Jean Casimir (b.
1934) is Haiti's leading living sociologist and historian, and the scholar whose concept of the counter-plantation system (système contre-plantation) has most fundamentally reframed the interpretation of Haitian post-independence history for a global scholarly audience. His major English-language work, The Haitians: A Decolonial History (2020), translated by Laurent Dubois and published by the University of North Carolina Press with a foreword by Walter Mignolo, synthesizes f...
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Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-MéryMoreau de Saint-Méry — Gallica Collection1784
Gérard BarthélémyLe pays en dehors: Essai sur l'univers rural haïtien1989
Mimerose BeaubrunNan Domi: The Secret World of a Haitian Vodou Initiate2010
Jean CasimirThe Haitians: A Decolonial History2020
Jean CasimirThe Haitians: Chapter Notes — Chapters 9 and 102020
Jean CasimirThe Haitians: Chapter Notes — Chapters 7 and 82020
Jean CasimirThe Haitians: Chapter Notes — Chapters 4 and 52020
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Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Haiti
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