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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical Caribbean studies
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Critical Caribbean studies.
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The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include €the groups it had once excluded. € |
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"The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include the groups it had once excluded"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. American Exceptionalism -- 3. Exceptionalism and "Unthinkability" -- 4. Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti -- 5. The American Occupation and Haiti's Exceptionalism -- 6. Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 7. Dictatorship, Democratization, and Exceptionalism -- 8. The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism -- 9. Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes |
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Exceptionalism -- Haiti -- History.
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Exceptionalism. |
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Haiti. |
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History. |
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Exceptionalism -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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National characteristics, Haitian -- History.
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National characteristics, American -- History.
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National characteristics, Haitian. |
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Haiti -- Relations -- United States.
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Relations. |
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United States -- Relations -- Haiti.
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National characteristics, American. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
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International relations. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: 9781978821323 1978821328 (DLC) 2020032419 (OCoLC)1182861235 |
| ISBN |
9781978821330 (electronic book) |
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1978821336 (electronic book) |
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9781978821354 (electronic book) |
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1978821352 (electronic book) |
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9781978821323 |
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1978821328 |
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9781978821316 |
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197882131X |
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