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

Polyné, Millery.

From Douglass to Duvalier : U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 / Millery Polyné. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations - New world diasporas . - New World diasporas series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.

"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-León Destiné, Lavinia Williams and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne -- "The moody republic and the men in her life": François Duvalier, U.S. African Americans and Haitian exiles, 1957-1964.

'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.

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Universidad Sergio Arboleda


African Americans--Relations with Haitians--History.
Pan-Americanism--History.
Noirs américains--Relations avec les Haïtiens--Histoire.
Panaméricanisme--Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Globalization.
African Americans--Relations with Haitians.
Pan-Americanism.
Race relations.
International relations.
Schwarze


United States--Relations--Haiti.
Haiti--Relations--United States.
United States--Race relations.
Haiti--Race relations.
États-Unis--Relations raciales.
Haïti--Relations raciales.
Haiti.
United States.
Haiti


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

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