Georges Woke Up Laughing : Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. ‘‘At First IWas Laughing’’ -- 2. Long-Distance Nationalism Defined -- 3. Delivering the Commission: The Return of the Native -- 4. ‘‘Without Them, IWould Not Be Here’’: Transnational Kinship -- 5. ‘‘The Blood Remains Haitian’’: Race, Nation, and Belon...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. ‘‘At First IWas Laughing’’ -- 2. Long-Distance Nationalism Defined -- 3. Delivering the Commission: The Return of the Native -- 4. ‘‘Without Them, IWould Not Be Here’’: Transnational Kinship -- 5. ‘‘The Blood Remains Haitian’’: Race, Nation, and Belonging in the Transmigrant Experience -- 6. ‘‘She Tried to Reclaim Me’’: Gendered Long- Distance Nationalism -- 7. The Generation of Identity: The Long-Distance Nationalism of the Second Generation -- 8. ‘‘The Responsible State’’: Dialogues of a Transborder Citizenry -- 9. The Apparent State: Sovereignty and the State of U.S.–Haitian Relations -- 10. Long-Distance Nationalism as a Debate: Shared Symbols and Disparate Messages -- 11. The Other Side of the Two-Way Street: Long-Distance Nationalism as a Subaltern Agenda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung