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1927

1927: Jacques Roumain and several other young writers founded La Revue Indigène to champion the life of the Haitian peasant as the source of authentic culture.

1927: Jacques Roumain and several other young writers founded La Revue Indigène to champion the life of the Haitian peasant as the source of authentic culture. These elite intellectuals were in open revolt against the American occupation and the traditional values of their own class.

Source  ·  p. 159 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 159