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protoracism

protoracism is the alternative form of proto-racism.

Meaning of proto-racism

Noun

proto-racism (countable and uncountable, plural proto-racisms)

  1. 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

Forms of protoracism

pluralprotoracisms

Questions about protoracism

What is protoracism the alternative form of?
Protoracism is the alternative form of proto-racism.

Words near protoracism in the dictionary

  1. protopterid
  2. protopterids
  3. protoptile
  4. protoptiles
  5. protopunk
  6. protoracism
  7. protoracisms
  8. protoracist
  9. protoracists
  10. protorap
  11. protoraps

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