{"id":15105,"date":"2011-07-26T04:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T04:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15105"},"modified":"2011-07-26T04:35:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T04:35:58","slug":"inclusionary-discrimination-pigmentocracy-and-patriotism-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15105","title":{"rendered":"Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Political Psychology<\/a>
\nVolume 22, Issue 4<\/a> (December 2001)
\npages 827\u2013851
\nDOI: 10.1111\/0162-895X.00264<\/a><\/p>\n

Jim Sidanius<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesilernis Pena<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Sawyer<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

This study explored the nature of racial hierarchy and the connection between racial identity and Dominican patriotism using a questionnaire given to an in situ<\/a><\/em> sample in the Dominican Republic<\/a>. The analyses compared the contradictory expectations of the \u201cracial democracy\u201d (or \u201cIberian<\/a> exceptionalism\u201d) thesis and social dominance theory. Results showed that despite the very high level of racial intermarriage in the Dominican Republic, there was strong evidence of a \u201c<\/strong>pigmentocracy<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d or group-based social hierarchy based largely on skin color.<\/strong> Furthermore, despite a slight tendency for people to give slightly higher status ratings to their own \u201cracial\u201d category than were given to them by members of other \u201cracial\u201d categories, this pigmentocracy was highly consensual across the racial hierarchy. These results were consistent with the expectations of social dominance theory. However, in contrast to similar analyses in the United States and Israel, these Dominican findings showed no evidence that members of different \u201cracial\u201d categories had different levels of patriotic attachment to the nation. Also in contrast to recent American findings, there was no evidence that Dominican patriotism was positively associated with anti-black racism, social dominance orientation, negative affect toward other racial groups, or ethnocentrism<\/a>, regardless of the \u201cracial\u201d category one belonged to. These latter results were consistent with the racial democracy thesis. The theoretical implications of these somewhat conflicting findings are discussed.<\/p>\n

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Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic Political Psychology Volume 22, Issue 4 (December 2001) pages 827\u2013851 DOI: 10.1111\/0162-895X.00264 Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Yesilernis Pena Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science University of California, Los Angeles This study explored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8,26,394],"tags":[3468,620,6987,6986,6988],"class_list":["post-15105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-dominican-republic","tag-jim-sidanius","tag-mark-q-sawyer","tag-political-psychology","tag-yesilernis-pena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}