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De l'égalité des races humaines

Autor: Anténor Firmin

Número de Páginas: 488

Depuis Bacon, dont le traité De augmentatis et dignitate scientiarum est un premier essai de systématisation et de classification des sciences, l’esprit humain toujours soucieux de régulariser ses conquêtes, ne cesse de diriger ses efforts vers une ordonnance logique des différentes branches de la connaissance, afin d’en former un tout harmonique, où soient méthodiquement indiqués les degrés successifs de cette grande échelle lumineuse qui, comme dans la vision de Jacob, va de la terre au ciel, et de ses rayons embrasse l’univers et l’homme, l’espace et la pensée. Fruit d’une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

Comprendre Anténor Firmin, une inspiration pour le XXIe siècle

Autor: Leslie Jean-robert Péan

Número de Páginas: 0

L'anniversaire ou éloge de Joseph-Anténor Firmin, 19 septembre 1912

Autor: Démétrius André

Número de Páginas: 90

Repensando el siglo XIX desde América Latina y Francia

Autor: Arturo Andrés Roig , Yamandú Acosta

Número de Páginas: 828

REPARACIONES

Autor: Colectivo,

Número de Páginas: 277

LIBRO COLECTIVO INTERNACIONAL. El combate que ha iniciado el MIR y muchos otros debe, ahora, elevarse, intensificarse y federarse a nivel internacional. Por esta razón, le ha parecido importante al MIR, en asociación con Diasporas Noires Editions, coordinar y producir esta obra colectiva internacional, reflejando tantas voces como fuera posible, explorando todas las vías conocidas sobre el tema de la reparación y, sobre todo, realizando una obra pedagógica que trata de todas las formas que cubre: reparaciones culturales, psicológicas, espirituales, económicas, políticas ... SOBRE LOS AUTORES MIR Movimiento Internacional por las Reparaciones (por orden de aparición de las contribuciones) : - Garcin Malsa - Martinica. Presidente del MIR Internacional; - Claudette Duhamel - Martinica. Abogada y vice-presidente del MIR; - Alain Manville - Martinica. Abogado y miembro del MIR; - Prof. Coovi Rekhimré - Benín. Égiptólogo, Filósofo e Historiador. Especialista de la Trata Negrera europea; - Rodolphe Solbiac - Martinica. Profesor titular universitario habilitado para dirigir investigaciones científicas . Estudios anglófonos caribeños – Universidad de Las Antillas; - Rosa...

Uha - Aspects d’une philosophie du Retour

Autor: Mahougnon Sinsin

Número de Páginas: 583

Le but de cette étude n’est point d’élaborer un traité systématique de la Philosophie du Retour, mais de montrer, à travers les œuvres de certains chercheurs africains, comment elle émerge et se constitue comme une topique, une épistémologie, dignes d’intérêt. L’ensemble des œuvres sur lesquelles nous nous sommes penché forment une sorte de "Mosaïque du Retour" qui laisse voir des traits variés d’une Pensée des genèses orientée vers un projet de refondation: la Renaissance Africaine. Les thématiques abordées se rapportent à la quasi-totalité des champs philosophiques : la théorie de la connaissance, l’ontologie, la cosmologie, l’anthropologie, la logique, l’éthique, l’esthétique, la théologie, la philosophie politique et sociale. Avec cette variation des thèmes, nous avons voulu apprécier la pertinence de la "Philosophie Africaine Fondamentale" sous plusieurs angles. C’est la Visée première de cette Philosophie qui la rend pertinente. Il nous semble que cette Visée s’identifie à l’Idéal de la Maȃt. Notre souhait, c’est que l’Afrique contemporaine renoue avec cette sève vivifiante de la Pensée Maâtique dans tous les...

The Equality of the Human Races

Autor: Joseph-anténor Firmin

Número de Páginas: 540

Rediscovering an early scientific challenge to racism This is the first paperback edition of the only English-language translation of the Haitian scholar Anténor Firmin's The Equality of the Human Races, a foundational text in critical anthropology first published in 1885 when anthropology was just emerging as a specialized field of study. Marginalized for its "radical" position that the human races were equal, Firmin's lucid and persuasive treatise was decades ahead of its time. Arguing that the equality of the races could be demonstrated through a positivist scientific approach, Firmin challenged racist writings and the dominant views of the day. Translated by Asselin Charles and framed by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban's substantial introduction, this rediscovered text is an important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies.

Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities

Autor: Celucien L. Joseph , Paul C. Mocombe

Número de Páginas: 254

Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmin’s writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernity’s imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intellectual evolution of the Aryan-White race. Firmin articulated an alternative way to study global historical trajectories, the political life, human societies and interactions, and the diplomatic relations and dynamics between the nations and the races. Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Anténor Firmin. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century’s culture of...

Naming Race, Naming Racisms

Autor: Jonathan Judaken

Número de Páginas: 257

Eschewing social scientific approaches, which tend to examine race and racism in terms of quasi-static ideal types, this book surveys differing historical contexts from the era of scientific racism in the nineteenth-century to the post-racial racism of the post 9/11 period, and from Europe to the United States, in order to understand how racism has been articulated in differing situations. It is distinguished by the attention it pays to the on-going power of racial discourse in the contemporary period as a legitimating factor in oppression. It exemplifies methodological openness, combining the work of historians, philosophers, religious scholars, and literary critics, and includes differing theoretical models in pursuing a critical approach to race: cultural studies; trauma theory and psychoanalysis; critical theory and consideration of the "new racism"; and postcolonialism and the literature on globalization. It brings together the work of leading academics with younger practitioners and is capped off by an interview with world-renowned intellectual Cornel West on black intellectuals in America. This book was previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

Toussaint Louverture: un martyr de la Liberté

Autor: Joseph Allen Prince

Número de Páginas: 194

"Pourquoi t'ai-je pleurée Et à quoi te serviront mes larmes Mes dix années de lutte près de toi S'égarent Elles brûlent comme les arbres des champs Pourquoi t'ai-je pleurée Et à quoi te serviront mes larmes Mes passions vertes pour toi Tremblent Et je pleure la douleur qu'elles me laissent Pourquoi donc t'ai-je pleurée Et à quoi te serviront mes larmes Ma vie entière saturée de plaisirs Est à plaindre" Dans ce deuxième volet associant poèmes, extraits d'essais et de discours, Joseph Allen Prince se joint à une quinzaine d'auteurs pour rendre hommage à Toussaint Louverture, cet homme extraordinaire à la stature plus que jamais héroïque. L'occasion de rendre compte de l'héritage aussi riche que varié d'une figure incontournable, dont l'influence exhale sans flétrir depuis deux siècles.

Anywhere But Here

Autor: Kendahl Radcliffe , Jennifer Scott , Anja Werner

Número de Páginas: 387

Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberli Gant, Danielle Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard, John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward L. Robinson Jr., Jennifer Scott, and Anja Werner Anywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on the cross-cultural experiences of intellectuals of African descent since the eighteenth century. The book embraces historian Paul Gilroy's prominent thesis in The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness and posits arguments beyond The Black Atlantic's traditional organization and symbolism. Contributions are arranged into three sections that highlight the motivations and characteristics connecting a certain set of agents, thinkers, and intellectuals: the first, Re-ordering Worldviews: Rebellious Thinkers, Poets, Writers, and Political Architects; the second, Crafting Connections: Strategic and Ideological Alliances; and the third, Cultural Mastery in Foreign Spaces: Evolving Visions of Home and Identity. These essays expand categories and suggest patterns at play that have united individuals and communities across the African diaspora. They highlight the stories of people who, from...

The Haitian drama, history taking the wrong turn

Autor: Antoine Archange Raphael

Número de Páginas: 422

The socio-historical explanation of Haiti predicament shows a nation plagued by a monstrous psychological repression stemming from its colonial heritage to such a par that the commotions of its political reality seem to be equal to symptoms of generalized neurosis. A politico-socio-economic philosophy may be essential to pull this country from standstill and take it along the road of self-determination

Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

Autor: Tom Hawkins

Número de Páginas: 300

This is the first book to study how Haitian authors – from independence in 1804 to the modern Haitian diaspora – have adapted Greco-Roman material and harnessed it to Haiti’s legacy as the world’s first anti-colonial nation-state. In nine chronologically organized chapters built around individual Haitian authors, Hawkins takes readers on a journey through one strand of Haitian literary history that draws on material from ancient Greece and Rome. This cross-disciplinary exploration is composed in a way that invites all readers to discover a rich and exciting cultural exchange that foregrounds the variety of ways that Haitian authors have ‘hacked classical forms’ as part of their creative process. Students of ancient Mediterranean cultures will learn about a branch of the Greco-Roman legacy that has never been deeply explored. Experts in Caribbean culture will find a robust register of Haitian literature that will enrich familiar texts. And those interested in anti-colonial movements will encounter a host of examples of artists creatively engaging with literary monuments from the past in ways that always keep the Haitian experience in central focus. Written in a broadly...

