The Racism in other Latin American countries

by Saleen & Viena

The Dominican Republic and Brazil are home to the largest Afro- Latino communities.



Racism in The Dominican Republic
by Viena Zamora


Racism in the Dominican Republic exists due to the after-effects of slavery and the African Diaspora. Approximately 90% of Dominicans have some extent of African descent, however, few people self-identify as being black. Only 4.13% of Dominicans identified themselves as black while the majority, 82% identified as "Indio". "Indo" is a term to mean in-between "whiteness" and "blackness", so not explicitly black despite the facts that many Dominicans possess physical features much more similar to Africans. In the Dominican Republic, "blackness" is often associated with being Haitian and those who possess more African-like phenotypic features are often victims of discrimination. The discrimination Haitians and Dominicans of darker skin tone endure led to the trend of Dominicans denying their African ancestry.


Discrimination against Haitians



The Dominican Republic and the prejudice against darker-skinned people is the relations between Haitian and Dominicans. The term" anti-Haitianism” has been coined to described the discrimination against Haitians by Dominicans. The development of anti-Hatianism ideology can be attributed to the years of the Spanish racist mentality, racial stereotypes, and the historical propagation of dark-skinned people. Many Haitians have lost their lives as a result of this discrimination. The most notorious event that occurred was the massacres of Haitians in the Dominican Republic border region in 1937 under the order of former president, Rafael Trujillo. Approximately 10-20.000 men, women, children, babies and elderly, who were selected by their skin color, were massacred using machetes, guns or were thrown to sharks. While many of the people who lost their lives were Haitians who immigrated to the Dominican Republic, some were Haitians born in the Dominican Republic and those of Haitian-Dominican descent. Contemporary incidences of Dominican discrimination against individuals of Haitian descent included the mass deportation of Haitians under the premise of purifying the racial state of the Dominican Republic.



Source:

"5 Acts of Self-Hate and Racism in the Dominican Republic." Global Data Point, 3 June 2014. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A370118607/ITOF? u=lincclin_mdcc&sid=ITOF&xid=81aee2ca. Accessed 3 Mar. 2021 


Inroads: A Journal of Opinion. Wntr-Spring, 2016 Issue 38, p109, 12 p.

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