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Book Monograph Republic of Haiti Compiled 1932

Download or read book Monograph Republic of Haiti Compiled 1932 written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1932* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monograph of Haiti Giving General Data about the Island and Republic of Haiti

Download or read book Monograph of Haiti Giving General Data about the Island and Republic of Haiti written by Charles Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monograph of Haiti

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  • Author : Charles Stephen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 41 pages

Download or read book Monograph of Haiti written by Charles Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Monograph Detailing the Physical   Financial Resources of the Republic of Haiti

Download or read book A Monograph Detailing the Physical Financial Resources of the Republic of Haiti written by United Haiti corporation and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unexceptional Case of Haiti

Download or read book The Unexceptional Case of Haiti written by Philippe-Richard Marius and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philippe-Richard Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti’s Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti’s Founders indeed first defeated native Africans’ armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation. Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country’s global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm.

Book Haiti  State Against Nation

Download or read book Haiti State Against Nation written by Michel-Rolph Trouillot and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Haitians

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  • Author : Jean Casimir
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2020-09-29
  • ISBN : 1469660490
  • Pages : 453 pages

Download or read book The Haitians written by Jean Casimir and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Haiti

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  • Author : Robert Fatton
  • Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781626370364
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Haiti written by Robert Fatton and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inability of the Haitian state to deal with the devastation of the January 2010 earthquake brought into sharp focus Haiti¿s desperate social and economic conditions¿and raised perplexing questions. What accounts for the country¿s continuing predicament? Why have repeated attempts at democratic governance failed so abysmally? And what role has the international community played? Addressing these questions, Robert Fatton focuses on Haiti¿s long history of predatory rule and also introduces the concept of the outer periphery to explore the impact of a world economy shaped by neoliberal polices. The result is an insightful analysis of contemporary Haitian politics and society with significant implications for the broader study of comparative politics.

Book Building a More Resilient Haitian State

Download or read book Building a More Resilient Haitian State written by Keith Crane and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope for a prosperous and peaceful future for Haiti lies in building a more effective, resilient state. This report identifies the main challenges to more capable governance, evaluates existing plans for improving the delivery of public services, and proposes a realistic set of critical actions. The proposed state-building priorities merit the greatest degree of Haiti's and international donors' policy attention and financial commitment.

Book Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World

Download or read book Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World written by Julia Gaffield and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the world's only successful slave revolution. Julia Gaffield, however, anchors a fresh vision of Haiti's first tentative years of independence to its relationships with other nations and empires and reveals the surprising limits of the country's supposed isolation. Gaffield frames Haitian independence as both a practical and an intellectual challenge to powerful ideologies of racial hierarchy and slavery, national sovereignty, and trade practice. Yet that very independence offered a new arena in which imperial powers competed for advantages with respect to military strategy, economic expansion, and international law. In dealing with such concerns, foreign governments, merchants, abolitionists, and others provided openings that were seized by early Haitian leaders who were eager to negotiate new economic and political relationships. Although full political acceptance was slow to come, economic recognition was extended by degrees to Haiti--and this had diplomatic implications. Gaffield's account of Haitian history highlights how this layered recognition sustained Haitian independence.

Book Kanaval

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Soul Jazz Records
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Kanaval written by and published by Soul Jazz Records. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voudou, sex, death and revolution are key ingredients in the stunning themes and visual imagery of the street theatre Kanaval of Jacmel, Haiti, where the men drag up, black up, wear cow horns, throw lassos and put snakes in their mouths! Light years away from the government sponsored, tourist-inspired floats of carnival throughout the world, this event is a vessel for Haitian peasants to discuss the local politics of Haiti, talk about the slave revolt that gave birth to Haiti, the first Black Republic, to commune with ancestors both personal and historical and much more. The book is a fascinating combination of photography, cultural and historical analysis and background, anthropology and also includes a set of oral histories by participants in this unique event.

