{"product_id":"taking-haiti-mary-a-renda-9780807849385","title":"Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940","description":"The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans--including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians--responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers; the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePathbreaking and provocative, \u003ci\u003eTaking Haiti\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary A. Renda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807849383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807849385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.14w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2001 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 942","brand":"Mary A. Renda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926310289663,"sku":"9780807849385","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5b45b04c-1c3f-42d6-add4-868849061e19.jpg?v=1681082358","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taking-haiti-mary-a-renda-9780807849385","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}