Libres après les abolitions ?

Autor: Rogers Dominique , Lesueur Boris

Número de Páginas: 220

Libres après les abolitions ? La question peut surprendre. Les abolitions du XIXe siècle ont été toujours considérées comme une rupture majeure dans l’histoire des esclavages atlantiques. L’émergence contemporaine de revendications mémorielles, souvent impulsées par les descendants des populations autrefois esclavisées, suggère, au contraire, l’existence d’un passé « qui ne passe pas ». Au-delà d’une définition juridique, l’esclavage a signifié dominations, violences extrêmes et déconsidérations multiformes. Après les abolitions, des processus ethnoculturels de racialisation comme les structures de travail ont perduré, voire se sont renforcés, et ont été complétés par d’autres facteurs d’exclusion socio-économique. Cet ouvrage tente d’explorer les barrières dressées pour empêcher la totale émancipation des nouveaux libres et de leurs descendants, ainsi que les stratégies complexes d’adaptation que ces derniers ont mises en oeuvre pour obtenir, sinon une assimilation, du moins une intégration économique et possiblement citoyenne, à égalité. La dizaine de contributions réunies s’inscrit dans une perspective comparative et...

Creolizing Rousseau

Autor: Jane Anna Gordon , Neil Roberts

Número de Páginas: 317

In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had “such tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity” within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance of his work in Caribbean thought and politics. This volume illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories. Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization and the full range of Rousseau’s legacies not only in contemporary Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone colonies, territories, and larger ...

Arthur de Gobineau aux tropiques

Autor: Mackendy Souverain

Número de Páginas: 202

Dans le processus de formulation d'un discours national, deux tendances, une pseudo-scientifique et l'autre militante-humanitaire, se sont affrontées. En fait, la percée croissante des sciences naturelles et techniques, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle, donna à la pensée raciale un caractère nettement déterministe, ce qui allait à l'encontre des arguments et des luttes menées par les abolitionnistes et de certaines cercles inspirées par l'idéal révolutionnaire de la liberté. Pour les deux jeunes nations, cela représentait un défi, mais de façon diverse. Si l'Haïti républicain s'engagea résolument – un cas rare à l'époque – contre une discrimination généralisée et supposément naturelle des femmes et des hommes noirs, le Brésil impérial préserva la pratique esclavagiste, même ayant du mal à justifier l'inégalité entre les personnes devant un monde qui se voulait libéral.

Transnational Hispaniola

Autor: April J. Mayes , Kiran C. Jayaram

Número de Páginas: 195

In addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations’ relationship than their perceived antagonism. Rejecting dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between the two sides of the island, contributors to this volume highlight the connections and commonalities that extend across the border, mapping new directions in Haitianist and Dominicanist scholarship. Exploring a variety of topics including European colonialism, migration, citizenship, sex tourism, music, literature, political economy, and art, contributors demonstrate that alternate views of Haitian and Dominican history and identity have existed long before the present day. From a moving section on passport petitions that reveals the familial, friendship, and communal networks across Hispaniola in the nineteenth century to a discussion of the shared music traditions that unite the island today, this volume speaks of an island and people bound together in a myriad of ways. Complete with reflections and advice on teaching a transnational approach to...

De l'egalité des races humaines (anthropologie positive)

Autor: Joseph-anténor Firmin

Número de Páginas: 700

Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion

Autor: Celucien L. Joseph

Número de Páginas: 216

In Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion, Celucien Joseph provides a fresh and careful reexamination of Haiti's intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and writings of five prominent thinkers and public intellectuals: Toussaint Louverture, Joseph Antenor Firmin, Jacques Roumain, Dantes Bellegarde, and Jean Price-Mars. The book articulates a twofold argument. First of all, Haiti has produced a strong intellectual tradition from the revolutionary era to the postcolonial present, and that Haitian thought is not homogeneous and monolithic. Joseph puts forth the idea that the general interweaving themes of rhetoric, the race concept, race vindication, universal emancipation, religious pluralism, secular humanism, the particular and the universal, and cosmopolitanism are representative of Haiti's intellectual tradition. Secondly, the book also contends that Haitian intellectuals have produced a religious discourse in the twentieth century that could be phrased religious metissage. The religious ideas of these thinkers have been shaped by various forces, ideologies, religious traditions, and philosophical schools. In the same way, the religious experience of the Haitian...

