IN THE NEWS | Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘Happy Go Lucky’ Haitian Children and the White Savior Narrative

Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘Happy Go Lucky’ Haitian Children and the White Savior Narrative

by Régine Jean-Charles

Ms. Magazine, October 21, 2020

Barrett’s Black Adopted Children Explained Only by “the Sum of their Trauma”
Problems in Transracial Adoption
Children as Symbols

https://msmagazine.com/2020/10/21/amy-coney-barrett-haiti-black-children-white-savior/

About Régine Jean-Charles

Régine Jean-Charles (@reineayiti) is a professor at Boston College and the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary. She is currently writing a book about representations of Haitian girls in literary and visual culture.