Trouillot, Michel-Rolph — Haiti: State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism (1990) Source Information

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph — Haiti: State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism (1990) Source Information Author: Michel-Rolph Trouillot Full Title: Haiti: State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism Publisher: Monthly Review Press Year: 1990 Type: Secondary Source — political history, state theory, long-view structural analysis Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ PDF: ~/dev/rasin/data/sources/secondary_sources/annas_archive_new/trouillot-haiti-state-against-nation.pdf Status Text extracted: Yes (PDF) Review pass: Audited and integrated (2026-03-31) — full read focused on the state/nation framework, Duvalierist structure, post-independence political economy, and color/culture politics Chapter notes: trouillot haiti state against nation ch notes Graph review in this pass: Strengthened francois duvalier, noirisme, us occupation haiti, jean price mars, haitian state, and revolution of 1946; linked the source into moc sources, moc historiography, and moc timeline Overview Haiti: State Against Nation is Trouillot's systematic account of how the Haitian state came to stand against the Haitian nation — not as an accident or a moral failure, but as the structural outcome of a political economy set in motion at independence. The book is both a historical narrative (1697 to 1988) and a theoretical argument: that Duvalierism was not a rupture with Haitian history but its most extreme formalization. The title's opposition — state versus nation — is the book's core analytical frame.