anti-Haitianism

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ Haitian +‎ -ism

Noun

anti-Haitianism (uncountable)

1. prejudice or social discrimination against Haitians.
   • 2001, David Howard, Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic, Signal Books, →ISBN, page 157:

     The context of Dominican elections during the 1990s was one of anti-Haitianism

   • 2004, Richard Lee Turits, Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 177:

     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 […]

   • 2016, Brandon A Kohrt, Emily Mendenhall, Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 157:

     The roots of anti-Haitianism go back to European colonialism, when wealthy Spanish elites sought to exploit poor black and mulatto classes (Sagas 2000).

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: antihaitianismo