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Haiti & The Dominican Republic: An Island Divided

16 Nhwɛso • 07/25/26
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⁣Haiti & The Dominican Republic: An Island Divided

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Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue: modern day Haiti) is the first place the colonizers imported Africans as slaves.

“Haiti is the Foundation of the Black Experience in the Americas.”

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“Haitians are proud to be Black.”
“Dominicans are proud to be of a mixed-race, Spanish ancestry society.”—The “Me No Black” society.

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dr is a mulatto nation -- a bout 70%. they def practice what they preach over there

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Same thing with Brazil. Mixed-race, multi-racial mulattos are the dominant racial group in Brazil. Brazil's mixed-race population, officially categorized as pardo (brown), makes up 45%-50% of the country, totaling roughly 92.1 million people according to the 2023 census. This marks the first time in modern census data that mixed-race individuals form the largest single racial group in Brazil, surpassing the white population. Census Breakdown and Demographics in Brazil: Pardo (Mixed-Race): 45.3% (92.1 million people)White (Branco): 43.5% (88.2 million people)Black (Preto): 10.2% (20.6 million people)Indigenous: 0.8% (1.7 million people)Asian (Amarelo): 0.4% (850,000+ people).

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@Kwabena Ofori Osei: Appreciate the numbers, I've gotten the sense that Brazil's Blackness -- demographically speaking -- may be more exaggerated post-blanquiamento

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@T. Y. Adodo: It is. We love to claim Brazil is the 2nd most Black populace country on earth, outside of Nigeria; and Brazil is the most most Black populace country in the western hemisphere. But the Black population in Brazil is mostly half-caste, biracial, mulatto, mixed-race multiracial individuals.
The standard of beauty in Brazil is white to near white biracial multiracial people. Their media portrays mostly white to near white biracial multiracial people. Brazil is a very anti-Black country, where the goal for a brown to dark skin person is to marry a white person in hopes of having a biracial mulatto child, to “Better The Race.”
Brazil is a white, mulatto, biracial, multiracial nation.
Brazil is not a Black nation.

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@Kwabena Ofori Osei: It is because the most enslaved Afrikans were sent there. However, the full effects of blanquiamento haven't been factored into the 21st century demographic reality (perhaps even mid-20th century)

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Indio:
“By 19 century, we didn’t have any indigenous peoples on the island, like other parts of South America. So we came up with (invented) the word “Indo” to negate (masked) our African ancestry and identity and to become something else.”
—Dominican Republican Anthropologist

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