1937-1938: (The LFAS Hinges Its Political Practice to Comhaire-Sylvain’s Scholarship — the LFAS Picking Up Her Example and Hinging Its Political Practice to …

1937-1938: (The LFAS Hinges Its Political Practice to Comhaire-Sylvain’s Scholarship — the LFAS Picking Up Her Example and Hinging Its Political Practice to Comhaire-Sylvain’s Scholarship, Her Study of Peasant Life and Culture Becoming an Area of Study That Could Potentially Draw Women of Different Classes Closer to One Another): The LFAS picked up Comhaire-Sylvain’s example and hinged its political practice to her scholarship. Her study of peasant life and culture became an area of study that could potentially draw women of different classes closer to one another — the class divide that separated the LFAS leadership from the majority of Haitian women might be bridged not by charity or paternalism but by serious intellectual engagement with the knowledge systems of rural women.