Democracy as a Human Right: Raymond Joseph, Despotic Haiti, and the Translation of a Rights Discourse, 1965–1969

This article examines Raymond Joseph’s political vision of Haiti between 1965 and 1969, particularly through how he appropriates, links, and frames a human rights discourse that is dependent upon and constitutive of democratic principles of collectivity, popular control, and relative political and e...

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Main Author: Millery Polyné
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2013-09-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/94n2r4k6