Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism
understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived
from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan
Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the
contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the children of
Petion v. the children of Dessalines." Although traditionally
viewed within racial terms - the mulatto elites v. the African
(black) poor majority - Mocombe suggests that the metaphor,
contemporarily, as utilized by the educated black grandon class
(middle-class bourgeois blacks) has come to represent Marxist
categories for racial-class (nationalistic) struggles on the island
of Haiti within the capitalist world-system under American
hegemony. The ideological position of Petion represents the
neoliberal views of the mulatto/Arab elites and petit-bourgeois
blacks; and nationalism, economic reform, and social justice
represent the ideological and nationalistic positions of Dessalines
as articulated by the grandon, actual children of Toussaint
Louverture, seeking to speak for the African majority (the children
of Sans Souci, the Congolese-born general of the Haitian
Revolution) whose practical consciousness, the Vodou Ethic and the
spirit of communism, differ from both the children of Dessalines
and Petion. In the final analysis, the moniker is a truncated
understanding of Haitian identity constitution, ideologies, and
their oppositions.
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