The Political Lives of Haiti's Marron Inconnu.
The Marron Inconnu monument in Haiti is celebrated internationally as a symbol of the country and a powerful icon of Black liberation. But its lesser-known origins tell a more complex story. It was installed in 1968 as cultural propaganda supporting the ethnonationalist Duvalier dictatorship. How an...
| Publicado en: | Radical History Review Vol. 2025; no. 152; pp. 70 - 91 |
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Duke University Press
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