Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic

Alarcón, Antonio V. Menéndez; Howard, David

doi:10.2307/3089919

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“…This exclusion is arguably more severe in the Dominican Republic, where African features are apparent among much of the population. Its capital, Santo Domingo, was a major slave port, yet Africans are conspicuously absent from the national mestizaje narratives (Candelario 2007;Howard 2001;Roth 2012). On the other hand, mestizaje ideologies in Brazil and Cuba stressed the inclusion of African elements, as well as those of Europeans and Amerindians (Telles 2004;Bailey 2009;de la Fuente 2001;de la Fuente and Bailey 2021).…”

Section: Mestizajementioning

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Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Latin America

Telles,

Bailey,

Davoudpour

et al. 2023

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This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). Unlike censuses, LAPOP data offer a more consistent ethnoracial scheme across countries and a unique interviewer-rated skin color measure. Our study shows that black and indigenous populations and those with darker skin color experience educational, income, and occupational disadvantages, even after controlling for their social origins. However, inequality and hierarchical ordering of Afro-descendants, indigenous peoples, mestizos, whites, and others vary across countries. We include an extended examination of educational inequality in Brazil, the regions largest country. The chapter concludes with an exploration of public policy approaches to address black and indigenous disadvantage across Latin America while also highlighting the case of Brazil, where targeted antiracism policy is most advanced.

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Section: Mestizajementioning

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Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Latin America

Telles,

Bailey,

Davoudpour

et al. 2023

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“…Modern Dominican identity is largely premised on the idea that Haitians are culturally, racially, religiously, and linguistically distinct from Dominicans (Moya Pons, 1995). Since the early 20th century, Dominican politicians have embedded a racialized anti-Haitianism into the country's culture; emphasizing Dominicans as Spanish, Christian, and white, and Haitians as African, pagan, and black (Hall, 2017;Howard, 2001). A 2014 constitutional amendment illustrates this.…”

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Traveling a Hard Road: Rites of Passage to Adulthood for Females of Haitian Descent Living in the Dominican Republic

Salusky

2021

Journal of Adolescent Research

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This article examines the rites of passage for poor girls of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic. In the Dominican context, preparation for and the transition to wife and mother historically served as an important rite of passage to an adult identity. Industrialization and the global discourse surrounding young motherhood increasingly challenges this culturally sanctioned practice. No research has examined how perceptions around rites of passage to an adult female identity are evolving across generations within the Spanish Caribbean. The author conducted an ethnographic project that included the use of in-depth life history interviews with 42 participants. She interrogates the narratives of three generations of adolescent girls and women of Haitian descent using modified grounded theory to (a) describe current culturally acceptable pathways to becoming an adult woman and (b) examine shifts taking place across time regarding acceptable pathways to womanhood. Findings suggest that, increasingly, younger generations no longer perceive marriage and motherhood as the singular rite of passage to adulthood. Yet, additional skills and characteristics that the participants identified as important to effectively transition to an adult role are either very difficult for the poor to attain, or are acquired through the experience of marriage and motherhood.

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“…Dominican Americans who have developed a racial identity as Black in the United States-perhaps in addition to their ethnic identity as Dominican-may see themselves as more similar to African Americans. This process is likely influenced by the historically contingent meanings associated with Blackness in the Dominican Republic, where the system of racial classification has been influenced by Spanish colonialism, sharing an island with Haiti, and transnational contact with Dominicans living in the United States (e.g., Howard, 2001;Sagás, 2000;Simmons, 2009).…”

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Perceived discrimination, categorization threat, and Dominican Americans’ attitudes toward African Americans.

Wiley

2019

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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This study examined whether members of one racial or ethnic minority group (i.e., Dominican Americans) express fewer positive attitudes toward members of a different racial or ethnic minority group (i.e., African Americans)-with which they do not identify-when they perceive that their group faces discrimination on a basis that categorizes them together with that other group (i.e., race). Method: Ninety-nine Dominican-American undergraduate students (M age ϭ 20.23, SD ϭ 1.64; 53% women, 18% first generation) were randomly assigned to read a brief article stating that discrimination against Dominicans was based either on language or immigrant status (n ϭ 48) or race (n ϭ 51). Afterward they reported their attitudes toward and similarity to African Americans. Results: Dominican-American undergraduates who perceived that they were dissimilar to African Americans expressed fewer positive attitudes toward the group when told that Dominicans face discrimination because of race as opposed to because of their language and immigrant status. Conclusions: The study suggests that perceived discrimination from White Americans can induce categorization threat and influence intraminority relations. Members of 1 racial or ethnic minority group can express fewer positive attitudes toward members of another group with which they do not feel similar when they perceive that members of both groups face discrimination based on a shared category.

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Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic

Cited by 44 publications

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Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Latin America

Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Latin America

Traveling a Hard Road: Rites of Passage to Adulthood for Females of Haitian Descent Living in the Dominican Republic

Perceived discrimination, categorization threat, and Dominican Americans’ attitudes toward African Americans.

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