Haitians in Michigan - Couverture souple

Largey, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870138812 ISBN 13 : 9780870138812

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Largey is Professor of Music at Michigan State University. He is an ethnomusicologist and folklorist specializing in the music and culture of Haiti.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870138812
• ISBN 13: 9780870138812
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 126
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