From Douglass to Duvalier : U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 / Millery Polyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polyné, Millery.

Series:

New World diasporas series.

New world diasporas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Haitians--History.

African Americans.

Pan-Americanism--History.

Pan-Americanism.

United States--Relations--Haiti.

United States.

Haiti--Relations--United States.

Haiti.

United States--Race relations.

Haiti--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'From Douglass to Duvalier' examines the creative and critical ways U.S. African Americans and Haitians engaged the idealized tenets of Pan Americanism - mutual cooperation, egalitarianism, and nonintervention between nation-states - in order to strengthen Haiti's social, economic, and political growth and stability.

Contents:

"The spirit of the age

establish[es] a sentiment of universal brotherhood": Haiti, "Santo Domingo" and Frederick Douglass at the intersection of the United States and Black Pan Americanism

"To combine the training of the head and the hands": the 1930 Robert R. Moton Education Commission in Haiti

"We cast in our lot with the policy of good neighborliness": Claude Barnett, Haiti and the business of race

"What happens in Haiti has repercussions which far transcend Haiti itself": Walter White, Haiti and the public relations campaign, 1947-1955

"To carry the dance of the people beyond": Jean-Leon Destine, Lavinia Williams and Danse Folklorique Haitienne

"The moody republic and the men in her life": Francois Duvalier, U.S. African Americans and Haitian exiles, 1957-1964.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3953-3

0-8130-4019-1

OCLC:

741493021