1927–1929: (La Revue Indigène and the Surge of Haitian Nationalism — The Journal Celebrating the African Ancestry of the Haitian People and Denouncing French…

1927–1929: (La Revue Indigène and the Surge of Haitian Nationalism — The Journal Celebrating the African Ancestry of the Haitian People and Denouncing French Culture as the Foundation of Haitian Thought, Further Framed by Price-Mars’s 1928 Ainsi Parla l’Oncle Articulating a Cultural Nationalism Centering the Life Experiences of the Haitian Peasant Majority Including Vodou, This Intellectual Surge Amplified Through the 1929 Student Strikes at the US Industrial Education School in Damien and Mounting Frustration with Borno’s Puppet Presidency — and Most Notably the Women’s Protests During the 1930 Forbes Commission’s Visit to Haiti): Through La Revue Indigène the authors celebrated the African ancestry of the Haitian people and denounced French culture and thinking as the foundation of Haitian thought. Their collective works and pronouncement of an indigenous African-based Haitian episteme were further framed by Price-Mars’s 1928 publication Ainsi parla l’oncle, in which he articulated a cultural nationalism that centered the life experiences of the Haitian peasant majority, including scholarly attention to agricultural practices and Vodou. This intellectual surge in Haitian nationalism and information circulation was further amplified through the 1929 student strikes at the US industrial education school in Damien, the mounting frustration by opposition and US occupying forces with Borno’s puppet presidency, and most notably the women’s protests during the 1930 Forbes Commission’s visit to Haiti. The cultural renaissance and the political resistance were not parallel tracks but braided ones — the same families that produced the writers of La Revue Indigène had produced the women who fundraised for the UP delegation, and the same streets that carried Malbranche-Sylvain’s two hundred marchers would soon carry ten thousand.