The Haitians a decolonial history /

Casimir, Jean,

The Haitians a decolonial history / Jean Casimir ; translated by Laurent Dubois ; with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Resisting the production of sufferers -- Colonial thought -- Slaves or peasants -- The pursuit of impossible segregation -- The citizen property-owner -- Public order and communal order -- The power and beauty of a sovereign people -- An independent state without a sovereign people -- The state in the nineteenth century.

"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"--



9781469660509


Sovereignty.


Electronic Books.

F1921 / .H358 2020