race detractor

Noun

race detractor (plural race detractors)

1. One who considers human races, or socially current typologies of human races, social constructs without sound foundations in biology.
   • Rather than become distracted or disheartened by the attacks of critical race detractors, this book shows that generations of scholars and activists have kept busy advancing CRT's original agenda and extending its antisubordination reach and insights.2002, Francisco Valdes & Jerome McCristal Culp & Angela P. Harris, "Battles Waged, Won, and Lost: Critical Race Theory at the Turn of the Millennium" (introduction), in Francisco Valdes & Jerome...
   • When race is restricted to the biological viewpoint, two opposite positions are encountered: (1) race detractors, who believe race is a pure social concept and has no biological reality and (2) race realists (Malik, 2012), who believe race has some biological reality, is not only a mere vision of...2016, Michel Tibayrenc, “The Race/Ethnic Debate: An Outsider's View”, in Michel Tibayrenc, Francisco J. Ayala, editors, On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion, Academic...

   Antonyms:

   race realist

2. (historical) One who believes black people are racially inferior in intellectual ability.
   • That is the pet formula of pseudo-scientific race detractors. The Negro has sufficiently proved — and this number of Survey Graphic is only further proof — that, given opportunities, he can rise to any heights.1925 March, Winthroop D. Lane, “Ambushed in the City”, in Survey Graphic: Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro, volume VI, number 6, page 693
   • Race detractors argued that no amount of effort or change of circumstance could enhance the intellectual capacity of blacks.1974, Robert L. Harris, The Free Black Response to American Racism, 1790-1863, Northwestern University, page 153