Traidores a la patria: Reconfiguring the nation through (un)patriotic discourse in the Dominican Republic.

In June 2020 anti‐racist activists in the Dominican Republic holding a vigil for George Floyd, who was brutally murdered by the police in the United States, were assaulted by right‐wing ultranationalists and detained by the national police. An event that was meant to express transnational solidarity was seen as a threat by ultranationalists who over the past decades supported anti‐Haitian and anti‐Black state policies that have contested the rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent to Dominican nationality and citizenship. This article explores how through the Dominican state's refashioning of the legal and juridical apparatus, as well as the support of self‐proclaimed Dominican nationalists, interpretations of Dominican national belonging are being contested and reimagined through the use of words such as traidor (traitor) and haitiano (Haitian). These terms code proper nationalism and Dominicanness as mixed‐race, Hispanic, and anti‐Haitian, as well as pro‐Dominican sovereignty, therefore against international human rights organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En junio de 2020, activistas antirracistas en la República Dominicana que celebraban una vigilia para George Floyd, quien fue brutalmente asesinado por la policía en los Estados Unidos, fueron agredidos por ultranacionalistas de derecha y detenidos por la policía nacional. Un evento que pretendía expresar solidaridad transnacional fue visto como una amenaza por los ultranacionalistas que durante las últimas décadas apoyaron políticas estatales antihaitianas y antinegras que han cuestionado los derechos de los dominicanos de ascendencia haitiana a la nacionalidad y ciudadanía dominicana. Este artículo explora cómo a través de la modificacion del aparato legal y jurídico por parte del Estado dominicano, así como el apoyo de los autoproclamados nacionalistas dominicanos, las interpretaciones de la pertenencia nacional dominicana están siendo cuestionadas y reimaginadas mediante el uso de palabras como traidor y haitiano. Estos términos codifican el nacionalismo y la dominicanidad como mestiza, hispana y antihaitiana, así como pro soberanía dominicana, por lo tanto en contra de las organizaciones internacionales de derechos humanos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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