cuban government at El Mejunje in Sta. Clara Cuba. The set-up for the performance was that Miss-Translation was the only contestant in the 2006 Miss-Representations of the USA Beauty Pageant, held in Cuba. She participated in three categories: the swimsuit competition (her one-piece vintage leopard swimsuit ironizing the extended U.S.

Lynette Hunter and Dr. Shannon Rose Riley are co-editing a collection on performance as research that provides the first major document of the histories, methodoligies, and current practices in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. The collection theorizes the diverse contemporary approaches to performance as research, with sections that include key terms, histories, pedagogies, modes of assessment, methodologies, and current practices.

In 2006 I performed with Cuban drag queen Roxy Rojo at the fourteenth annual Festival Nacional de Pequeño Formato in Sta. Clara, Cuba. I played the role of Miss Translation USA, the only contestant in the Mis(s) Representations of the USA Beauty Pageant. In the performance, Miss Translation competes in the swimsuit competition, the interview with the pageant judge, performed by Roxy, and the talent category.

For the last couple of years I have conducted research in Cuba on a range of contemporary performance forms. This work has emerged from a related project that unpacks the meanings that Cuba and Haiti have acquired in the US national imaginary: from their strategic position as the first sites of US imperialism in the Caribbean, and their crucial role in the imaginative restructuring of race and national identity in the US at the turn of the twentieth century, to their marked vilification and erasure today through contemporary US political strategy and foreign policy.

(Work in process; accepted in a forthcoming collection on the work of Kathy Acker.) In 1939, just four years after the US withdrew from its nineteen-year-long military occupation of Haiti, Cole

(Unpublished manuscript written by John A. Ruhe and F. Byron Nahser.) This paper examines the link of global corruption to the cheating in academe. The problem, causes, and some solutions used in other academic environments are presented as well as sought from the audience. We propose that corruption is caused by both external and internal factors. We also will examine the role of some faculty in failing to stop cheating and the failure to practice integrity themselves that also contribute to the corruption problem.

We use the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares, years 1996, 2000, and 2004, which is a large household survey in Mexico, to assess the impact of the flows of remittances (mainly from the U.S.) to Mexico since the mid 1990s. The essay provides a household expenditure breakdown of these flows. There are several striking facts that surface from the observation of income, saving, age dependency and economic dependency between those households that receive remittances and those that do not.

I discuss the interplay between human behavior and nature's capital, in its capacity as source and sink (to absorb and assimilate by-product waste), that is, the interaction between the behavior of households and the source and sink functions played by natural capital. I look at the metaphors used in economics from the perspective of two main approaches, namely: environmental economics and ecological economics.