Introduction -- "The independence so hardly won has been maintained": C.L.R. James and the U.S. occupation of Haiti -- Harlem and Haiti: West Indian radicals, international communism, and the occupation -- "A romance of the race, just down there by Panama": Claude McKay, Eric Walrond, and the exoticized Caribbean -- Gendering the occupation: the Universal Negro Improvement Association, black female playwrights, and Haiti -- Afroantillanismo, the marvelous real, and the occupation: Alejo Carpentier from Cuba to Paris to Haiti -- Haiti goes global: George Padmore and Pan-African anticolonialism -- Conclusion