Interview with Carl Juste

              Caribbean Diaspora Oral History Collection
Interview with Carl Juste
Miami, FL, February 9, 2016
Interview asm0344000019
Interviewed by Béatrice Colastin Skokan
Recorded by Javier Carrion
Outline by Reymond Sanchez
Length 01:15:06
Interview with Carl Juste, a Haitian-Cuban-American photojournalist who grew up in New York and moved to Miami with his family as a child. He is the son of Haitian-American community leader Viter Juste and is a graduate of the University of Miami’s School of Communication. He has traveled all over the world during his journalistic career. He settled in Miami and is a Pulitzer Prize winner working for the Miami Herald. In this interview, Carl discusses his upbringing with his very influential father, the burgeoning of the Little Haiti community, and his experience with other immigrants and racism. He also talks about his blended cultural identity with parents of Haitian and Cuban ancestry, his work for the Miami Herald, and the places he has travelled. Finally, he discusses his book project, Havana Haiti: Two cultures, One Community, and the creation of the Iris PhotoCollective with other journalists who share a concern over media depictions of communities of color.
This interview forms part of the Caribbean Diaspora Oral History Collection of the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections.
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INTERVIEW OUTLINE
- 00:00:13: Introduction
- 00:01:32: Let’s start with biographical information. Where you’re from, your childhood, and stuff like that
- 00:07:43: So all this happened with your dad before the civil rights movement?
- 00:12:10: You came from New York to Miami in a 7 car caravan?
- 00:19:54: So how was living in Miami with all the politics and immigrants going on around here?
- 00:21:30: So both your parents spoke Spanish fluently?
- 00:30:50: The wave of Haitian migration at that time was coming chiefly from the North right?
- 00:34:23: So tell us what HACAD was?
- 00:38:43: So when you go to these big cultural events, it is nothing new to you because of your dad?
- 00:45:55: Is your book that is coming out, about Cuba and Haiti, a meditation on the process that you have been going through? Tell me about the book.
- 00:48:45: Let’s talk about your photography. Especially since I know how Haitian parents are and how they want you to be an engineer and thinks like that.
- 00:53:37: I’m curious as to how you felt when you first went to Haiti as a journalist.
- 00:56:40: So besides all the poverty, there are places of beauty in Haiti?
- 01:04:02: Before we finish, I want you to talk about Iris PhotoCollective and what it does
- 01:08:53: Tell me about some of the classes that you host
- 01:16:06: END OF INTERVIEW