Between Two Worlds

Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa

Celucien L. Joseph, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Glodel Mezilas

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781498545761
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century's culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars's thought is also significant for the renewed scholarly interests in Haiti and Haitian Studies in North America, and the meaning of contemporary Africa in the world today. This volume explores various dimensions in Price-Mars' thought and his role as historian, anthropologist, cultural critic, public intellectual, religious scholar, pan-Africanist, and humanist.

The goal of this book is fourfold: it explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture, it studies Price-Mars' engagement with Western history and the problem of the "racist narrative," it interprets Price-Mars' connections with Black Internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude Movement, and finally, the book underscores Price-Mars' contributions to post colonialism, religious studies, Africana Studies, and Pan-Africanism.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Price-Mars and Haiti: Rethinking Haitian Culture, History, and Haitian Politics in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
• Price-Mars and Black Atlantic Intellectual History and Culture
• Price-Mars, Pan-Africanism, and the Meaning of Africa
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors