Haitianization

English

Etymology

Haitian +‎ -ization

Noun

Haitianization (uncountable)

1. The process of making something Haitian.
2. The process of something taking on Haitian characteristics.
   • 1985, John D. Forbes, Jamaica Managing Political and Economic Change, Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     The earlier political consensus disappeared, and the strength of Jamaican democracy was severely tested. Talk of the gradual "Haitianization" of the island replaced predictions of economic takeoff.

   • 2010, Robert W. Slenes, edited by Mark M. Smith and Robert L. Paquette, The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, 5 Brazil, page 124:

     ...increased unrest on the part of slaves. The latter... sharpened masters' long-standing fears of "Haitianization", already made acute by the 1835 Malê rebellion...