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English
Etymology
From anti- + Haitian + -ism.
Noun
anti-Haitianism (uncountable)
- 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).
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