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State Racism and Anti-Haitianism in the Construction of Dominican Nationalism

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  • Simone Rodrigues Pinto
No. 10 (2018): Abril-septiembre. Dossier: "El racismo en el Caribe: prácticas y resistencias"
https://doi.org/10.5354/mrd.v0i10.48847

Abstract

The text seeks to understand how the processes of racialization and ethnization in the Dominican Republic operate, manifested through negrophobia and anti-Haitianism, and based on historiographical and sociological academic production in direct relation with public policies and foreign policy. In this way, the role of the intellectuals engaged in the construction of a nation-wide project that seeks a euphemization, resignification and concealment of racist and xenophobic practices, especially in relation to neighboring Haiti, is emphasized. The theoretical-methodological framework will be the critical analysis of the discourse, in the line of Michel Foucault and Norman Fairclough, in which the dialectical and social nature of discourse is evidenced. The subject of the discourse not only reproduces ideological rigidity and is subject to it, but is also capable of critical and transformative action. Thus, it is emphasized that in the Dominican discursive production there are internal resistances and there are intellectuals that defy the hegemonic vision. In sum, the focus of this article will be the texts and speeches proclaimed by literate individuals linked to the construction of negrophobia but also without avoiding the speeches resistant to it.

Keywords:

State racism, negrophobia, Haiti, Dominican Republic

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Rodrigues Pinto, S. (2018). State Racism and Anti-Haitianism in the Construction of Dominican Nationalism. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (10), 45–70. https://doi.org/10.5354/mrd.v0i10.48847
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