Casimir, Jean — The Haitians: A Decolonial History (2020) Source Information
Curated Interpretationstudio1804 Research — Scholarly Apparatusfr
Original document
No original document available
3 passages · Use Ctrl+F to searchPrimary
OCR transcription
Casimir, Jean — The Haitians: A Decolonial History (2020) Source Information
Machine OCR; verify against the facsimile for citations.
Casimir, Jean — The Haitians: A Decolonial History (2020) Source Information
Author: Jean Casimir (b. 1934), Haitian sociologist and historian
Full Title: The Haitians: A Decolonial History
Translator: Laurent Dubois
Foreword: Walter D. Mignolo
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
Year: 2020 (English translation; original French published earlier)
Type: Secondary Source — Decolonial History, Sociology
Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/
Extracted Text: casimir haitians.txt Overview Groundbreaking thesis: Casimir argues that Haiti produced two distinct social formations after 1804:
The State — A modern/colonial nation-state modeled on French institutions, operating in French, serving elite interests
The Sovereign People — The counter-plantation system (système contre-plantation), operating in Kreyòl, organized through Vodou and the lakou, representing the true Haitian Revolution Central argument: The Haitian Revolution was not merely the creation of a state, but "the destruction of a slave system through the creation of a national community" — a community that exists outside and despite the state apparatus.
Private Beta
Full access requires sign-in
rasin.ai is in private beta. Sign in to read the full transcription, summaries, claims, and entities for this document.