Haiti In Caribbean Context

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349177881

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Haiti in Caribbean Context by David Nicholls Pdf

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X000904165

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Haiti in Caribbean Context by David Nicholls Pdf

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0813522404

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From Dessalines to Duvalier by David Nicholls Pdf

"Rich in subject matter and eminently readable, this book is also a fine work of scholarship. The more than 1,200 footnotes are models of clarity and relevance; the bibliography and index seem scrupulously accurate. . . While each generation must rewrite its own history, as Nicholls remarks, no book on Haiti for a long time to come will properly be able to ignore the analysis he here provides." --Ethnic and Racial Studies "Step by step, Nicholls] guides us through the various historical time periods of Haitian political and national development, illuminating each one of them by a cogent and learned discussion of the main ideas and ideologies that accompanied them." --The Political Quarterly "Probably the best book written about Haitian history after its independence . . . a thorough, thoughtful, extremely well-researched work." --Handbook of Latin American Studies In this lively, provocative, and well-documented history, David Nicholls discusses the impact of "color" on political and social alliances during almost two hundred years of Haitian history. While consciousness of racial identity has been a powerful factor which, from the earliest days, has united Haitians in a determination to preserve their national independence, color has been a divisive factor, leading to the erosion of the stability of that independence. Nicholls grounds this sophisticated analysis in great historical detail and engaging, witty prose. Students and general readers alike will gain much from this insightful and informative history of Haiti. A new preface to this edition covers the last ten years in Haitiain history. David Nicholls is a major authority on Haiti, and was in the country as a newspaper correspondent during the 1987 election disaster. His other books include Haiti in the Caribbean Context: Ethnicity; The Pluralist State: and Deity and Domination.

Author : K. Quinn,P. Sutton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137312006

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Politics and Power in Haiti by K. Quinn,P. Sutton Pdf

Examining the political legacies of the Duvalier period and after, and revisiting the work of the late David Nicholls, Politics and Power in Haiti provides some of the keys to understanding the turbulent world of Haitian politics and the persistent challenges at home and from abroad which have distorted development.

Author : Philippe Zacaïr
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813043234

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Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean by Philippe Zacaïr Pdf

During the past ten years, political debates, legal disputes, and rising violence associated with the presence of Haitian migrants have flared up throughout the Caribbean basin in such places as Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. The contributors to this volume explore the common thread of prejudice against the Haitian diaspora as well as its potential role in the construction of national narratives from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. These essays, written by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and Francophone studies scholars, examine how Haitians interact as an immigrant group with other parts of the Caribbean as well as how they are perceived and treated, particularly in terms of ethnicity and race, in their migration experience in the broader Caribbean. By discussing the prevalence of anti-Haitianism throughout the region alongside the challenges Haitians face as immigrants, this volume completes the global view of the Haitian diaspora saga.

Author : Eduardo Grüner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509535491

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The Haitian Revolution by Eduardo Grüner Pdf

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was indispensable to the production of wealth. Against the background of this expanding circulation of capital and slave labor, the first revolution in Latin America took place: the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791 and culminated with Haiti’s declaration of independence in 1804. Taking the Haitian Revolution as a paradigmatic case, Grüner shows that modernity is not a linear evolution from the center to the periphery but, rather, a co-production developed in the context of highly unequal power relations, where extreme forms of conquest and exploitation were an indispensable part of capital accumulation. He also shows that the Haitian Revolution opened up a path to a different kind of modernity, or “counter-modernity,” a path along which Latin America and the Caribbean have traveled ever since. A key work of critical theory from a Latin American perspective, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical and cultural theory and of Latin America, as well as anyone concerned with the global impact of capitalism, colonialism, and race.

Author : Jean Casimir
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469660493

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The Haitians by Jean Casimir Pdf

In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915. The Haitians also critically retheorizes the very nature of slavery, colonialism, and sovereignty. Here, Casimir centers the perspectives of Haiti's moun andeyo—the largely African-descended rural peasantry. Asking how these systematically marginalized and silenced people survived in the face of almost complete political disenfranchisement, Casimir identifies what he calls a counter-plantation system. Derived from Caribbean political and cultural practices, the counter-plantation encompassed consistent reliance on small-scale landholding. Casimir shows how lakou, small plots of land often inhabited by generations of the same family, were and continue to be sites of resistance even in the face of structural disadvantages originating in colonial times, some of which continue to be maintained by the Haitian government with support from outside powers.

