The Haitians by Jean Casimir, Laurent Dubois, Walter D. Mignolo - 9781469651545

The University of North Carolina Press

The HaitiansA Decolonial History\nAuthor(s): Jean Casimir, Laurent Dubois, Walter D. Mignolo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469651545, 978-1469651545\nSynopsis\nIn 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 [url] occupation in 1915.\n\nThe 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 systemat.