Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. Renda devotes an entire chapter of her book Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. 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. 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. Rating details 120 ratings 8 reviews The U.S. At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. Renda, 2001, University of North Carolina Press edition, in English Taking Haiti (2001 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline.

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.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Summary: Publisher's description: The U.S. occupations in Haiti and the Dominican Republic sparked.

Taking Haiti by Mary A. Renda