The Sense of Place in Firmin’s Monsieur Roosevelt, Président des États-Unis et de la République d’Haïti

Lucien, Georges Eddy; Dize, Nathan H.; Meï, Siobhan

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“…I supplement this text with reflections on this period in Paul’s work and Firmin’s M. Roosevelt, Président des États-Unis et Haïti (Firmin 1905; hereafter Roosevelt ). A comparative history of the United States and Haiti that unfolds as a comparative history of British, Spanish, and French colonialism (Lucien 2021), Roosevelt adds Firmin’s analysis of color prejudice to what he had earlier called true liberalism. Together, these sources allow us to reconstruct the contours of Haitian liberalism as committed to the foundational ideas of historical progress, national regeneration, and the rehabilitation of the Black race globally.…”

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Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism

HOLLEY

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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This article recovers Anténor Firmin’s contribution to anticolonial political thought by excavating his liberal worldmaking project of global racial equality and anticolonial solidarity. I assess Firmin’s contrast between “true” and “false” liberalism in Haiti, reconstructing his understanding of true Haitian liberalism as committed to the core ideas of historical progress, national regeneration, and rehabilitation of the Black race globally. I contextualize his Equality of the Human Races in metropolitan Paris during his first exile, arguing that his critique of anthropological racism should be seen as integral to his commitment to Haitian liberalism. I then situate his discussion of what he called “European Solidarity” in wider legitimating languages of French colonialism. This recovers Firmin’s neglected critique of colonialism as a reciprocal system of economic exploitation and discursive domination, and his attempt to rescue the universal ideal of solidarity from its truncated expression in languages of racial inequality and practices of colonization.

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Section: True Liberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism

HOLLEY

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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The Sense of Place in Firmin’s Monsieur Roosevelt, Président des États-Unis et de la République d’Haïti

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Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism

Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism

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