Social Stratification & Social Classes, Ethnic & Race Relations, Ethnic & Minority Studies, Nationalism & Sovereignty, Caribbean & West Indian History
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Overview
In this lively, provocative, and well-documented history, David Nicholls discusses the impact of "color" on the political relationship between the black majority and the mulatto elite during almost two hundred years of Haitian history. The divisive factor impeding harmony in Haitian culture, argues Nicholls, has not been race, but color. Identifying themselves as non-white, blacks and mulattos acknowledge racial unity. But color divisions, reinforced by religious, regional, and class differences, have nonetheless prevented the two groups from achieving poltitical and ideological unity. Nicholls grounds this sophisticated analysis in great historical detail and engaging, witty prose. Students and general readers alike will delight in this insightful and informative history of Haiti."New edition of a valuable survey of Haitian history that first appeared in 1979 (see HLAS 44:2491). Nicholls died in 1996, and changes to the original book appear to be limited to a new, 41-page preface that summarizes political events in the country from 1986-94"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Book Details
Published
November 30, 1979
Publisher
Cambridge [Eng.] ; Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Pages
360
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780521221771