Haiti Fights Back

YVELINE ALEXIS is an associate professor of history at Oberlin College in Ohio.

• List of Illustrations (Ilistrasyon)Introduction: Haiti Fights (Ayiti Goumen)1 Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity/Humanity (Libète, Egalité, ak Fratènite/Imanite)2 U.S. Invasion (Envazyon Etazini)3 Haitians—Rise and Defend! (Ayisien(ne)—Leve epi defann!)4 Péralte Leads (Péralte kòm Lidè)5 Violence (Vyolans)6 We're Still Fighting (Nou Toujou ap Goumen)7 Second Revolution (Dezyèm Revolisyon)8 Péralte Resurrected (Péralte Resisite)9 Liberation with Péralte (Liberasyon ak Péralte)10 Péralte Will Never Die; He Remains Alive in Popular Memory (Péralte p'ap janm mouri; li rete vivan nan memwa popilè)AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"Conversation with author Yveline Alexis about her new book HAITI FIGHTS BACK: The life and Legacy of Charlemagne Peralte"— Lacaye Enterprises Tele Lacaye showYveline Alexis's "Haiti Fights Back"— The Page 99 TestNew Books Network: New Books in Caribbean Studies - interview with Yveline Alexis— New Books Network: New Books in Caribbean Studies"Haiti Fights Back demonstrates all that is to be gained when Haitian voices, perspectives and experiences are privileged in the telling of Haitian history. Haitian resistance to the US occupation was swift, innovative, and constant. With her narration of Péralte's life and legacy, Yveline Alexis offers a new path forward for engaging with the historical record."— Nadève Ménard, co-editor of The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics"Yveline Alexis zooms in on Charlemagne Péralte to show the ways in which cacos resistance to the US Occupation of 1915-1934 continues to loom large in Haitian imagination, at home and abroad. In the process, she charts and retraces his living memory as a revolutionary, martyr, and symbol of defiance in the Black Republic's ongoing battle for liberation. Haiti Fights Back looks backward to remind us why Black refusal matters now more than ever!"— Gina Athena Ulysse, author of Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD"My book of the year is Haiti Fights Back, by Yveline Alexis (Rutgers), a brilliant study of Haitian collective resistance to the American occupation (1915– highlights the role of the caco (guerrilla) leader Charlemagne Péralte, a remarkable figure who inspired and mobilized popular opposition to the American military presence, challenging the occupying forces' brutality and racism, and expressing the Haitian people's humanity and dignity through an array of contentious political actions, ranging from symbolic and rhetorical interventions to demonstrations and military operations. Written with sensitivity and verve, and steeped in ground-breaking archival scholarship, this is history at its most captivating: it tells a powerful story which draws out the courage and patriotism of ordinary Haitian men and women, underscores the vitality of their revolutionary tradition, and offers a timely historical perspective on this year's defeat of the American empire in Afghanistan."— Times Literary Supplement