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Includes bibliography.
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Florida Atlantic University
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2014
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2014
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Media representations perpetuate stereotyped images of Haiti and Haitians. Such
expressions typically emphasize extreme poverty, mismanagement, exploitation,
hopelessness, and also environmental degradation. The environmental image of Haiti is
that it is massively deforested, and the connection of deforestation to poverty and other
problems has been captured in an iconic aerial photograph of the Haitian and Dominican
Republic (DR) border. First appearing in National Geographic in 1987 and replicated
since in various sources, the image displays a stark contrast between the tropical lushness
of the DR and a desert-like Haiti, stripped of its vegetation. The stark image in effect
dichotomizes a supposedly dysfunctional Haiti with a normally-functioning DR. This
study analyzes the “mythologies” that are reinforced by the photo and the discourse
surrounding it, which produces an accepted story of the way Haiti “is.” Going beyond
such stereotypes, the study considers ways of rewriting such depictions to account for
greater complexity.
expressions typically emphasize extreme poverty, mismanagement, exploitation,
hopelessness, and also environmental degradation. The environmental image of Haiti is
that it is massively deforested, and the connection of deforestation to poverty and other
problems has been captured in an iconic aerial photograph of the Haitian and Dominican
Republic (DR) border. First appearing in National Geographic in 1987 and replicated
since in various sources, the image displays a stark contrast between the tropical lushness
of the DR and a desert-like Haiti, stripped of its vegetation. The stark image in effect
dichotomizes a supposedly dysfunctional Haiti with a normally-functioning DR. This
study analyzes the “mythologies” that are reinforced by the photo and the discourse
surrounding it, which produces an accepted story of the way Haiti “is.” Going beyond
such stereotypes, the study considers ways of rewriting such depictions to account for
greater complexity.
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52 p.
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FA00003611
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Includes bibliography.
Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, 2014.
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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FAU
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FA00003611
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Attributed name: Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Christophe, Gerline
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52 p.
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RACHÉ MANYOK BAY TÉ-A BLANCHE: DEFORESTATION IN HAITI AND THE POWER OF AN IMAGE
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2014
2014
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Title
RACHÉ MANYOK BAY TÉ-A BLANCHE: DEFORESTATION IN HAITI AND THE POWER OF AN IMAGE
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RACHÉ MANYOK BAY TÉ-A BLANCHE: DEFORESTATION IN HAITI AND THE POWER OF AN IMAGE