From Douglass to Duvalier : U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 / Millery Polyné. PRINT

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.

"The spirit of the age-- establish[es] a sentiment of universal brotherhood": Haiti, "Santo Domingo" and Frederick Douglass at the intersection of the United States and Black Pan Americanism -- "To combine the training of the head and the hands": the 1930 Robert R. Moton Education Commission in Haiti -- "We cast in our lot with the policy of good neighborliness": Claude Barnett, Haiti and the business of race -- "What happens in Haiti has repercussions which far transcend Haiti itself": Walter White, Haiti and the public relations campaign, 1947-1955 -- "To carry the dance of the people beyond": Jean-León Destiné, Lavinia Williams and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne -- "The moody republic and the men in her life": François Duvalier, U.S. African Americans and Haitian exiles, 1957-1964.

Stretching from the thoughts and words of American intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass, Robert Moton, and Claude Barnett to the Civil Rights era, the range of this work examines the political, economic, and cultural relations between U.S. African Americans and Haitians.