Gender Roles And Family Relationships In Early Day Haitian Society

Preamble

The roles of gender and family relations in Haiti have their roots in different cultural situations of the populace. Usually, the two main cultural influences are African and French. At one extreme is the African heritage. Among the Afro-Haitians who occupy the three lower classes of Haitian society, middle class, lower class urban and rural peasantry, the African cultural heritage remains strong. This is particularly evident in the areas of marital relations, defined roles of each gender before and after marriage, joint types and the extended family system. At the other extreme you have the Franco-Haitian or mulattoes, who have embraced the wholesale French heritage, and they occupy the upper class elite of Haitian society.

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