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ethnoracialism

ethnoracialism noun: a belief in racial and/or ethnic separatist ideologies, emphasizing perceived social and cultural differences among racially defined ethnic groups.

Noun

ethnoracialism (uncountable)

  1. A belief in racial and/or ethnic separatist ideologies, emphasizing perceived social and cultural differences among racially defined ethnic groups.
    • The oppressors in turn embraced their victims, whom they had demonized as terrorists. Given the ideological warfare and the real battles and atrocities that had taken place in the name of ethnoracialism during four decades of formal apartheid, this pragmatic reconciliation disproves the...1996, Ruth Hutchison, Peter F. Alexander, Deryck Marshall Schreuder, Africa today: a multi-disciplinary snapshot of the continent in 1995, African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific....
    • Many small militant movements today would have another kind of law (God's law, market logic, ethnoracialism) speak against statist jurisdiction while naming other selves (religious, racial, revolutionary) and other games (race purity, ...)1999, Timothy W. Luke, Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 14

Origin of ethnoracialism

From ethnoracial + -ism or ethno- + racialism.

Questions about ethnoracialism

What does ethnoracialism mean?
Ethnoracialism means a belief in racial and/or ethnic separatist ideologies, emphasizing perceived social and cultural differences among racially defined ethnic groups.
What part of speech is ethnoracialism?
Ethnoracialism is a noun.

Words near ethnoracialism in the dictionary

  1. ethnopsychopharmacological
  2. ethnopsychopharmacology
  3. ethnorace
  4. ethnoraces
  5. ethnoracial
  6. ethnoracialism
  7. ethnoracialist
  8. ethnoracially
  9. ethnoracism
  10. ethnoregion
  11. ethnoregional

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