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White Gloves, Black Nation

Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti

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This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The two decades following the occupation were some of the most politically dynamic and promising times in Haiti's modern history, but the history of women's political organizing in this period has received scant attention. Tracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside of Kenscoff, Haiti, to Philadelphia, the Belgian Congo, and back to Port-au-Prince, this book tells the story of Haitian women's essential role as co-curators of modern Haitian citizenship. Set in a period when national belonging was articulated in philosophies of African authenticity, revolutionary nostalgia, and working-class politics, Sanders Johnson considers how an emerging educated and professional class of women who understood themselves as descendants of the Haitian Revolution established...

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

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  • Release date: September 19, 2024

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  • ISBN: 9781469673691
  • Release date: September 19, 2024

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  • ISBN: 9781469673691
  • File size: 18092 KB
  • Release date: September 19, 2024

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This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The two decades following the occupation were some of the most politically dynamic and promising times in Haiti's modern history, but the history of women's political organizing in this period has received scant attention. Tracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside of Kenscoff, Haiti, to Philadelphia, the Belgian Congo, and back to Port-au-Prince, this book tells the story of Haitian women's essential role as co-curators of modern Haitian citizenship. Set in a period when national belonging was articulated in philosophies of African authenticity, revolutionary nostalgia, and working-class politics, Sanders Johnson considers how an emerging educated and professional class of women who understood themselves as descendants of the Haitian Revolution established...


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