France and the Americas

Autor: Bill Marshall

Número de Páginas: 1334

A unique, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the impacts that French and American politics, foreign policy, and culture have had on shaping each country's identity. From 17th-century fur traders in Canada to 21st-century peacekeepers in Haiti, from France's decisive role in the Revolutionary War leading to the creation of the United States to recent disagreements over Iraq, France and the Americas charts the history of the inextricable links between France and the nations of the Americas. This comprehensive survey features an incisive introduction and a chronology of key events, spanning 400 years of France's transatlantic relations. Students of many disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this comprehensive survey, which traces the common themes of both French policy, language, and influence throughout the Americas and the wide-ranging transatlantic influences on contemporary France.

Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century

Autor: Peter Adamson , Chike Jeffers

Número de Páginas: 525

In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy. Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora. The story starts at the very beginning by asking what it would mean to engage philosophically with evidence left by prehistoric peoples of Africa, and proceeds to discuss the philosophical traditions of ancient Egypt, late ancient and early modern Ethopia, and Islamic philosophy in West Africa. A number of chapters then explore the idea of philosophy in African oral traditions, considering the methodological debates that have raged between African philosophers like John Mbiti, Paulin Hountondji, and Henry Odera Oruka. Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers also consider philosophical responses to the situation brought about by the transatlantic slave trade and the early colonization of Africa. Starting from...

La crítica en el margen

Autor: Gandarilla Salgado, José Guadalupe

Número de Páginas: 423

Para mantener la lógica de su sistema social y económico, la Modernidad alimenta una zona oscura, una sombra que hace posible la imposición de modelos, de instituciones y conceptos; es decir, reproduce la colonialidad. Desde diferentes puntos de análisis, los autores aquí reunidos exigen la recuperación de la pluralidad; hacen del margen –es decir, de todo aquello que fue marginado, relegado– un observatorio para cuestionar el autoproclamado «centro». En esta dirección, el conocimiento por el que se pronuncia el presente libro efectúa un deslinde con respecto del actual estado de las cosas; no sólo de ciertos planteamientos, sino de aquello que comprende lo social. Conviven en él visiones que dan vuelta a los mapas, que invierten la geografía del conocimiento para enfrentar los problemas desde el Sur y reposicionar, de manera urgente, la Independencia de Haití –la primera en América–, la négritude o el feminismo decolonial, entre otros, para suscitar una lectura distinta de la genealogía y del pensamiento latinoamericano.

Reimagining the Caribbean

Autor: Valérie K. Orlando , Sandra Cypess

Número de Páginas: 213

This volume brings together scholars working in different languages—Creole, French, English, Spanish—and modes of cultural production—literature, art, film, music—to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom. Essays focus on discussing how best to cross languages, histories, and modes of discourse. Instead of relying on available paradigms that depend on Western ways of thinking, the essays recommend methods to develop a pan-Caribbean perspective in relation to notions of the self, uses of language, gender hierarchies, and ideas of nationhood. Contributors represent various disciplines, work in one of the several languages of the Caribbean, and offer essays that reflect different cadres of expertise.

forum for inter-american research Vol 5

Autor: Wilfried Raussert

Número de Páginas: 538

Volume 5 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Between Two Worlds

Autor: Celucien L. Joseph , Jean Eddy Saint Paul , Glodel Mezilas

Número de Páginas: 309

Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars’s thought is also significant for the renewed scholarly interests in Haiti and Haitian Studies in North America, and the meaning of contemporary Africa in the world today. This volume explores various dimensions in Price-Mars’ thought and his role as historian, anthropologist, cultural critic, public intellectual, religious scholar, pan-Africanist, and humanist. The goal of this book is fourfold: it explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture, it studies Price-Mars’ engagement with Western history and the problem of the “racist narrative,” it interprets Price-Mars’ connections with Black Internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude Movement, and finally, the book underscores Price-Mars’ contributions to post colonialism, religious studies, Africana Studies, and Pan-Africanism.

