| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New world diasporas
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New World diasporas series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Relations with Haitians -- History.
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African Americans -- Relations with Haitians. |
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History. |
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United States -- Relations -- Haiti.
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United States. |
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Relations. |
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Haiti. |
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Haiti -- Relations -- United States.
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Pan-Americanism -- History.
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Pan-Americanism. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Haiti -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Polyné, Millery. From Douglass to Duvalier. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010 9780813034720 (DLC) 2009051048 (OCoLC)437299327 |
| ISBN |
9780813040196 (electronic book) |
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0813040191 (electronic book) |
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9780813034720 |
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9780813037639 |
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0813037638 |
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0813034728 |
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