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Employing a designation used during the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the Spanish colonists called Muslims in the Philippines “Moros,” a pejorative term, and the Muslims appear to have called themselves Islam.
Apr 20, 2019 · The following references to the term by Spanish anthropologists and sociologists qualify its use and/or perception as generally pejorative: "Moro" is Spanish for Moor and is normally used as a derogatory term for people of Arabic origin. Tying Racism in El Ejido to Spanish and European Politics, Prof. Manuel J Caro Cabrera (Universidad de Sevilla)
Dec 28, 2020 · After presenting a working definition of derogatory language and describing its prevalence, we discuss the social functions it serves and the role it plays in identity protection, in legitimizing group hierarchies, and in establishing and enforcing group norms.
- Carmen Cervone, Martha Augoustinos, Anne Maass
- 2021
May 27, 2020 · Introduction. Slurring is a type of hate speech meant to harm individuals simply because of their group membership. It not only offends but also causes oppression. Slurs have some strange properties. Target groups can reclaim slurs, so as to express solidarity and pride.
Jun 8, 2020 · These are ethnic terms like gitano ‘Romani’ and moro ‘Moor’, terms for professions with behavioural stereotypes, such as camionero ‘truck-driver’ and portera ‘doorwoman’, and even terms for age groups, such as viejo/vieja ‘old man/woman’ and adolescente ‘teenager’ (see below). Many other languages (see Sect. 2 below for ...
- Elena Castroviejo, Elena Castroviejo, Katherine Fraser, Agustín Vicente, Agustín Vicente
- 2021
Dec 5, 2009 · I examine how the term “Moro,” which Spanish and American colonizers and Christian Filipinos used in a derogatory sense to refer to Philippine Muslims, was transformed and transcoded by the latter and now used in a positive way to refer to their identity.
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Jan 4, 2021 · Discrimination in the morally neutral, objective sense is hereinafter referred to as “distinction” (between individuals). It was US President Andrew Johnson who, in 1866, made the first recorded use of the word “discrimination” in its morally pejorative sense (Banton 1994: 6).
