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African Americans
American culture
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Blair Rice Niles
Caribbean
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cultural history
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Eugene O'Neill
gender
Haiti
James Weldon Johnson
Langston Hughes
marines
masculinity
men
military
military intervention
national identity
occupation of Haiti
paternalism
race
sexuality
Smedley G. Butler
U.S. Marine Corps
United States
United States occupation of Haiti
violence
whiteness
William Seabrook
women
Woodrow Wilson
Zora Neale Hurston
Product details
- ISBN 9780807849385
- Weight: 616g
- Dimensions: 155 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2001
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The US invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that would last nineteen years - and that fed an American fascination with Haiti that would flourish even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of the US contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, the author shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of US imperialism. At the start of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans - including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines and politicians - responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on; a rich record of US discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policy-makers; the diaries, letters, songs and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langson Huges and Zora Neale Hurston.
Mary A. Renda is assistant professor of history and women's studies at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
