Jayaram, Kiran C.2014-01-242014-01-242002-01-01https://hdl.handle.net/1808/12842Submitted to the Center of Latin American Studies and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of ArtsThe ideological, cultural, and physical means which brought François Duvalier to power in 1957 created a process whereby the state idea became the metonym for all Haitian identity. In what is now called the Roots movement, some people working on the grassroots level began resisting the Duvaliers and asserting a new Haitian identity for themselves. Among the several parts of the movement, people calling themselves sanba-s began experiencing and living according to what they considered “traditional” means, wherefrom they created a new music, mizik rasin. An analysis of the sanba-s’ politics of identity regarding history, music, dress, language, and religion conveys a cultural critique of late Duvalierism and other contemporary social issues.This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.ThesisopenAccess