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Racism
Race and Racism Problems of race and race relations—particularly issues concerning the status of African‐Americans—have played a prominent role in American political life since the colonial era. Given the place of the Supreme Court in the political structure, it was almost... Read more |
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multiculturalism
multiculturalism or cultural pluralism, a term describing the coexistence of many cultures in a locality, without any one culture dominating the region. By making the broadest range of human differences acceptable to the largest number of people, multiculturalism seeks to overcome racism,... Read more |
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Racialization
Racialization CRITIQUING “RACIALIZATION” RETHINKING RACIALIZATION BIBLIOGRAPHY The concept of racialization has developed over time. In his 1989 book Racism, sociologist Robert Miles described racialization as “ Read more |
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Boris Kodjoe
Boris Kodjoe 1973– Actor, model Taught to Believe in Self Graduated to Supermodel Committed to Erasing Racism Sources From top ranked tennis player to sought-after supermodel to budding Hollywood star, Boris Kodjoe has seemingl... Read more |
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Anti-Catholicism
ANTI-CATHOLICISM ANTI-CATHOLICISM. Bigotry against Roman Catholics, as well as the ideas that have rationalized such bigotry, have long been elements in North American politics and popular culture. Like racism and anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism is a fluid, international phenomenon buttressed by... Read more |
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Tuskegee Syphilis Study RACISM PERSEVERANCE SCIENTIFIC VALUE A LESSON FOR RESEARCH ETHICS BIBLIOGRAPHY From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) sponsored an observational study of syphilis in black men in Macon County, Alabama. This trial has come to be known as the... Read more |
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Ageism
AGEISM The term ageism refers to a deep and profound prejudice against the elderly (Butler). In simple terms, ageism occurs when people stereotype others based on old age. Ageism occurs throughout society in varying degrees, in television, advertising, movies, stores, hospitals, and jobs. Ageism... Read more |
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Steve Biko
Steve Biko (Steven Biko) , 1946-77, South African political leader. A medical student, he founded (1969) a black student organization and developed a national "black consciousness" movement to combat racism and apartheid policies. Arrested in 1977, he died in police custody, prompting... Read more |
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Black power movement
Black Power BIBLIOGRAPHY The Black Power movement is one of the most misunderstood and understudied protest movements in American history (Jeffries 2006). Many whites believed that Black Power was synonymous with violence and black racism. Some black leaders viewed the movement as separatist,... Read more |
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chauvinism
chauvinism , word derived from the name of Nicolas Chauvin, a soldier of the First French Empire. Used first for a passionate admiration of Napoleon, it now expresses exaggerated and aggressive nationalism. As a social phenomenon, chauvinism is essentially modern, becoming marked in the era of acute... Read more |
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Racism
Racism, an ideology that views “race” as a...sees some races as inherently inferior. Racism in America has functioned as a means by...engendered fears that hardened prejudice into racism. As Virginia legalized slavery in the 1670s... |
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racism
racism According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term describes...only to the 1930s. There are two attitudes towards the concept of racism: one says that ‘racism’ is usefully applied only where it is derived from a perception of race... |
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Race and Racism
Race and Racism Problems of race and race relations—particularly issues concerning the status of African‐Americans—have played a prominent... |
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nationalism, rise of
...although not always, closely aligned with racism, the belief in the superiority of a particular...race over all others. Nationalism and racism were synonymous in Germany, Italy...diverse origin and make-up, a reverse racism fed nationalist sentiments—hatred... |
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Garrison, William Lloyd
...1840 to found competing organizations. Yet his opposition to racism won him strong support among northern free blacks, particularly...a preeminent position among those who challenged slavery and racism in the Antebellum Era.See also African Americans; Brown... |
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Wright, Richard
...Uncle Tom's Children (1938), four novellas about southern racism, won wide acclaim. His best‐known novel, Native Son (1940...novel, Native Son evoked the realities of black oppression and racism in the urban North. Increasingly disillusioned with communism... |