Author : Vanessa K. Valdés
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438481050

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Racialized Visions by Vanessa K. Valdés Pdf

As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exchanges between their writers, artists, and thinkers. Centering Haiti in this conversation also makes explicit the role that race—and, more specifically, anti-blackness—has played both in the region and in academic studies of it. Following the Revolution and Independence in 1804, Haiti was conflated with blackness. Spanish colonial powers used racist representations of Haiti to threaten their holdings in the Atlantic Ocean. In the years since, white elites in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico upheld Haiti as a symbol of barbarism and savagery. Racialized Visions powerfully refutes this symbolism. Across twelve essays, contributors demonstrate how cultural producers in these countries have resignified Haiti to mean liberation. An introduction and conclusion by the editor, Vanessa K. Valdés, as well as foreword by Myriam J. A. Chancy, provide valuable historical context and an overview of Afro-Latinx studies and its futures.

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036047947

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Economic Dependence and Political Autonomy by David Nicholls Pdf

Author : James Graham Leyburn
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1980-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X000906202

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The Haitian People by James Graham Leyburn Pdf

Historical study of society and social class in Haiti - considers the role of France in colonialism, and the role of USA in military occupation; discusses the influence of the Catholic Church and of traditional Vodun religion; examines social structure, marriage customs, living conditions, health, political leadership, overpopulation, problems of the Elite, the use of the Creole language, etc. Bibliography.

Author : J. Michael Dash
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0313360995

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Culture and Customs of Haiti by J. Michael Dash Pdf

Provides an overview of the history and culture of Haiti, and includes discussion of the country's religion, people and society, social customs, media and cinema, literature and language, performing arts, and visual arts and architecture.

Author : Carla Calargé,Raphael Dalleo,Luis Duno-Gottberg,Clevis Headley
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617037580

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Haiti and the Americas by Carla Calargé,Raphael Dalleo,Luis Duno-Gottberg,Clevis Headley Pdf

Haiti has long played a significant role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism, or is its main lesson one of failure? Haiti and the Americas brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize the ways that Haiti has been represented over time, and to look at Haiti's own cultural expressions in order to think about alternative ways of imagining its culture and history. Thinking about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes. Haiti is often portrayed as the region's nadir of poverty, of political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation, unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness that’s in need of more powerful neighbors to take control. Essayists in Haiti and the Americas present a fuller picture developing approaches that can account for the complexity of Haitian history and culture.

Author : Arthur K. Spears,Carole M. Berotte Joseph
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Creole dialects, French
ISBN : 9780739172216

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The Haitian Creole Language by Arthur K. Spears,Carole M. Berotte Joseph Pdf

The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature, and social interaction. Although spoken by virtually all Haitians, Creole was recognized as the co-official language of Haiti only a little over twenty years ago. The Haitian Creole Language provides essential information for professionals, other service providers, and Creole speakers who are interested in furthering the use of Creole in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Increased language competencies would greatly promote the education of Creole speakers and their participation in the social and political life of their countries of residence. This book is an indispensable tool for those seeking knowledge about the centrality of language in the affairs of Haiti, its people, and its diaspora.

Author : Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853457565

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Haiti: State Against Nation by Michel-Rolph Trouillot Pdf

In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti's hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and political, that faces this small Caribbean nation did not begin with the dictatorship, and is far from being solved, despite its departure from the scene. In this fascinating study, Haitian-born Michel-Rolph Trouillot examines the mechanisms through which the Duvaliers ruthlessly won and then held onto power for twenty-nine years. Trouillot's theoretical discussion focuses on the contradictory nature of the peripheral state, analyzing its relative autonomy as a manifestation of the growing disjuncture between state and nation. He discusses in detail two key characteristics of such regimes: the need for a rhetoric of national unity coupled with unbridled violence. At the same time, he traces the current crisis from its roots in the nineteenth-century marginalization of the peasantry through the U.S. occupation from 1915 to 1934 and into the present. He ends with a discussion of the post-Duvalier period, which, far from seeing the restoration of civilian-led democracy, has been a period of increasing violence and economic decline.

Author : Philippe Girard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230106611

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Haiti by Philippe Girard Pdf

"In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into Haiti's complex and layered past, showing that its current state as the poorest country in the western hemisphere was not inevitable. This highly readable and accessible history takes the reader back two hundred years to a time when Haiti was so prosperous it was known as the Pearl of the Antilles. Haiti was the only country in the Americas to pull off a successful slave revolution, yet today its survival is completely dependent on foreign aid. As all eyes turn to watch what happens to Haiti, author Girard provides the necessary context for envisioning its future--including a detailed account of the quake's consequences, an assessment of the benefit and cost of an American intervention, and commentary on what Haiti must do to rebuild for a brighter future"--