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Author Fatton, Robert, author.

Title The guise of exceptionalism : unmasking the national narratives of Haiti and the United States / Robert Fatton Jr
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Critical Caribbean studies
Critical Caribbean studies.
Contents Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. American Exceptionalism -- 3. Exceptionalism and "Unthinkability" -- 4. Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti -- 5. The American Occupation and Haiti's Exceptionalism -- 6. Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 7. Dictatorship, Democratization, and Exceptionalism -- 8. The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism -- 9. Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes
Summary The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include €the groups it had once excluded. €
"The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include the groups it had once excluded"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Haitian, exceptionalisms, American, independence, injurious stains, race, gender, class, social invention, ethnicity, infrastructural power, American Exceptionalism, Haiti's Exceptionalism, American Occupation of Haiti, Dictatorship, Democratization, Imperial Exceptionalism, 20th Century, Politics, racial, Caribbean, american occupation, imperialism, national founding narrative, Haitian Studies
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Subject Exceptionalism -- Haiti -- History
Exceptionalism -- United States -- History
National characteristics, Haitian -- History
National characteristics, American -- History
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY / General
Exceptionalism
International relations
National characteristics, American
National characteristics, Haitian
SUBJECT Haiti -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Relations -- Haiti
Subject Haiti
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781978821330
1978821336
9781978821354
1978821352