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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New World diasporas seriesPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813040196
  • 0813040191
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Douglass to Duvalier.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/2729407308996 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .P674 2010eb
Online resources:
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-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.
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.
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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.

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'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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