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Representations of colonialism and racism in Portugal: The role of luso-tropicalism and historical defensiveness

Authors: Meuer, Felix;

Representations of colonialism and racism in Portugal: The role of luso-tropicalism and historical defensiveness

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Research shows that history telling serves a purpose of maintaining hierarchical structures within national groups to benefit a historical perpetrator group and disadvantage a historically victimized group. In the case of colonialism, this often leads to different versions of how colonialism is told. The present study investigated the effects of positive vs. negative representations of Portuguese colonialism on the endorsement of biological and cultural racism. Additionally, it also explored if the impact of historical representations of Portuguese colonialism on racism occurred via historical defensiveness mechanisms. Moreover, the moderating role of luso-tropicalism beliefs on racism and historical defensiveness was explored. 221 Portuguese participants were randomly allocated to one of three experimental conditions: positive representation of Portuguese colonialism vs. negative representation of Portuguese colonialism vs. control. Results revealed that biological racism was higher in the negative representation condition whereas no differences were found for cultural racism. Contrary to the hypothesized, historical defensiveness mechanisms did not mediate the impact of representations of colonialism on racism, and luso-tropicalism did not moderate the effect of representations of colonialism on historical defensiveness, biological racism, and cultural racism.

A investigação mostra que a narração da história serve o objetivo de manter estruturas hierárquicas dentro dos grupos nacionais para beneficiar um grupo historicamente perpetrador e prejudicar um grupo historicamente vitimizado. No caso do colonialismo, isto conduz frequentemente a diferentes versões da forma como o colonialismo é contado. O presente estudo investigou os efeitos das representações positivas e negativas do colonialismo português na aceitação do racismo biológico e cultural. Adicionalmente, também se explorou se o impacto das representações históricas do colonialismo português no racismo ocorreu através de mecanismos de defesa histórica. Além disso, foi explorado o papel moderador das crenças luso-tropicalistas no racismo e na defesa histórica. 221 participantes portugueses foram aleatoriamente distribuídos por uma de três condições experimentais: representações positivas do colonialismo português vs. representações negativas do colonialismo português vs. controlo. Os resultados revelaram que o racismo biológico foi mais elevado na condição de representações negativas, não tendo sido encontradas diferenças no racismo cultural. Contrariamente à hipótese formulada, os mecanismos de defesa histórica não mediaram o impacto das representações do colonialismo no racismo, e este efeito também não foi moderado pelas crenças no luso-tropicalismo.

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Portugal
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Luso-tropicalism, Biological racism, Narrativas do colonialismo, Representations of history, Defesa histórica, Experiment, Narrativas da história, Representations of colonialism, Historical defensiveness, Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Psicologia, Racismo biológico, Cultural racism, Luso-tropicalismo, Experimento

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