Book Haiti

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  • Author : Bruce Gilden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9788477823988
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Haiti written by Bruce Gilden and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Assessment of Conventional and Special Operations Forces Integration in Haiti

Download or read book An Assessment of Conventional and Special Operations Forces Integration in Haiti written by Robert C. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hegel  Haiti  and Universal History

Download or read book Hegel Haiti and Universal History written by Susan F. Buck-Morss and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a "new humanism," one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.

Book Kehinde Wiley

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  • Author : M. Cynthia Oliver
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9780991488926
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Kehinde Wiley written by M. Cynthia Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in the World Stage series of portraits by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), this volume presents 13 new paintings, the result of the artist's trip to Haiti--a nation that is often presented as a place of chronic poverty, corruption and deprivation. In Haiti Wiley actively went looking for beauty, staging pageants to cast his portrait subjects and advertising with open calls on the radio and posters put up in the streets of Jacmel, Jalouise and Port-au-Prince. Wiley worked within the tradition of pageant culture native to the Caribbean but also subverted it, choosing his winners at random. The paintings draw on the artistic traditions of France and Spain (the colonial rulers of Haiti before the Haitian Revolution), as well as Haiti's varied religious traditions and local crafts, creating a composite portrait of contemporary Haiti through its people, history and culture.

Book Albert Desmangles

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  • Author : Albert Desmangles
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-04-18
  • ISBN : 9781499189599
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Albert Desmangles written by Albert Desmangles and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains updated content.Born in Port-au-Prince on May 31, 1957. Albert Desmangles completed primary school at the Petit Séminaire Collège Saint-Martial and his higher education at the Canadian Haitian College. From early childhood, he expresses hi liking for art and, at the age of six, starts to draw faces with his fingers in the dirt of the school tiles. At the secondary school, Brother Henry teaches him the colors, drawing, linear perspective, and initiates him into the technique of gouache. During several years he participates in the Plastic Arts Circle of the College and takes part in several exhibitions. In 1975, he receives an award at a drawing competitive show organized by the Haitian German cultural association. In 1978, following his bookkeeping studies, he started to work but very quickly understands that he did not want to spend his life behind an office desk but in front of an easel. He gives up everything to devote himself to art. In 1979-1980, he enters the workshops of his uncle, the sculptor Paul Desmangles who introduce him to sculpture. Then he attends courses of industrial drawing at the Centre de Formation Professionnelle d'Haïti (a vocational school). During this same period, he is an actor of the company "Jeune Théatre", the National Theatre and the Gerard Resil's troupe. Thereafter, he becomes a member of the musical group kata.

Book The Black Republic

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  • Author : Brandon R. Byrd
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-10-11
  • ISBN : 0812296540
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Black Republic written by Brandon R. Byrd and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds—politicians, journalists, ministers, writers, educators, artists, and diplomats—identified new and urgent connections with Haiti, a nation long understood as an example of black self-determination. They celebrated not only its diplomatic recognition by the United States but also the renewed relevance of the Haitian Revolution. While a number of African American leaders defended the sovereignty of a black republic whose fate they saw as intertwined with their own, others expressed concern over Haiti's fitness as a model black republic, scrutinizing whether the nation truly reflected the "civilized" progress of the black race. Influenced by the imperialist rhetoric of their day, many African Americans across the political spectrum espoused a politics of racial uplift, taking responsibility for the "improvement" of Haitian education, politics, culture, and society. They considered Haiti an uncertain experiment in black self-governance: it might succeed and vindicate the capabilities of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination or it might fail and condemn the black diasporic population to second-class status for the foreseeable future. When the United States military occupied Haiti in 1915, it created a crisis for W. E. B. Du Bois and other black activists and intellectuals who had long grappled with the meaning of Haitian independence. The resulting demand for and idea of a liberated Haiti became a cornerstone of the anticapitalist, anticolonial, and antiracist radical black internationalism that flourished between World War I and World War II. Spanning the Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras, The Black Republic recovers a crucial and overlooked chapter of African American internationalism and political thought.