Sentences with phrase «postwar cultural power»

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Set primarily in the 1950s, when Haitian cultural export — particularly of what is now referred to as first generation Haitian art — was on the rise and the country was opening itself to tourism, and when Americans were awash with a postwar optimism that celebrated America's political and economic power, it tells us relatively little about Haiti at mid-century and a great deal about the ways Americans saw themselves and the rest of the world.