Millery Polyné
Biographic Data
| ID | 1394666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Millery Polyné |
| GIVEN NAMES | Millery |
| FAMILY NAME | Polyné |
| SIGNATURE | POLYNÉ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Haiti reader: History, Culture, Politics
While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Anglophone world. The Haiti Reader introduces readers to Haiti's dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life. Its dozens of selections--most of which appear here in English for the first time--constitute representati…
Haiti and the Uses of America: Post–U.S. Occupation Promises by Chantalle F. Verna
Reviewed by: Haiti and the Uses of America: Post–U.S. Occupation Promises by Chantalle F. Verna Millery Polyné Haiti and the Uses of America: Post–U.S. Occupation Promises. by Chantalle F. Verna. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 234 pp. ISBN 0813585163. $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paper. In Chantalle F. Verna's meaningful new book Haiti and the Uses of America, she presents the critical question that many urban elite Haitians of th…
Plantation matrix
The Moody Republic and the Men in Her Life: François Duvalier, African-Americans, and Haitian Exiles
This chapter explores the complex relations between African Americans, Haitian exiles, and the Haitian state during the early period of the Duvalier regime in Haiti. 1 It examines how competing visions of Haitian development, Pan-Americanism and US-Haitian relations were debated and shaped within and between these communities in response to Duvalier’s rule. While the Haitian exile groups were invariably anti-Duvalierist and pursued a vigorous cam…
The Idea Of Haiti Rethinking Crisis And Development
Democracy as a Human Right: Raymond Joseph, Despotic Haiti, and the Translation of a Rights Discourse, 1965-1969
This article examines Raymond Joseph's political vision of Haiti between 1965 and 1969, particularly through how he appropriates, links, and frames a human rights discourse that is dependent upon and constitutive of democratic principles of collectivity, popular control, and relative political and economic equality
To the "Sons" of Dessalines and of Pétion: Radicalism and the Idea of a "New" Haiti
This article examines the benefits and limitations of radicalism in Haiti during the post–US occupation period—1934–57. This critical and underexplored period, which Matthew J. Smith examines in his Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957, brought about a reevaluation of political and economic ideas, laws, and relationships critical to the development of the nation-state. Additionally, post–US occupation was …
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (review)
African Americans: The Face of Affirmative Action
African Americans: The Face of Affirmative Action
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (review)
To the "Sons" of Dessalines and of Pétion: Radicalism and the Idea of a "New" Haiti
This article examines the benefits and limitations of radicalism in Haiti during the post–US occupation period—1934–57. This critical and underexplored period, which Matthew J. Smith examines in his Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957, brought about a reevaluation of political and economic ideas, laws, and relationships critical to the development of the nation-state. Additionally, post–US occupation was …
The Moody Republic and the Men in Her Life: François Duvalier, African-Americans, and Haitian Exiles
This chapter explores the complex relations between African Americans, Haitian exiles, and the Haitian state during the early period of the Duvalier regime in Haiti. 1 It examines how competing visions of Haitian development, Pan-Americanism and US-Haitian relations were debated and shaped within and between these communities in response to Duvalier’s rule. While the Haitian exile groups were invariably anti-Duvalierist and pursued a vigorous cam…
The Idea Of Haiti Rethinking Crisis And Development
Democracy as a Human Right: Raymond Joseph, Despotic Haiti, and the Translation of a Rights Discourse, 1965-1969
This article examines Raymond Joseph's political vision of Haiti between 1965 and 1969, particularly through how he appropriates, links, and frames a human rights discourse that is dependent upon and constitutive of democratic principles of collectivity, popular control, and relative political and economic equality
Plantation matrix
Haiti and the Uses of America: Post–U.S. Occupation Promises by Chantalle F. Verna
Reviewed by: Haiti and the Uses of America: Post–U.S. Occupation Promises by Chantalle F. Verna Millery Polyné Haiti and the Uses of America: Post–U.S. Occupation Promises. by Chantalle F. Verna. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 234 pp. ISBN 0813585163. $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paper. In Chantalle F. Verna's meaningful new book Haiti and the Uses of America, she presents the critical question that many urban elite Haitians of th…
The Haiti reader: History, Culture, Politics
While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Anglophone world. The Haiti Reader introduces readers to Haiti's dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life. Its dozens of selections--most of which appear here in English for the first time--constitute representati…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works)