Identity and Ideology in Haiti av Paul C. Mocombe

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<P>Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the children of P¿on v. the children of Dessalines." Although traditionally viewed within racial terms ¿ the mulatto elites v. the African (black) poor majority ¿ Mocombe suggests that the metaphor, contemporarily, as utilized by the educated black <I>grandon</I> class (middle-class bourgeois blacks) has come to represent Marxist categories for racial-class (nationalistic) struggles on the island of Haiti within the capitalist world-system under American hegemony. The ideological position of P¿on<B></B>represents the neoliberal views of the mulatto/Arab elites and petit-bourgeois blacks; and nationalism, economic reform, and social justice represent the ideological and nationalistic positions o