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NewsMary Renda Wins Yet Another Book Award
January 2003 This month, Mary Renda, associate professor of American Studies and History, was awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award for Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940 (2001).
In her vivid account of the often violent occupation of Haiti (1915-34) by United States Marines, Mary Renda brilliantly deciphers the cultural imprint of paternalistic imperialism on both the colonizers and the colonized, not only in Haiti but in the metropole. Drawing on a remarkably diverse range of sources, she offers an exceptional blend of rich conceptualization and engrossing particulars in exposing the mystifications, contradictions, nuances, and unintended consequences of this venture in American empire.
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