discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.Pathbreaking and provocative, Taking Haiti illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans-including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians-responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. imperialism.At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S.
Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S.
Renda’s main thesis was how the idea of paternalism and the military occupation in Haiti not only affected the country itself, but also how it affected the culture and mindset of Americans. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years-and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. In the book Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S.
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