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{"value"=>"20831", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 664", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b143036063", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1920-1994", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1994"}
{"value"=>"1986-1994", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1986/1994"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Amy Wilentz Haiti material"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.42 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
{"value"=>"Some material in Creole and French."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Wilentz, Amy", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"com"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Amy Wilentz is the author of <span class=\"title\">Farewell Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti</span> (2013), <span class=\"title\">The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier</span> (1990), <span class=\"title\">Martyrs' Crossing</span> (2000), and <span class=\"title\">I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger</span> (2006). She is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. In 1990, she was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction for <span class=\"title\">The Rainy Season</span>. She won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir for <span class=\"title\">Farewell, Fred Voodoo</span>, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in general nonfiction in 2020. Wilentz is a MacDowell fellow, the former Jerusalem correspondent for <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>, and a long-time contributing editor at <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span>. She is also a contributing editor at <span class=\"title\">The Markaz Review</span>, an online publication about Middle Eastern culture, politics, diaspora, and art. She has written for <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Washington Post</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Los Angeles Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">Politico</span>, <span class=\"title\">The London Review of Books</span>, the <span class=\"title\">Los Angeles Review of Books</span>, and many other publications. She teaches in the Literary Journalism program at the University of California at Irvine.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists of research material on Haitian politics, the treatment of Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic, and U.S. foreign policy towards Haiti; this material was compiled for the writing of <span class=\"title\">The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier</span>r, published in 1990. Also included are printed matter of Haitian grassroots organizations written in Creole, and several addresses by U.S. Ambassador Brunson McKinley.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Amy Wilentz, February 1999.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division: books.</p> <p>Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Andre Elizee, August 1999.</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"id"=>"aspace_f79c24e52d924d906a1f697435f3ab5a", "value"=>"<p>Amy Wilentz. \"About the Author.\" Accessed April 14, 2022, https://amywilentz.com/author-biography/.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2022 April 14"}
- date_start
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1920
- keydate
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1920
- date_end
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1994
- date_inclusive_start
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1920
- date_inclusive_end
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1994
- date_bulk_start
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1986
- date_bulk_end
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1994
- extent_statement
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0.42 linear feet (1 box)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Amy Wilentz Haiti material, Sc MG 664, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Amy Wilentz is the author of <span class=\"title\">Farewell Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti</span> (2013), <span class=\"title\">The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier</span> (1990), <span class=\"title\">Martyrs' Crossing</span> (2000), and <span class=\"title\">I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger</span> (2006). She is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. In 1990, she was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction for <span class=\"title\">The Rainy Season</span>. She won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir for <span class=\"title\">Farewell, Fred Voodoo</span>, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in general nonfiction in 2020. Wilentz is a MacDowell fellow, the former Jerusalem correspondent for <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>, and a long-time contributing editor at <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span>. She is also a contributing editor at <span class=\"title\">The Markaz Review</span>, an online publication about Middle Eastern culture, politics, diaspora, and art. She has written for <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Washington Post</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Los Angeles Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">Politico</span>, <span class=\"title\">The London Review of Books</span>, the <span class=\"title\">Los Angeles Review of Books</span>, and many other publications. She teaches in the Literary Journalism program at the University of California at Irvine. This collection consists of research material on Haitian politics, the treatment of Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic, and U.S. foreign policy towards Haiti; this material was compiled for the writing of <span class=\"title\">The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier</span>r, published in 1990. Also included are printed matter of Haitian grassroots organizations written in Creole, and several addresses by U.S. Ambassador Brunson McKinley.", "generated"=>true}