The Guise of Exceptionalism
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2132-3 (ISBN)
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.
ROBERT FATTON JR. is the Julia A. Cooper Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He is the author of many books, including Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery and Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgement
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 American Exceptionalism
Chapter 3 Exceptionalism and “Unthinkability”
Chapter 4 Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti
Chapter 5 The American Occupation and Haiti’s Exceptionalism
Chapter 6 Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 7 Dictatorship, Democratization, And Exceptionalism
Chapter 8 The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism
Chapter 9 Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 4 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-2132-8 / 1978821328 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-2132-3 / 9781978821323 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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