proto-racism
proto-racism noun: attitudes and actions displaying prejudices and stereotypes analogous to those of racism which predate the modern biologically-based concept of race.
Noun
proto-racism (countable and uncountable, plural proto-racisms)
- Attitudes and actions displaying prejudices and stereotypes analogous to those of racism which predate the modern biologically-based concept of race.
- While these mainly focused on the relationship with Jews and Jewish conversos, other historians envisioned Iberian contribution to racism as the elaboration and distillation of Muslim proto-racism that gradually distinguished Africans from >whites< and that, even before the beginning of the...2012, María Elena Martínez, Max S. Hering Torres, David Nirenberg, Race and Blood in the Iberian World, →ISBN, page 151
- Postmodernity, in Latin America in the I980s, had to do with modernity, from the sixteenth century onward: colonial domination, proto-racisms, the epistemic inferiorization of the non-Western world, the transatlantic capitalist/ mercantile order, and uneven development among other issues.2013, James Elkins, Harper Montgomery, Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic, →ISBN, page 48
Examples of proto-racism in a sentence
- Proto-racism is also identified in Roman views of subject peoples, the idea of collective natural slavery was intertwined with patterns of conquest, subjugation and governance.2013, Ian Law, Racism and Ethnicity: Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions, →ISBN:
- According to this perspective, these ideas already existed in the form of proto-racism and Shakespeare employs the medium of theatre to reinforce and disseminate them.2016, Kwesi Tsri, Africans Are Not Black: The case for conceptual liberation, →ISBN:
Forms of proto-racism
| plural | proto-racisms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | protoracism |
Origin of proto-racism
From proto- + racism.
Questions about proto-racism
- What does proto-racism mean?
- Proto-racism means attitudes and actions displaying prejudices and stereotypes analogous to those of racism which predate the modern biologically-based concept of race.
- How do you use proto-racism in a sentence?
- Proto-racism is also identified in Roman views of subject peoples, the idea of collective natural slavery was intertwined with patterns of conquest, subjugation and governance.
- What part of speech is proto-racism?
- Proto-racism is a noun.
- What is the plural of proto-racism?
- The plural of proto-racism is proto-racisms.
Words near proto-racism in the dictionary
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