An edition of Why the cocks fight (1999)

Why the cocks fight

Dominicans, Haitians, and the struggle for Hispaniola

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An edition of Why the cocks fight (1999)

Why the cocks fight

Dominicans, Haitians, and the struggle for Hispaniola

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Like two roosters in a fighting arena, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They share one Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto.

And just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds (a favorite sport in both countries) as a way of playing out human conflicts, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil.

Michele Wucker's reports on these struggles, both in Hispaniola and in the United States, take us through the haunted mountains where sixty years ago the Dominican dictator Trujillo ordered 30,000 Haitians to be killed, to Vodou rituals in Dominican sugarcane fields where Haitians work as near-slaves, and to ringside at cockfights in both countries as well as in the United States.

She focuses especially on the often contradictory policies of the United States toward each nation, which continue to influence the destiny of two important countries and of tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans living in the United States. Her discussion of these critically important national groups is essential for understanding their contribution to politics in our own country, indeed throughout the Western Hemisphere.

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Hill and Wang
Language
English
Pages
281

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Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola
April 3, 2000, Hill and Wang
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Why the cocks fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the struggle for Hispaniola
1999, Hill and Wang
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/2729307294
Library of Congress
F1938.25.H2 W83 1999, F1938.25.H2W83 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 281 p. :
Number of pages
281

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL365453M
ISBN 10
080903719X
LCCN
98025785
OCLC/WorldCat
40200381
Library Thing
1889011
Goodreads
2005384

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"Dangling his dead rooster by its feet, a grizzled cockfighter shuffles out the gate of the Manoguayabo cockfighting club through the parking lot, past a row of obsolete but still working hulks of cars, decrepit versions of old Russian models and American gas-guzzlers."

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