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anti-Haitianism

anti-Haitianism noun: prejudice or social discrimination against Haitians.

Noun

anti-Haitianism (uncountable)

  1. Prejudice or social discrimination against Haitians.
    • The context of Dominican elections during the 1990s was one of anti-Haitianism2001, David Howard, Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic, Signal Books, →ISBN, page 157
    • 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 […]2004, Richard Lee Turits, Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 177

Origin of anti-Haitianism

From anti- + Haitian + -ism.

Questions about anti-Haitianism

What does anti-Haitianism mean?
Anti-Haitianism means prejudice or social discrimination against Haitians.
What part of speech is anti-Haitianism?
Anti-Haitianism is a noun.

Words near anti-Haitianism in the dictionary

  1. anti-griddles
  2. anti-gun
  3. anti-hacker
  4. anti-hackers
  5. anti-haemorrhagic
  6. anti-Haitianism
  7. anti-Halloween
  8. anti-haul
  9. anti-hauls
  10. anti-Hegelian
  11. anti-Hegelians

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