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The guise of exceptionalism : unmasking the national narratives of Haiti and the United States

Title: The guise of exceptionalism : unmasking the national narratives of Haiti and the United States / Robert Fatton Jr.
Author: Fatton, Robert
Publication: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Description

xiv, 226 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include the groups it had once excluded"--

Series Statement

Critical Caribbean studies

Uniform Title

Critical Caribbean studies.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

American exceptionalism -- Exceptionalism and "unthinkability" -- Manifest Destiny and the American occupation of Haiti -- The American occupation and Haiti's exceptionalism -- Imperial exceptionalism at the turn of the 20th century -- Dictatorship, democratization, and exceptionalism -- The diaspora and the transmogrification of exceptionalism -- Identity politics and modern exceptionalism.

Call Number

Sc E 21-299

ISBN

9781978821316
197882131X

LCCN

2020032419

OCLC

1182861235

Author

Fatton, Robert, author.

Title

The guise of exceptionalism : unmasking the national narratives of Haiti and the United States / Robert Fatton Jr.

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical Caribbean studies

Critical Caribbean studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-299

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