In Someone Else's Country: Anti-Haitian Racism and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic - Paperback

by Trenita Brookshire Childers (Author)

In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans of Haitian descent are denied full citizenship in the only country they have ever known. As birthright citizens, they now wonder why they are treated like they are "in someone else's country."

Author Biography

Trenita Brookshire Childers, a 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar, is a health researcher at the American Institutes for Research. Previously, Dr. Childers was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. She received her PhD in sociology from Duke University.