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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
- noun Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
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- noun The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.
- noun The belief that one race is superior to all others.
- noun Prejudice or discrimination based upon race.
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- noun discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
- noun the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
Etymologies
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September 17th, 2009 6: 40 pm ET racism is a word blacks use to get attention when they think their backs are against the wall or not getting their way. just like charles rangel tried to pull last week. or jimmie carter tried a day or two ago petiful people we have. mike, ,tn
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But more important is this: We can oversimplify the term racism but we can also oversimplify the term power.
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The term racism is associated with invidious racial discrimination and the theories of white racial supremacy that supports them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor May be Wrong About Race, but She is No Racist: 2009
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The term racism is associated with invidious racial discrimination and the theories of white racial supremacy that supports them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor May be Wrong About Race, but She is No Racist: 2009
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I've heard the term racism thrown around more in the past week or two than I have since the 1960s or '70s.
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The term racism is associated with invidious racial discrimination and the theories of white racial supremacy that supports them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor May be Wrong About Race, but She is No Racist: 2009
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COOPER: I think too many folks in the media throw around the term racism far too often.
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COOPER: I think too many folks in the media throw around the term racism far too often.
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It is neither, and Barack Obama's victory is a lesson in how the word racism has drifted beyond its core meaning into something more calisthenic than proactive.
The End Of Racism? 2008
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NB: The use of the term racism is in its more general sense to include discrimination against identifiable groups of people.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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The US National Institutes of Health describes scientific racism “an organised system of misusing science to promote false scientific beliefs in which dominant racial and ethnic groups are perceived as being superior”.
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss David Pegg 2024
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Words with the same meaning
- Anglophobia
- Jim Crow
- Jim Crow law
- Russophobia
- abhorrence
- abomination
- anti-Semitism
- antipathy
- apartheid
- aversion
- bias
- bigotry
- black power
- black supremacy
- chauvinism
- class consciousness
- class distinction
- class hatred
- class prejudice
- class war
- color bar
- color line
- despitefulness
- detestation
- discrimination
- dislike
- execration
- fascism
- hate
- hatred
- illiberality
- know-nothingism
- loathing
- male chauvinist
- malevolence
- malice
- malignity
- minority prejudice
- misandry
- misanthropy
- misogyny
- odium
- one-sidedness
- partiality
- prejudice
- race hatred
- race prejudice
- race snobbery
- racial discrimination
- racialism
- red-baiting
- repugnance
- segregation
- sex discrimination
- sexism
- social barrier
- social discrimination
- spite
- spitefulness
- superpatriotism
- ultranationalism
- unfairness
- vials of hate
- vials of wrath
- white power
- white supremacy
- xenophobia
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Cross-references
- Civil Rights Movement
- Eurocentrism
- Rainbow Coalition
- White supremacy
- affirmative action
- anti-semitism
- apartheid
- black is beautiful
- cultural anthropology
- cultural relativism
- ethnic majority
- ethnic minority
- ethnocentrism
- eugenics
- hate crime
- historical particularism
- intolerance
- multiculturalism
- nationalism
- political minority
- social Darwinism
- supremacist
- tolerance
- unilineal evolution
- xenophobia
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