Los estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe

Número de Páginas: 596

L’esclavage en Haïti. Entrecroisement des mémoires et enjeux de la patrimonialisation

Autor: Jean Ronald Augustin

Número de Páginas: 551

Les mémoires de l’esclavage sont présentes et continuellement réactualisées en Haïti. Elles sont caractérisées par l’invisibilité des lieux qui les supportent, l’invisibilité de la résistance culturelle et l’invisibilité des conséquences sociales de l’esclavage (la pauvreté, les inégalités). Leur patrimonialisation dépasse le cadre normatif de mise en valeur dans les musées, de création de parcs et de construction de mémorial. Elle dépend des expériences historiques, sociales et culturelles qui sont transmises. Cet ouvrage met à nu la distorsion entre la mémoire élaborée sur le plan étatique et le travail de mémoire non élaboré réalisé par la population. Après plus de deux siècles d’indépendance d’Haïti, il convient de chercher à comprendre ce qui a marqué, ce qui a été transmis, conservé, rejeté, refoulé, ce qui est mobilisable et mobilisé, dans quelles circonstances et avec quels objectifs. Aujourd’hui, où se situent le souvenir de la souffrance de l’esclavage et l’orgueil d’en avoir triomphé?

Champs littéraires et langues de la francophonie-monde

Autor: Thierry Léger , Louis Hervé Ngafomo

Número de Páginas: 250

Quels sont les repères épistémocritiques des champs littéraires géofrancophones à travers les cinq continents ? Comment penser les identités remarquables qui façonnent la création des imaginaires francophones au début du XXIe siècle ? Dans quelle mesure les dynamiques linguistiques enrichissent-elles le sens et rapprochent-elles les êtres humains au sein de la francophonie-monde ? En revisitant la trajectoire transculturelle et transfrontalière des constantes et des variantes des identités littéraires francophones de ces cinquante dernières années, comment construire un foyer critique et esthétique de l’émergence qui reflète la nouvelle cartographie des humanités en français, tout en maintenant le lien avec l’altérité ? Dans la quête de réponses à ces interrogations, une épistémè nouvelle et légitime éclaire l’hypothèse de débat posée par cet ouvrage : Champs littéraires et langues de la francophonie-monde. Une équipe d’universitaires du monde entier y explore des pistes novatrices pour renouveler les discussions sur la francophonie-monde.

The Unexceptional Case of Haiti

Autor: Philippe-richard Marius

Número de Páginas: 176

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...

The Haiti Reader

Autor: Laurent Dubois , Kaiama L. Glover , Nadève Ménard , Millery Polyné , Chantalle F. Verna

Número de Páginas: 440

While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Anglophone world. The Haiti Reader introduces readers to Haiti's dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life. Its dozens of selections—most of which appear here in English for the first time—are representative of Haiti's scholarly, literary, religious, visual, musical, and political cultures, and range from poems, novels, and political tracts to essays, legislation, songs, and folk tales. Spanning the centuries between precontact indigenous Haiti and the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the Reader covers widely known episodes in Haiti's history, such as the U.S. military occupation and the Duvalier dictatorship, as well as overlooked periods such as the decades immediately following Haiti's “second independence” in 1934. Whether examining issues of political upheaval, the environment, or modernization, The Haiti Reader provides an unparalleled look at Haiti's history, culture, and politics.

Race and Racism

Autor: Carolyn Fluehr-lobban

Número de Páginas: 289

Race and Racism examines the foundations of race in American society from an anthropological perspective. The book offers and accessible overview of a variety of perspectives and theories on the biology of race, the social context of race, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, and more. The second edition features significant updates throughout, including more discussion of critical race theory, new biophysical research on human origins, new material on media and racism, new global examples, and additional material on how racism impacts a variety of ethnic groups.

