I'm not really trying to start yet another discussion on this. But I did want to cut an paste yesterday's article from La Vida section, "Pieles Devaluadas", in the Listin Diario, in case those of you interested in this topic missed it. Make sure to pass it on...
http://www.listindiario.com.do/antes/agosto04/090804/cuerpos/vida/vid1.htm
It's in Spanish. For those who can't read it basically expresses the sentiments of those who are in fact marginalized and shows how this affects them in a very real and cotidian sense. Sonia Pierre, ED of MUDHA, an awesome org doing some good work, speaks in this article...Sad thing is that even when she came to the states she still suffered from the same discrimination at the hands of a US Dominican working in customs.
Some Key Quotes:
1) El estudio realizado este a?o por el soci?logo y antrop?logo, Carlos And?jar, titulado: ??el tema racial en la Rep?blica Dominicana??, plantea que ??en la sociedad dominicana el prejuicio racial, la discriminaci?n y el racismo han permeado la vida p?blica y las actitudes de los individuos en su accionar personal, que en muchos casos, no son conscientemente asumidos, lo que vuelve m?s complicado este enmara?ado y dif?cil tema??.
Translation: the sociologist and anthropologist discusses his study of which his main conclusion is that these issues do exists and are permeated life in such away that they are not even consciously about it. A list of his other conclusions are listed in the article.
2) Ashindi Maxton, del Goldman School of Public Policy, de la Universidad de Berckeley, Estados Unidos...
The dolls study was performed in DR by a student from UC Berkeley. The results verify what I have been saying all along...we need to change the DIALOGUE of how we talk about blackness among Dominicans. For a country so open and so willing to mix it is just plain ironic.
3) existen suficientes evidencias, de que en la educaci?n que se imparte a los ni?os dominicanos, existen elementos racistas.
There are racial elements that are engrained even in the education curriculum.
4) ??Los ni?os confirmaron que la gradaci?n de la pigmentaci?n de la piel va determinando cierto rango discriminatorio en la sociedad dominicana: mientras m?s se oscurece, m?s se acerca a los niveles bajos de la pir?mide ocupacional. Los blancos y de pelo m?s lacio, ascienden a los niveles m?s altos y de rango mayor??, revela el informe.
In another study, there was a categorization of skin tone/hair texture with occupation and yes the expected socio-economic dynamic is seen here that has been discussed ad nauseum.
5) Denial of entry to "exclusive" places on the basis of skin color.
http://www.listindiario.com.do/antes/agosto04/090804/cuerpos/vida/vid1.htm
It's in Spanish. For those who can't read it basically expresses the sentiments of those who are in fact marginalized and shows how this affects them in a very real and cotidian sense. Sonia Pierre, ED of MUDHA, an awesome org doing some good work, speaks in this article...Sad thing is that even when she came to the states she still suffered from the same discrimination at the hands of a US Dominican working in customs.
Some Key Quotes:
1) El estudio realizado este a?o por el soci?logo y antrop?logo, Carlos And?jar, titulado: ??el tema racial en la Rep?blica Dominicana??, plantea que ??en la sociedad dominicana el prejuicio racial, la discriminaci?n y el racismo han permeado la vida p?blica y las actitudes de los individuos en su accionar personal, que en muchos casos, no son conscientemente asumidos, lo que vuelve m?s complicado este enmara?ado y dif?cil tema??.
Translation: the sociologist and anthropologist discusses his study of which his main conclusion is that these issues do exists and are permeated life in such away that they are not even consciously about it. A list of his other conclusions are listed in the article.
2) Ashindi Maxton, del Goldman School of Public Policy, de la Universidad de Berckeley, Estados Unidos...
The dolls study was performed in DR by a student from UC Berkeley. The results verify what I have been saying all along...we need to change the DIALOGUE of how we talk about blackness among Dominicans. For a country so open and so willing to mix it is just plain ironic.
3) existen suficientes evidencias, de que en la educaci?n que se imparte a los ni?os dominicanos, existen elementos racistas.
There are racial elements that are engrained even in the education curriculum.
4) ??Los ni?os confirmaron que la gradaci?n de la pigmentaci?n de la piel va determinando cierto rango discriminatorio en la sociedad dominicana: mientras m?s se oscurece, m?s se acerca a los niveles bajos de la pir?mide ocupacional. Los blancos y de pelo m?s lacio, ascienden a los niveles m?s altos y de rango mayor??, revela el informe.
In another study, there was a categorization of skin tone/hair texture with occupation and yes the expected socio-economic dynamic is seen here that has been discussed ad nauseum.
5) Denial of entry to "exclusive" places on the basis of skin color.