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Racism in Spain (Spanish: Racismo en España) can be traced back to any historical era, during which social, economic and political conflicts have efficiently been justified by racial differences, be it in the form of racism as an ideology or in the form of racism as simple attitudes or behaviors towards those who are perceived as being different.
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
In the 1990s, anthropologist-linguist Jane H. Hill of the University of Arizona suggested that "Mock Spanish" is a form of racist discourse. [5] Hill asserted, with anecdotal evidence, that "middle- and upper-income, college-educated whites" casually use Spanish-influenced language in way that native Spanish speakers were likely to find insulting. [2]
Author and sociologist Raúl Pérez has written a book called “The Souls of White Jokes,” which, he says, aims to The post ‘The Souls of White Jokes’ aims to show how racist humor feeds ...
A court in Valencia, Spain, has ordered eight month prison sentences for three men who made racist remarks and gestures toward Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. at a La Liga match against Valencia CF ...
Perceptions of ethnic jokes are ambivalent. Christie Davies gives examples that, while many find them racist and offensive, for some people jokes poking fun at one's own ethnicity may be considered acceptable. He points out that ethnic jokes are often found funny exactly for the same reason they sound racist for others; it happens when they ...
During his 12-minute set, Hinchcliffe made racist comments about Mexicans crossing the border and jokes about Jewish and Black people that used antisemitic and racist tropes.
"Latino" is the umbrella term for people of Latin American descent that in recent years has supplanted the more imprecise and bureaucratic designation "Hispanic." [ 1 ] Part of the mystery and the difficulty of comprehension lie in the fact that the territory called Latin America is not homogeneous in nature or culture. [ 2 ]