Jennifer L Shoaff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1436627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Shoaff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shoaff |
| SIGNATURE | SHOAFF J L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Borders of Visibility
Borders of Visibility
In the Face of a Haitian Child
In the immediate aftermath of the Haitian earthquake on January 12, 2010, the representative victim-survivor in multiple media sites appeared to the world in the face of the Haitian child-cum-orphan. This poignant image of loss and suffering lent urgency to a range of altruistic responses—or rather, paternalistic interventions—by white families in the U.S. I argue that in both narrative and practice, dominant constructions of normative (white) mo…
The Right to a Haitian Name and a Dominican Nationality
In this essay, I examine the historical precedent to la sentencia (TC 169-13), the sentence handed down by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Tribunal on September 23, 2013. Aptly described as civil death, social apartheid, and administrative genocide, la sentencia, I argue, is the Dominican state’s most recent attempt to contain race and nation. It reveals a multilayered dispersal of state power—the legislative, judicial, administrative, mi…
The Right to a Haitian Name and a Dominican Nationality
In this essay, I examine the historical precedent to la sentencia (TC 169-13), the sentence handed down by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Tribunal on September 23, 2013. Aptly described as civil death, social apartheid, and administrative genocide, la sentencia, I argue, is the Dominican state’s most recent attempt to contain race and nation. It reveals a multilayered dispersal of state power—the legislative, judicial, administrative, mi…
The Right to a Haitian Name and a Dominican Nationality
In this essay, I examine the historical precedent to la sentencia (TC 169-13), the sentence handed down by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Tribunal on September 23, 2013. Aptly described as civil death, social apartheid, and administrative genocide, la sentencia, I argue, is the Dominican state’s most recent attempt to contain race and nation. It reveals a multilayered dispersal of state power—the legislative, judicial, administrative, mi…
Borders of Visibility
Borders of Visibility
In the Face of a Haitian Child
In the immediate aftermath of the Haitian earthquake on January 12, 2010, the representative victim-survivor in multiple media sites appeared to the world in the face of the Haitian child-cum-orphan. This poignant image of loss and suffering lent urgency to a range of altruistic responses—or rather, paternalistic interventions—by white families in the U.S. I argue that in both narrative and practice, dominant constructions of normative (white) mo…
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · black (2 works) · Black Women (2 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works) · Caribbean area (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · emigration and immigration (2 works)