{"pk":42655,"title":"Democracy as a Human Right: Raymond Joseph, Despotic Haiti, and the Translation of a Rights Discourse, 1965–1969","subtitle":null,"abstract":"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 economic equality.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"American Studies"},{"word":"Caribbean"},{"word":"Transnational"},{"word":"democracy"},{"word":"Raymond Joseph"},{"word":"Haiti"},{"word":"Human Rights"}],"section":"SPECIAL FORUM: American Studies: Caribbean Edition (Edited by Belinda Edmondson and Donette Francis)","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94n2r4k6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Millery","middle_name":"","last_name":"Polyné","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2013-09-22T16:29:06Z","date_accepted":"2013-09-22T16:29:06Z","date_published":"2013-09-22T16:29:56Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/42655/galley/31835/download/"}]}