Meanings
- uncountablePrejudice or social discrimination against Haitians.
The context of Dominican elections during the 1990s was one of anti-Haitianism
2001, David Howard, Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic, Signal Books, →ISBN, page 1572 more examples
This new mode of racism emerged as a result of state terror and the official anti-Haitianism that followed it and served to rationalize the massacre. Popular anti-Haitianism may have been further amplified by fear of the state […]
2004, Richard Lee Turits, Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 177The roots of anti-Haitianism go back to European colonialism, when wealthy Spanish elites sought to exploit poor black and mulatto classes (Sagas 2000).
2016, Brandon A Kohrt, Emily Mendenhall, Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 157
Origin
Translations
Spanish antihaitianismo
- antihaitianismoTranslations
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