Noun

Singular racism

Plural uncountable

racism (uncountable)

1. The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.
2. The belief that one race is superior to all others.
3. Prejudice or discrimination based upon race.

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Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Racism's effects are called "racial discrimination." In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or receive preferential treatment.

Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, although anyone may be discriminated against on an ethnic or cultural basis, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnicity discrimination.

There is some evidence that the meaning of the term has changed over time, and that earlier definitions of racism involved the simple belief that human populations are divided into separate races. Many biologists, anthropologists, and sociologists reject this taxonomy in favor of more specific and/or empirically verifiable criteria, such as geography, ethnicity, or a history of endogamy.

Race is a grouping of animals within a species, particularly humans, on the basis of heredity and stereotyped physical traits. Among humans race is often used as a basis for participation in or exclusion from social activities. The construction of racial groupings varies by culture and time, and is often influenced by political considerations.

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• If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.… The only white people I don't like are the prejudiced white people. Those the shoe don't fit, well, they don't wear it.
  • Miles Davis as quoted in Jet (25 March 1985)

• If you're a real American—that is, an American Indian—you're lucky to be alive. For whether he really believed it or not, the white man has acted on the principle that "The only good Indian is a dead one". This was certainly one of the foundation stones upon which the white European invaders of North America and their descendants established and built the republic of the U.S.A.
  • Stetson Kennedy (1955) Jim Crow Guide: The Way it Was, chapter 1

• Most of the American laws defining race are not to be compared with those once enforced by Nazi Germany, the latter being relatively more liberal. In the view of the Nazis, persons having less than one fourth Jewish blood could qualify as Aryans, whereas many of the American laws specify that persons having one-eighth, one-sixteenth, or any ascertainable" Negro blood are Negroes in the eyes of the law and subject to all restrictions governing the conduct of Negroes.
  • Stetson Kennedy (1955) Jim Crow Guide: The Way it Was, chapter 4

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