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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: guise of exceptionalism
    sub title: unmasking the national narratives of Haiti and the United States
  name:
    name part: Fatton, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 226 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 coopt and include the groups it had once excluded.
  table of contents: American exceptionalism -- Exceptionalism and "unthinkability" -- Manifest Destiny and the American occupation of Haiti -- The American occupation and Haiti's exceptionalism -- Imperial exceptionalism at the turn of the 20th century -- Dictatorship, democratization, and exceptionalism -- The diaspora and the transmogrification of exceptionalism -- Identity politics and modern exceptionalism.
  note: Robert Fatton Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: nwht---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Exceptionalism
    geographic: Haiti
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Exceptionalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, Haitian
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Haiti
    topic: Relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Haiti
  classification: F1916 .F38 2021
  classification: 972.94
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Critical Caribbean studies
  identifier: 9781978821323
  identifier: 1978821328
  identifier: 9781978821316
  identifier: 197882131X
  identifier: 9781978821330
  identifier: 9781978821347
  identifier: 9781978821354
  identifier: 2020032419
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201003
    record change date: 20210728154725.0
    record identifier: in00004420842