Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar
May 13th, 2014
Creative Time Reports has published a series of original texts and illustrations exploring dark themes surrounding the sugar trade, to coincide with the opening of Kara Walker’s massive installation inside the abandoned Domino Sugar Factory. In her prose work The Price of Sugar, novelist Edwidge Danticat takes a look at labor conditions on Dominican sugar plantations, finding exploitation and trafficking of Haitian workers.
