Haitians in Michigan
In Haitians in Michigan, Michael Largey chronicles the challenges facing Haitian immigrants and their U.S.-born children as they seek to maintain their cultural identity in the United States. Beginning with a useful outline of Haitian political history, Largey explains how Haiti and the United States have become linked by a shared history of commerce and colonialism.
Largey brings to life the political aspirations and expressions of Haitians in Michigan in a historical and ethnographic examination of Michigan's three principal Haitian enclaves, in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing. As Largey makes clear, Haitian-American civic, religious, and cultural organizations in these cities offer spaces for the creation of a culture that is uniquely Haitian and American.
Haitians in Michigan demonstrates the rich contributions of a people whose long and difficult struggle for self-determination brought them into a historical convergence with the United States. Largey shows how much the United States-and Michigan in particular-has benefited from this convergence.
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Largey brings to life the political aspirations and expressions of Haitians in Michigan in a historical and ethnographic examination of Michigan's three principal Haitian enclaves, in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing. As Largey makes clear, Haitian-American civic, religious, and cultural organizations in these cities offer spaces for the creation of a culture that is uniquely Haitian and American.
Haitians in Michigan demonstrates the rich contributions of a people whose long and difficult struggle for self-determination brought them into a historical convergence with the United States. Largey shows how much the United States-and Michigan in particular-has benefited from this convergence.
Haitians in Michigan
In Haitians in Michigan, Michael Largey chronicles the challenges facing Haitian immigrants and their U.S.-born children as they seek to maintain their cultural identity in the United States. Beginning with a useful outline of Haitian political history, Largey explains how Haiti and the United States have become linked by a shared history of commerce and colonialism.
Largey brings to life the political aspirations and expressions of Haitians in Michigan in a historical and ethnographic examination of Michigan's three principal Haitian enclaves, in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing. As Largey makes clear, Haitian-American civic, religious, and cultural organizations in these cities offer spaces for the creation of a culture that is uniquely Haitian and American.
Haitians in Michigan demonstrates the rich contributions of a people whose long and difficult struggle for self-determination brought them into a historical convergence with the United States. Largey shows how much the United States-and Michigan in particular-has benefited from this convergence.
Largey brings to life the political aspirations and expressions of Haitians in Michigan in a historical and ethnographic examination of Michigan's three principal Haitian enclaves, in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing. As Largey makes clear, Haitian-American civic, religious, and cultural organizations in these cities offer spaces for the creation of a culture that is uniquely Haitian and American.
Haitians in Michigan demonstrates the rich contributions of a people whose long and difficult struggle for self-determination brought them into a historical convergence with the United States. Largey shows how much the United States-and Michigan in particular-has benefited from this convergence.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780870138812 |
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| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press |
| Publication date: | 04/01/2010 |
| Series: | Discovering the Peoples of Michigan |
| Pages: | 126 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d) |
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