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Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars’s thought is also significant for the renewed scholarly interests in Haiti and Haitian Studies in North America, and the meaning of contemporary Africa in the world today. This volume explores various dimensions in Price-Mars’ thought and his role as historian, anthropologist, cultural critic, public intellectual, religious scholar, pan-Africanist, and humanist.

The goal of this book is fourfold: it explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture, it studies Price-Mars’ engagement with Western history and the problem of the “racist narrative,” it interprets Price-Mars’ connections with Black Internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude Movement, and finally, the book underscores Price-Mars’ contributions to post colonialism, religious studies, Africana Studies, and Pan-Africanism.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Price-Mars in a Local and Global Context: Rethinking Haitian Culture and Human History
Celucien L. Joseph, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, and Glodel Mezilas

Part I. Price-Mars and Haiti: Rethinking Haitian Culture, History, and Haitian Politics in the Twentieth-Century and Beyond

The Role of Price-Mars’ Thought in the Haitian Renaissance in the First Half of the Twentieth-CenturyEsther I. Rodriguez Miranda

Price-Mars and Black Public Intellectual Tradition in Haiti: Cementing Scholarship With ServicePatrick Delices

Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars and the Impact of the United States Occupation on Haiti: 1915-1934Patrick Delices

Jean Price-Mars: The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of CommunismPaul C. Mocombe

Part II. Price-Mars and Black Atlantic Intellectual History and Culture

Francophone Black Identity and Jean Price-Mars William H. Alexander

From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean NegritudeTammie Jenkins

Jean Price-Mars’s Brazilian Connection: Arthur Ramos Reads HaitiMyriam Mompoint


Part III. Price-Mars, Pan-Africanism, and the Meaning of Africa

Africa in the History of Ideas in HaitiGlodel Mezilas

What is Africa to Me? Jean Price-Mars and the Significance of An African Collective Identity in HaitiPatrick Delices

Jean Price-Mars and the Roots of the Dynamics between Antillanité, Créolité, and Pan-AfricanismMoussa Traore

The Possibility and Impossibility of God in Africa: Price-Mars, the African Islamic Tradition, and Early African ChristianityCelucien L. Joseph

Product details

Published Feb 07 2018
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 308
ISBN 9781498545754
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 4 tables
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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