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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**

14 books
Book Cover for: Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, Vera M. Kutzinski

Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism

Vera M. Kutzinski
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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
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Book Cover for: Minty Alley, C. L. R. James

Minty Alley

C. L. R. James
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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
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Book Cover for: The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below, Carolyn E. Fick

The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below

Carolyn E. Fick
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

@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
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Book Cover for: The Belle Créole, Maryse Condé

The Belle Créole

Maryse Condé
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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
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Book Cover for: Everything Inside: Reese's Book Club: Stories, Edwidge Danticat

Everything Inside: Reese's Book Club: Stories

Edwidge Danticat
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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
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Book Cover for: Stella: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution, Emeric Bergeaud

Stella: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution

Emeric Bergeaud
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

@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
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Book Cover for: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney W. Mintz

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Sidney W. Mintz
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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
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Book Cover for: Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature, Shane Graham

Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature

Shane Graham
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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
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Book Cover for: Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises, Chantalle F. Verna

Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises

Chantalle F. Verna
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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)
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Book Cover for: The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States, Robert Fatton

The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States

Robert Fatton
Marlene DautMarlene Daut

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
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