'Voodoo' has come to represent something evil when it appears in popular culture. 'Black magic', witchcraft – it's always portrayed as something to be feared. But in reality, Vodou, as it's correctly written, is an official religion practised by millions of people. Why has it been vilified for so long? Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks back over the history of Haitan Vodou and Louisiana Voodoo, which is a separate belief system altogether, and its portrayal to find an answer

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Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
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Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory
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Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
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Why Can’t Black Witches Get Some Respect in Popular Culture?
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The Appropriation of Magic: How White People Demonised Voodoo
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200 Years of Forgetting: Hushing up the Haitian Revolution
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The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics
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Yorùbá Influences on Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo
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From 'Voodooism' to 'Vodou': Changing a US Library of Congress Subject Heading
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Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo: Sin, Fraud, Entertainment, and Religion
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