Marlene Daut Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Professor Coming next: Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History Coming soon: The First & Last King of Haiti **See you later: going on a break from here**

Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism
Vera M. Kutzinski
On sugar: Sidney Mintz: Sweetness and Power Vera Kutzinski: Sugar's Secrets #docuhistory
Paperback, 1993
$42.00$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Minty Alley
C. L. R. James
For those who have never read CLR James's only novel, Minty Alley, wow....I promise you won't be disappointed.... The story is captivating and the writing is amazing: https://t.co/OzB56270eg
Paperback, 2019
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below
Carolyn E. Fick
@HSGlobalHistory @Soccerpolitics @JuliaGaffield I would say off the top of my head, Carolyn Fick’s *Making Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below*
Paperback, 1991
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Belle Créole
Maryse Condé
If you're looking for something to read during these times, I recommend *The Belle Créole* by Maryse Condé (translated by Nicoke Simek). CARAF (Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French) is a great series out of @uvapress https://t.co/LuDdskWGvt
Paperback, 2020
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Everything Inside: Reese's Book Club: Stories
Edwidge Danticat
I highly recommend Danticat's *Everything Inside* and Rachel Douglas's *Making the Black Jacobins*. These two books made me think so much about the relationship between celebrity (death) worship and history from below: whose lives will be remembered? https://t.co/rkkjkImRxD
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stella: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution
Emeric Bergeaud
@HSGlobalHistory I also teach the first Haitian novel, which was published in 1856 and fictionalizes the Haitian Revolution. It's called Stella and was written by Emeric Bergeaud: https://t.co/eLQ5FPku7P
Paperback, 2015
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sidney W. Mintz
On sugar: Sidney Mintz: Sweetness and Power Vera Kutzinski: Sugar's Secrets #docuhistory
Paperback, 1986
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature
Shane Graham
New World Studies @uvapress presents: *Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature* by Shane Graham https://t.co/91IDdzl37A *Commissioned by J. Michael Dash
Paperback, 2020
$43.50$21.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises
Chantalle F. Verna
Chantalle Verna, Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises #docuhistory
Hardcover, 2017
$150.00$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States
Robert Fatton
Very excited to see this new book coming out by my @WoodsonUVA colleague, Robert Fatton, Jr.: "The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States" https://t.co/ifYJPGo2EB
Paperback, 2021
$41.95$20.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book