Fatton — The Guise of Exceptionalism: Chapter Notes Chapter-by-Chapter Notes
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Fatton — The Guise of Exceptionalism: Chapter Notes Chapter-by-Chapter Notes Preface and Acknowledgments (pp. xi–xv) Fatton opens by noting Trump's 2017 Christmas claim that Haitian refugees "all have AIDS" and his January 2018 "shithole" remark. These statements, he argues, are not aberrations but symptomatic of the deeper structure of American exceptionalism's demonization of the Haitian "other." He frames the entire book as a comparative unmasking of both American and Haitian invented national narratives, drawing on Eric Hobsbawm's concept of "invented traditions" and Gramsci's notion of organic intellectuals.
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