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Douglass, Frederick
...slavery era quickly faded as reformers encountered entrenched racism in the Reconstruction Era South. As the North's commitment...Like many of his generation, he had attributed the evils of racism to the institution of slavery. The post–Civil War Era exposed... |
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American Dilemma, An
...African Americans primarily in their role as the victims of white racism rather than as full‐fledged participants in the creation...Nationalism; Civil Rights Movement; Democracy in America; Racism; Social Science; World War II.Bibliography David W. Southern... |
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Black Nationalism
...continued lack of material progress and the persistence of racism in American life. They also cited the beneficial effects on black self...Americans perceived a need to employ it against the forces of white racism and cultural diffusion.Bibliography Jeremiah Moses Wilson... |
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Anderson, Marian
...of the American Revolution from performing in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., an event that exposed the depth of racism in America. Her open‐air Lincoln Memorial concert that Easter, arranged by Eleanor Roosevelt and Secretary of the Interior... |
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racism
racism •chasm, spasm •enthusiasm • orgasm • sarcasm •ectoplasm • cytoplasm • iconoclasm •cataplasm • pleonasm • phantasm...monism • papism •verism • aneurysm • purism • Nazism •sexism • racism • paroxysm • autism •macrocosm • microcosm • bosom |
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racism, institutionalized
racism, institutionalized See INSTITUTIONALIZED DISCRIMINATION. |
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racialism
racialism, racism Racialism is the unequal treatment of...particular race (see RACE, SOCIOLOGY OF). Racism is the deterministic belief-system which...For an informative comparative study of racism in the United States and the Netherlands... |
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race
...classification has largely been abandoned.Racism is the spurious belief that human characteristics...determined by race or ethnic origin. Racism, like religious intolerance, has been the...scientific disregard for the concept of race, racism continued throughout the 20th ... |
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criminology, critical
...has allied itself with cultural studies in work around race, racism, and the state, and studies of youth subcultures. It has...example, prison regimes, deaths in police custody, sexism and racism in the criminal justice process. Despite this, the approach... |
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abysm
...sadism • nudism • Sufism • ageism •holism • cataclysm • monism • papism •verism • aneurysm • purism • Nazism •sexism • racism • paroxysm • autism •macrocosm • microcosm • bosom |
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backlash
back·lash / ˈbakˌlash/ • n. [in sing.] a strong and adverse reaction by a large number of people, esp. to a social or political development: a public backlash against racism. |
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biblical theology
...objections. Its emphasis on revelation and history, exodus and covenant, do not speak to burning issues of today, such as racism, the values of other religions, and the exploitation of natural resources. Feminist theologies have exposed the patriarchal... |
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chrisom
...sadism • nudism • Sufism • ageism •holism • cataclysm • monism • papism •verism • aneurysm • purism • Nazism •sexism • racism • paroxysm • autism •macrocosm • microcosm • bosom |
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cytoplasm
...sadism • nudism • Sufism • ageism •holism • cataclysm • monism • papism •verism • aneurysm • purism • Nazism •sexism • racism • paroxysm • autism •macrocosm • microcosm • bosom |
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racism
racism • noun Aborigines are the main victims of racism is Australiasynonyms: racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry. |
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chauvinism
...sectarianism, isolationism, flag-waving; xenophobia, racism, ethnocentrism, ethnocentricity; partisanship partiality...goes overboard in trying to rationalize and justify Kipling's racism and jingoism. He argues, for example, that ‘white... |
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bigotry
bigotry • noun synonyms: prejudice, intolerance, fanaticism, narrow-mindedness, bias, partiality, dogmatism, discrimination, unfairness, injustice, chauvinism, jingoism, racism, sexism, provincialism.See bigoted. |
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demonstration
...demonstration of his talent synonyms: manifestation, indication, sign, mark, token, embodiment; expression. 4. an anti-racism demonstration synonyms: protest, march, rally, lobby, sit-in; stoppage, strike, walkout, picket (line); informal... |
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disgusting
