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University of North Carolina Press The Haitians: A Decolonial History (Latin America in Translation)

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Product Description 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. Review [Casimir] re-theorizes slavery in Haiti by asking how Africans--living at the apex of European imperialism--were able to instigate a successful revolution and sustain a sovereign state. . . . He provides a sweeping historical narrative. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice ReviewsAsks us to reorient our perspectives away from the colonizers and the state in Haiti and instead to look to the Haitian people to evaluate the 'success' of the Haitian Revolution. . . . By centering the worldview of the rural population in the nineteenth century--the 'True Haitians'--Casimir shows us the possibilities of alternative forms of freedom that reject the legacies of colonialism and slavery.--Age of RevolutionsReinterprets Haiti's postcolonial history to resurface ways of being, knowing, and existing outside of dominant Western conceptual categories. . . . Anglophone readers are now able to access a capacious and new approach to Haitian--and global--history, written by a leading Haitian scholar.--Public Books About the Author Jean Casimir, who served as Haitian ambassador to the United States and as a United Nations official, is professor of humanities at the University of Haiti; his most recent book is Haiti et ses elites. Laurent Dubois is professor of romance studies and history at Duke University; his most recent book is Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean. Walter D. Mignolo is professor of anthropology at Duke University; his most recent book is On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis, coauthored with Catherine E. Walsh.

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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1469651548
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Americas > United States
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 October 2020
Listed Since: 28 March 2020

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