proto-racisms
proto-racisms is the plural of proto-racism.
Meaning of proto-racism
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
Questions about proto-racisms
- What is proto-racisms the plural of?
- Proto-racisms is the plural of proto-racism.
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