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Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century's culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars's thought is also significant for the renewed scholarly interests in Haiti and Haitian Studies in North America, and the meaning of contemporary Africa in the world today. This volume explores various dimensions in Price-Mars' thought and his role as historian, anthropologist, cultural critic, public intellectual, religious scholar, pan-Africanist, and humanist.
The goal of this book is fourfold: it explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture, it studies Price-Mars' engagement with Western history and the problem of the "racist narrative," it interprets Price-Mars' connections with Black Internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude Movement, and finally, the book underscores Price-Mars' contributions to post colonialism, religious studies, Africana Studies, and Pan-Africanism.
Contents
Introduction: Price-Mars in a Local and Global Context: Rethinking Haitian Culture and Human History
Celucien L. Joseph, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, and Glodel Mezilas
Part I. Price-Mars and Haiti: Rethinking Haitian Culture, History, and Haitian Politics in the Twentieth-Century and Beyond
1. The Role of Price-Mars' Thought in the Haitian Renaissance in the First Half of the Twentieth-Century
Esther I. Rodriguez Miranda
2.Price-Mars and Black Public Intellectual Tradition in Haiti: Cementing Scholarship With Service
Patrick Delices
3.Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars and the Impact of the United States Occupation on Haiti: 1915-1934
Patrick Delices
4.Jean Price-Mars: The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
Paul C. Mocombe
Part II. Price-Mars and Black Atlantic Intellectual History and Culture
5.Francophone Black Identity and Jean Price-Mars
William H. Alexander
6.From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean Negritude
Tammie Jenkins
7.Jean Price-Mars's Brazilian Connection: Arthur Ramos Reads Haiti
Myriam Mompoint
Part III. Price-Mars, Pan-Africanism, and the Meaning of Africa
8.Africa in the History of Ideas in Haiti
Glodel Mezilas
9.What is Africa to Me? Jean Price-Mars and the Significance of An African Collective Identity in Haiti
Patrick Delices
10.Jean Price-Mars and the Roots of the Dynamics between Antillanité, Créolité, and Pan-Africanism
Moussa Traore
11. The Possibility and Impossibility of God in Africa: Price-Mars, the African Islamic Tradition, and Early African Christianity
Celucien L. Joseph
