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neoracist

neoracist adjective: characteristic of neoracism.

Adjective

neoracist (comparative more neoracist, superlative most neoracist)

  1. Characteristic of neoracism.
    • Cultural anthropology and/or ethnology are thus called on to legitimate the neoracist prescriptions of avoidance of intercultural contact, of separate development (in full "equality in difference," of course), of phobic rejection of any "crossing of cultures."2001, Pierre-André Taguieff, The Force of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles, →ISBN, page 5
    • However, these same authors deliberately avoid presenting Taguieff's thorough analysis of racism, in particular his perspicuous examination of the cultural-differentialist arguments that are characteristic of the neoracist discourse of the New Right.2009, Damir Skenderovic, The Radical Right in Switzerland: Continuity and Change, 1945-2000, →ISBN

Noun

neoracist (plural neoracists)

  1. A person who is neoracist.
    • First, it calls attention to the neoracists, who exploit the results of demographic research for their evil propaganda.1993, Yearbook of Population Research in Finland
    • Linking race with culture and ethnicity in one fluid stroke as "difference," antiracists and neoracists alike refuse the possibility that race as a discourse can be disengaged from ethnicity and culture.2003, Studies in Practical Philosophy

Forms of neoracist

Adjective
comparativemore neoracist
superlativemost neoracist
alternative formneo-racist
Noun
pluralneoracists

Origin of neoracist

From neo- + racist.

Questions about neoracist

What does neoracist mean?
Neoracist means characteristic of neoracism.
What part of speech is neoracist?
Neoracist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near neoracist in the dictionary

  1. Neopythagoreanism
  2. Neopythagoreans
  3. neoquassin
  4. neoracism
  5. neoracisms
  6. neoracist
  7. neoracists
  8. neoreaction
  9. neoreactionaries
  10. neoreactionary
  11. neorealism

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