A01=Jean Casimir
Africa
Africa vs. Guinea
Alexandre P?(R)tion
Alexandre P?®tion
Atlantic
Author_Jean Casimir
Baron de Vastey
Blacks
Bossales
captivity and enslavement
Caribbean
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Category=NHK
citizen
colonialism
coloniality/modernity
colonialitymodernity
community
counter-plantation or peasantry
counter-plantation system
culture
decolonial theory
elite
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eq_history
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eq_society-politics
family
fugitive or maroon
gender
governance
government or public administration
Haiti
Haitian Creole
inhabitant
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
lakou
language
memory
Moun or person
mulattoes
nation
national independence
oligarchy
people of color
plantations
private vs public life
race
slave vs. run-away
slavery
sovereignty
State
statehood
sufferers
U.S. occupation of Haiti
Whites
Product details
- ISBN 9781469651545
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
The Haitians also critically retheorizes the very nature of slavery, colonialism, and sovereignty. Here, Casimir centers the perspectives of Haiti's moun andeyo - the largely African-descended rural peasantry. Asking how these systematically marginalized and silenced people survived in the face of almost complete political disenfranchisement, Casimir identifies what he calls a counter-plantation system. Derived from Caribbean political and cultural practices, the counter-plantation encompassed consistent reliance on small-scale landholding. Casimir shows how lakou, small plots of land often inhabited by generations of the same family, were and continue to be sites of resistance even in the face of structural disadvantages originating in colonial times, some of which continue to be maintained by the Haitian government with support from outside powers.
The Haitians also critically retheorizes the very nature of slavery, colonialism, and sovereignty. Here, Casimir centers the perspectives of Haiti's moun andeyo - the largely African-descended rural peasantry. Asking how these systematically marginalized and silenced people survived in the face of almost complete political disenfranchisement, Casimir identifies what he calls a counter-plantation system. Derived from Caribbean political and cultural practices, the counter-plantation encompassed consistent reliance on small-scale landholding. Casimir shows how lakou, small plots of land often inhabited by generations of the same family, were and continue to be sites of resistance even in the face of structural disadvantages originating in colonial times, some of which continue to be maintained by the Haitian government with support from outside powers.
Jean Casimir, who served as Haitian ambassador to the United States and as a United Nations official, is professor of humanities at the University of Haiti; his most recent book is Haiti et ses elites.
Laurent Dubois is professor of romance studies and history at Duke University; his most recent book is Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean.
Walter D. Mignolo is professor of anthropology at Duke University; his most recent book is On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis, coauthored with Catherine E. Walsh.
Laurent Dubois is professor of romance studies and history at Duke University; his most recent book is Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean.
Walter D. Mignolo is professor of anthropology at Duke University; his most recent book is On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis, coauthored with Catherine E. Walsh.
