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From Dessalines to Duvalier: race, colour, and national independence in Haiti

By David Nicholls

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780813522401, 9780813522395
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
87 MB (90915888 bytes)
Pages
357\406
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 09:03:19

Description

In this lively, provocative, and well-documented history, David Nicholls discusses the impact of "color" on the political relationship between the black majority and the mulatto elite during almost two hundred years of Haitian history. The divisive factor impeding harmony in Haitian culture, argues Nicholls, has not been race, but color. Identifying themselves as non-white, blacks and mulattos acknowledge racial unity. But color divisions, reinforced by religious, regional, and class differences, have nonetheless prevented the two groups from achieving poltitical and ideological unity. Nicholls grounds this sophisticated analysis in great historical detail and engaging, witty prose. Students and general readers alike will delight in this insightful and informative history of Haiti.

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