White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti

by Grace Sanders Johnson

Book Overview

This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915-34). The two decades following the occupation were some of the most politically dynamic and promising times in Haiti's modern history, but the history of women's political organizing in this period has received scant attention. Tracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469673681
• ISBN13: 9781469673684
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"