...unpalatable, distasteful, foul, nasty, vomitous; informal yucky, icky, gross.antonyms: delicious, appealing. 2. I find racism disgusting synonyms: abhorrent, loathsome, offensive, appalling, outrageous, objectionable, shocking, horrifying, scandalous... |
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reverse
...formal abrogate. • adjective 1. in reverse order synonyms: backward, reversed, inverted, transposed. 2. reverse racism synonyms: inverse, reversed, opposite, converse, contrary, counter, antithetical. • noun 1. the reverse is the case... |
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fascism
...seems like fascism to mesynonyms: authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; Nazism, rightism; nationalism, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism; jingoism, isolationism; neofascism, neo-Nazism. |
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instance
instance • noun an instance of racism synonyms: example, exemplar, occasion, occurrence, case; illustration. • verb they instanced the previous case as an example synonyms... |
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prejudice
...partiality, preference, one-sidedness, chauvinism, bigotry, narrow-mindedness, intolerance, unfairness, unjustness, racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism. 3. without prejudice to any future judgment | without prejudice to his claimsynonyms: detriment... |
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anathema
anathema • noun 1. racism is anathema to themsynonyms: abomination, abhorrence, aversion, bane, bugbear, bête noir. 2. following an anathema of the Churchsynonyms: excommunication, damnation, proscription, denunciation, curse, ban, malediction. |
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Racism: negative and positive?(Report)
...perhaps more stark in the case of race. Racism against "Blacks" is frequently cited...as endorsing it.) In order to fight racism, "Blacks" need to develop positive...been taken by some as a kind of reverse racism that favors "Blacks" over other racial... |
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Racism and the Administration of Justice.
...July 2001-AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Racism and the Administration of Justice...worldwide testify to a simple fact -- racism undermines all human rights. Justice systems all too often perpetuate racism by mirroring the prejudices of their... |
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Racism--a Short History.(Book Review) (book review)
...Press, 2001, Pgs. ix + 207 The issue of racism is one which has exercised the interests...five centuries or so. The phenomenon of racism, as we define it variously, is a relatively...centuries. As mentioned above, the idea of racism has been explored, researched and ... |
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Racism, xenophobia and human rights.
...countries can be added to this list in which racism, ethnocentrism and xenophobia are the...Israel and Palestine, you are sure to find racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia or...today promises a future of increasing racism and xenophobia. Although racism ... |
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Perceived racism and discrimination in children and youths: an exploratory...
Racism can be defined as negative beliefs, attitudes...the basis of perceived group attributes. Racism is often conceptualized as including beliefs...either subtle or obvious (Jones, 2000). Racism can be conceptualized as a toxic stressor... |
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Racism and migration in Western Europe.
...This book grew out of a conference on "Racism and Migration in Europe in the 1990s...discusses the major issues in race and racism in contemporary Europe. The politics...Western Europe, and the link between racism and the growth of an underclass are explored... |
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Confronting racism
RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND INTOLERANCE Legalised racism in South Africa is long dead and the international community...WHEN DELEGATES LAST GATHERED for a world conference against racism, in Geneva in 1983, South Africa was still in the grip of... |
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RACISM IS STILL AROUND IN SUBTLE FORM
There are those who assert that racism is obsolete and not a contemporary problem. But racism is a current event; only its expression is...best understand the contemporary reality of racism by delving into its past. In antiquity, knowledge... |
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Racism is becoming less of a concern for most S. Africans: The UN world...
...this muggy coastal city to talk about racism, there is a particular irony. It's...UN-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia...is a country that essentially defined racism. For nearly 50 years, the white-minority... |
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How Racism Is Embodied: A New Health Advocacy Curriculum
I really already knew that racism was bad but I didn 't know it could...there is now substantial evidence that racism and discrimination produce health inequities...political empowerment. Even more broadly, racism, classism and sexism -identified... |
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