5498: New book on Haiti and Jamaica (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Gina Ulysse <gulysse@bates.edu>

Hello Corbetters,


I wanted to alert everyone to a new historical study on Haiti and
Jamaica
that may be of interests to folks here particularly since it offers a
compartive perspective
that is so necessary if Haiti is to move out or be removed from its
isolated "savage slot"

Mimi Sheller
Democracy After Slavery:
Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica.
UK Macmillan/USA University Press of Florida.
ISBN: 0-333-792637. 296 pages, 15.50.

Mimi is a sociologist who revceived her degree from the New School
several years ago.
She is currently teaching at the University of Lancaster in the UK.