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Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and Struggle for Hispaniola

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Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and Struggle for Hispaniola
Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and Struggle for Hispaniola

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Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and Struggle for Hispaniola

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Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.

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