The unexceptional case of Haiti: race and class privilege in postcolonial bourgeois society
In: Caribbean studies series
Preface: positionality, method, and the Haitian vocabulary of color -- Introduction: privilege in Haiti and the Caribbean's modernity -- Historical context: class, race, and nation -- Snapshot of a western place: modern and racialized, unequal and moral -- Noirisme and the political instrumentality of Blackness -- Class and black-nationalist sociality -- Mulatto, prejudice, and other white tidemarks of the nation -- Unity in colorism and class ideologies -- Material unity in privilege -- The political economy of knowing white -- Liberal politics in a failure of hermeneutics--Yon Travay Jigantès.