From Douglass to Duvalier [electronic resource] : U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 /
Polyne, Millery
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
'From Douglass to Duvalier' examines the creative and critical ways U.S. African Americans and Haitians engaged the idealized tenets of Pan Americanism - mutual cooperation, egalitarianism, and nonintervention between nation-states - in order to strengthen Haiti's social, economic, and political growth and stability.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-268)  and index.
"The spirit of the age-- establish[es] a sentiment of universal brotherhood": Haiti, "Santo Domingo" and Frederick Douglass at the intersection of the United States and Black Pan Americanism -- "To combine the training of the head and the hands":  the 1930 Robert R. Moton Education Commission in Haiti -- "We cast in our lot with the policy of good neighborliness": Claude Barnett, Haiti and the business of race -- "What happens in Haiti has repercussions which far transcend Haiti itself": Walter White, Haiti and the public relations campaign, 1947-1955 -- "To carry the dance of the people beyond": Jean-León Destine, Lavinia Williams and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne -- "The moody republic and the men in her life": François Duvalier, U.S. African Americans and Haitian exiles, 1957-1964.
'From Douglass to Duvalier' examines the creative and critical ways U.S. African Americans and Haitians engaged the idealized tenets of Pan Americanism - mutual cooperation, egalitarianism, and nonintervention between nation-states - in order to strengthen Haiti's social, economic, and political growth and stability.
Description based on print version record.
Pan-Americanism
African Americans