Antidialectics: Vodou and The Haitian Revolution in
Opposition to The African American
Civil Rights Movement
Volume 1 - Issue 1
Paul C Mocombe*
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- West Virginia State University, USA
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Paul C Mocombe, West Virginia State University, The Mocombeian Foundation Inc., USA
Received: October 01, 2019; Published: November 18, 2019
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Abstract
This work, using a structurationist approach to consciousness constitution, focuses on how and why the purposive - rationality
of the originating moments of the Haitian Revolution and Vodou diametrically opposes that of the African American Civil Rights
movement and the desires of the Affranchis of Haiti. The author concludes that the antidialectical intent of the originating moments
of the Haitian Revolution at Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caiman) was not for equality of opportunity, distribution, and recognition with
whites by reproducing their norms and structure, as in the case of the African American civil rights movement under the purposiverationality
of liberal bourgeois black Protestant men. Instead, it was a clarion call, which emerges out of Vilokan/Haitian Idealism,
for the reconstitution of a new world order or structuring structure “enframed” by an African linguistic and spiritual community,
Vodou and kreyol, respectively, grounded in, and “enframing,” liberty and fraternity among blacks or death. In fact, the author posits
that it is the infusion of the former worldview, liberal bourgeois Protestantism via the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism,
on the island by the mulatto elites and petit-bourgeois free persons of color, Affranchis, looking to Canada, France, and America for
equality of opportunity, distribution, and recognition that not only threatens Haiti and its practical consciousnesses, Vodou and
Kreyol, contemporarily, but all life and civilizations on earth because of its economic growth and accumulative logic within the finite
space and resources of the earth.
Keywords: African-Americanization; phenomenological structuralism; Vodou; Religiosity; Black Diaspora; Dialectical; Antidialectical;
Haitian Epistemology; Vilokan/Haitian Idealism
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