Leadership Sur Le Vif

Autor: Roosevelt Jean-françois

Número de Páginas: 126

L'écriture de Roosevelt Jean-Francois, limpide, argumentée, dense, est accessible au grand public. Ce qui est très rare de nos jours. Quel esprit vif, sincère, passionné! Pierre Raymond Dumas, Le Nouvelliste Un coup de flache qui permet d'éclairer les nouvelles pistes de progrès. Stephen Phelps Une analyse très lucide et pleine de vérité Guido

Reclaiming Haiti's Futures

Autor: Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson

Número de Páginas: 221

Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called jenerasyon 86, were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship (1957-1986). They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the jenn doktè, returned after the 2010 earthquake to partake in national reconstruction through public higher education reform. An ethnography of the future, the book explores how these returned scholars resisted coloniality's fractures and displacements by working toward and creating inhabitability or future-oriented places of belonging through improvisation, rasanblaj (assembly), and radical imagination. By centering on Haiti and the Caribbean, the book offers insights not just into the Haitian experience but also into how fractures have come to...

Critical Philosophy of Race

Autor: Robert Bernasconi

Número de Páginas: 393

The fifteen essays by distinguished philosopher of race Robert Bernasconi that are collected here demonstrate why the critical philosophy of race needs to take a historical turn. Genealogies of the concepts of both race and racism clarify why some of the dominant strategies for combatting racism tend to be ineffective. For example, the Boasian/UNESCO strategy that highlights biology's rejection of race neglects cultural racism. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, the late Sartre, and Michel Foucault, Robert Bernasconi argues for a holistic approach that integrates the concrete experience of racism faced by individuals into the study of institutional, structural, and systemic racism. His philosophical studies of such Black philosophers as Ottobah Cugoano, Anténor Firmin, and W. E. B. Du Bois, contribute to challenging the dominant philosophical canon. This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students interested in this resurgent topic.

Genetic Ancestry

Autor: Jada Benn Torres , Gabriel A. Torres Colón

Número de Páginas: 117

Genetic Ancestry focuses on the scientific nature and limitations of genetic ancestry testing. Co-authored by a genetic anthropologist and a cultural anthropologist, it examines the social, historical, and cultural dimensions of how people interpret genetic ancestry data. Utilizing examples from popular culture around the world and case studies from the Caribbean, the chapters highlight how genetic technology can sometimes bolster racial thinking and serve as tool of resistance and social justice.

Haiti in the British Imagination

Autor: Jack Daniel Webb

Número de Páginas: 288

Haiti in the British Imagination is the first book to focus on the diplomatic relations and cultural interactions between Haiti and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through acts of dialogue, Britons and Haitians impacted on the worldviews of one another, and with that changed the political and cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World.

Histoire en marges

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 369

Dès la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle, dans un contexte d’intense ségrégation raciale aux États-Unis, des Africains-Américains écrivent l’histoire occultée de leur communauté pour l’inscrire au cœur du récit national et, au-delà, pour révéler la contribution de la diaspora noire à l’histoire mondiale. Cette histoire en marge questionne la discipline historique elle-même et affirme la nécessité d’écrire une histoire-monde. Mais comment écrire une véritable histoire globale? Ce livre entend démontrer qu’il faut non seulement donner droit de cité à celles et ceux qui ont trop souvent été exclus du récit historique ou ont été relégués à ses marges, mais aussi concevoir la marge (géographique, sociale, économique) comme un centre d’innovation épistémologique et politique, un lieu paradoxalement privilégié pour (re)penser et (ré)écrire l’histoire. Depuis plus d’un siècle à travers le monde, des historiens et des historiennes placent la périphérie au centre et, par là même, déprovincialisent l’histoire. Ce sont ces travaux qui, faisant l’histoire des marges (sexuelles-genrées, impériales-coloniales,...

Haiti's Paper War

Autor: Chelsea Stieber

Número de Páginas: 379

2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals that the very concept of freedom was itself hotly contested in the public sphere, and it was this inherent tension that became the central battleground for the guerre de plume—the paper war—that vied to shape public sentiment and the very idea of Haiti. Stieber’s reading of post-independence Haitian writing reveals key insights into the nature of literature, its relation to freedom and politics, and how fraught and politically loaded the concepts of “literature” and...

Haiti and the Americas

Autor: Carla Calarge

Número de Páginas: 252

Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism, or is its main lesson one of failure? Haiti and the Americas brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize the ways that Haiti has been represented over time, and to look at Haiti's own cultural expressions in order to think about alternative ways of imagining its culture and history. Thinking about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes. Haiti is often represented as the region's nadir of poverty, of political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation, unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness that is in need of more powerful neighbors to ...