discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. 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. At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States.
contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years-and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Renda and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. Rendaĭownload or read book Taking Haiti written by Mary A.
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