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WEB Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey and Booker T Washington, etc already knew bout this shyt in the 1800s

yet we never learned smh

A second possible explanation for variation in Latino-Black relations is that the Latino population growth in many regions of the country, like the South, is largely driven by the arrival of immigrant Latinos whom previous work suggests are largely antagonistic toward the settled Black populations in these contexts (Marrow, 2011; McClain et al., 2006; Mindiola et al., 2003). In their study of Latino-Black relations in Houston, Mindiola et al. (2003) showed that Latino immigrants held more negative views about Blacks than their U.S.-born counterparts. In a quantitative analysis of Latino-Black relations in Durham, North Carolina, McClain et al. (2006) contend that Latino immigrants’ inclination to engage in anti-Black stereotyping can be attributed to country of origin socialization because they “bring views of the racial hierarchies in their own countries with them to the United States” (2006, p. 581). Although additional findings from McClain et al. (2006) suggest that these negative stereotypes do not dissipate with greater time spent in the United States among the immigrant generation (Table 2), other research finds that such antipathies decrease among later generations even as levels of perceived competition increase (Morín et al., 2011). However, qualitative and quantitative findings from an in-depth study of white-Black-Latino relations in New Orleans, Louisiana suggests that increased social contact between Latinos and Blacks serves as a major avenue for bringing about perceptions of commonality (Wilkinson, 2015). On the whole, results indicate an ongoing debate about the effect of Latino immigrant identity and acculturation on views of Blacks and that the nature of Latino-Black relations is incredibly context dependent.

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Scholars Ask Why Latinos View Blacks Poorly
July 12, 2006 | :

by Christina Asquith

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Latino immigrants often hold negative views of African-Americans, which they most likely brought with them from their more-segregated Latin American countries, a new Duke University study shows.

The study also found that sharing neighborhoods with Blacks reinforced Latino’s negatives views, and reinforces their feelings that they have “more in common with Whites” — although Whites did not feel the same connection towards the Latinos.

“We were actually quite depressed by what we found. The presence of these attitudes doesn’t augur well for relations between these two groups,” says Dr. Paula D. McClain, a professor of political science at Duke University, who led the study along with nine graduate students.

The study, “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans,” is based on a 2003 survey of 500 Hispanic, Black and White residents in Durham, N.C., a city with one of the fastest-growing Hispanic population.

This study reiterated a similar conclusion reached a decade earlier out of Houston, which found that U.S.-born and foreign-born Latinos expressed a more negative view of African-Americans than Blacks expressed of Latinos. In both studies, it’s interesting to note, Blacks did not reciprocate the negative feelings.

However, Duke’s study found that the more educated the Hispanic respondent, and the more social contact they had with Blacks, the less likely they were to harbor negative stereotypes.

“It was interesting that the greater social contact with Blacks, the less they had negative stereotypes,” says Rob Brown, assistant dean of students for Emory College. “I think that’s a pivotal variable, especially for Latino immigrants who are learning English and who have not had much contact with Blacks, who are unfortunately influenced by the American lens and vocabulary of race and what White America has constructed in terms of stereotypes of Backs.”

McClain focused her study on the South because Latinos have only appeared in significant numbers there in the past 10-15 years. Recent and limited research suggests that migration has been encouraged by the 1994 North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, global economy and an expanding market for unskilled, low-wage workers.

In 1990, Latinos made up 1 percent of the population of the city of Durham. However by 2001, they represented 8.6 percent, even as the city’s overall population also grew. The majority of Durham’s Latino population is from Mexico.

This increase prompted McClain to examine what difference Hispanic integration into the South was going to make on the Black/White dynamic.

“No section of the country has been more rigidly defined along a Black-White racial divide [than the South]. How these new Latino immigrants situated themselves vis-à-vis Black Americans has profound implications for the social and political fabric of the South,” McClain writes.

Among the results: almost 59 percent of Latino immigrants reported feeling that “few or almost no Blacks are hard working.” One third said that Blacks are “hard to get along with.” And 57 percent found that “few or no Blacks could be trusted.”

When Whites were asked the same questions, fewer than 10 percent responded with similar negative attitudes towards Blacks. McClain says that finding came as a positive surprise, and prompted her to conclude that Hispanics were not adopting their negative views from Whites.

The study concluded that most likely Latinos are bringing negative views with them from their home countries. Previous research on race and Latin America found that Blacks “represent the bottom rungs of society” and Duke researchers surmise Latino immigrants “might bring prejudicial attitudes with them,” the study states.
 
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