The unexceptional case of Haiti : race and class privilege in postcolonial bourgeois society / Philippe-Richard Marius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marius, Philippe-Richard, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)

Caribbean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiti--History.

Haiti.

Haiti--Race relations.

Race relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Historical Context: Class, Race, and Nation

ch. Two Snapshot of a Western Place: Modern and Racialized, Unequal and Moral

ch. Three Noirisme and the Political Instrumentality of Blackness

ch. Four Class and Black-Nationalist Sociality

ch. Five Mulatto, Prejudice, and Other White Tidemarks of the Nation

ch. Six Unity in Colorism and Class Ideologiesv

ch. Seven Material Unity in Privilege

ch. Eight The Political Economy of Knowing White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Marius, Philippe-Richard. Unexceptional case of Haiti

ISBN:

9781496839077

1496839072

9781496839084

1496839080

OCLC:

1282000665

Publisher Number:

99990765077