1938: (Carter G.

1938: (Carter G. Woodson Reviews Comhaire-Sylvain Alongside Herskovits — Several Months After Comhaire-Sylvain Published in La Voix des Femmes African American Scholar Carter G. Woodson Reviewing Her Works Le Créole Haïtien Morphologie et Syntaxe 1936 and Les Contes Haïtiens Part I and II 1937 Alongside Anthropologist Melville Herskovits’s Life in a Haitian Valley 1937, Woodson Questioning the Quality of Herskovits’s Research Arguing That His “First Excursion” in Haiti Could Not Justify His Speaking Like One Having Authority): Several months after Comhaire-Sylvain published in La Voix des Femmes, African American scholar Carter G. Woodson reviewed her published works — Le Créole Haïtien, Morphologie et Syntaxe (1936) and Les Contes Haïtiens, Part I & II (1937) — alongside anthropologist Melville Herskovits’s Life in a Haitian Valley (1937). Woodson questioned the quality of Herskovits’s research, arguing that his first excursion in Haiti could not justify his speaking like one having authority — the critique was pointed: a white American anthropologist’s brief visit could not compete with the depth of knowledge that a Haitian woman scholar had built from the inside.