Alex Dupuy

Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens (eBook, PDF)

Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment, 1804-2013

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title focuses on Haiti from an international perspective, examining Haiti's position within the global economic and political order, and how more dominant members of the international community have exploited the country over the last 200 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317931010
• Artikelnr.: 40824232

Autorenporträt

Alex Dupuy is John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, USA. He is an internationally recognized scholar and specialist on Haiti. He has lectured at universities and colleges across the USA and abroad, and has given many interviews and commentaries on Haitian affairs on local, national, and international radio and television networks, including the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Toronto Public TV, Democracy Now!, WBAI, National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the BBC, the CBC, and the Australian Broadcasting Company. In addition to his many articles in professional journals and anthologies, he is the author of Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700 (1987); Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution (1997); and The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. The Capitalist World-Economy
the Fetishism of Commodities
and the Social Geography of Race: A Reply to Michel Foucault 2. Toussaint Louverture
the Haitian Revolution
and Negritude: A Critical Assessment of Aimé Césaire's Interpretation 3. From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens 4. The Transition to Democracy and the Demise of Color Politics in Haiti 5. The World Bank and Haiti: Abetting Dictatorship
Undermining Democracy 6. Class
Power
Sovereignty: Haiti Before and After the Earthquake