Black, I?

"Juana" got used to tell you that the "black is meal of pork". Although he tries to hide his features, alisadoras creams, clear powders, extensions and contact lenses from to achieve his dream of becoming a "passable" for the society in which they live. Often vocean you the phrase "had to be prieta" and every time the listener feels that the "chelitos" lounge and the care that puts in not taking much sun, have very little served.

As "juana", much of Dominicans reject his African descent which manifests itself in a clear desire to be white, situation that arises, according to various statements, due to the traffic of slaves and discrimination and prejudices racial.

The heroine of this story insists that his great-grandfather (on the part of mother)'s mother was of Spanish origin, that what happened was that it "he alocó" and was married to a "morenito" and there was that "damaged" the race, but u000aIf not for that "mistake" she would have been "blanquita" with "good" hair and "finite" nose, but is going to do if you are already stick ta dao´.

Rejection
according to the historian Celsa Albert, the problem of rejection to the black in the Dominican heritage is in the superstructure where they only concentrating whatever Spanish and colonization both blacks and indigenous people were treated as inferior.

"Dominicans and Dominican are victims of this process and have not released, although there are a large part to this released or in the process of leaving the superficiality.

The majority of the people is Afro-descendant and we could say that all are because the culture has no color and our origins feed on three elements that are Spanish, taino and African", finds Albert.

The process of "auto-desvalorización" Dominicans arises due to that during the colonial period the u000aprovisions on "the color of skin", people, imposed by the code black Caroline rambling be black out one condemns, what part of the way of thinking and evaluate to.

Document laws ensured that blacks were inferior and had to play "hard and practical work" because his intelligence did not give more.

, in the article entitled "Racial prejudice", written in 1993, the laws of the code were pursuing two purposes. The first strip to the negroafricano of their culture to be submitted to the designs of his master and make that the patterns of conduct of the European assume. The second was goal inculcate the belief that it was less than the white, the black slave bringing exploitation was more secure.

In addition to the era of colonization, other scholars argue that the current idea of identity is reinforced during the Trujillo dictatorship, u000aDominican and extends the thinking of the "refinement of race".

Dictator reinforced the Spanish vision of Dominican society, forgetting the 'half-blood' nature of the majority of the population. The obsession of Trujillo ' launder ' race, awarded him the title of 'Defender of Dominican identity'.

Auto-odio
terms used during the colonial era, and in later times, have been derogatory and why people reject them. "Black" has been used with negative adjectives that, of course, make people not want to accept the inheritance.

"You have pity people because they have problems of identity, because they don't know what they are and not to assume they won't know why fight," says Albert.

Then analyze the expressions used by the majority of the Dominicans, it shows that positive adjectives are used mostly to refer more frequently to the u000athe negatives for the black and white

In his book "Women and gauge - virtue," Celsa Albert emphasizes that the adjective 'black' has always had a pejorative catchment which dates back to the origins of the language.

Is associated with evil and crime, while white is symbol of the light and innocence.

Blanquización
disregard for the black, is one of the collective defects of Dominicans to 'combat' origins tend dyed blond hair, use smooth and put contact lenses color, all of this to "fit" into which the majority accepted as 'beautiful'.

"In any case tell you who you are 'apparent', because you look like a target and that is the height of the devaluation.

The first time that left my only book the Central Bank and the Popular people of dark color at the front of the cash registers, no other Bank was people who were not of phenotype clear or that are u000athey could be considered "clear Indians", express Albert.

Historian said that television channels any news program, with rare exceptions, in front of cameras to a woman of dark-coloured and African traits: "there is only an acceptance to the mulata of skin and dominant features white, if they are black or mulatto black dominant traits generally are behind the scenes".

According to Marines basil, student of Engineering Industrial of the Universidad Autónoma in Santo Domingo (UASD), it seems that the parameter of good image producers have "not going with the style of black people, which is due to the lack of identity that has the Dominican".

Cesar Mella psychiatrist, claimed in the article racial discrimination or racism?, published in the newspaper today by Angela Peña, that non-acceptance "spent millions and millions of pesos per month in salons of beauty and not accepting" u000a"our fat lips, our big boobs, our swollen buttocks and our inflated faces is becoming millionaires to plastic surgeons".

Recovery
once the Central Electoral Board (JCE) submitted to the Senate Bill that would change the term "Indian" for "mulatto", are still some doubts.

According to Celsa Albert, the word 'mulatto' has nothing to do with the Mule and the Mule: "It is the residue of silver, the darkest is called mulatto is why the Spanish used the term to designate, in a derogatory way of course".

Whatever the outcome of the Bill, embarrassing this situation is that in the XXI century in the country, the color of the skin appears to be the more important to define ethnically a subject feature.

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