race realists

Noun

race realist (plural race realists)

1. (euphemistic) A believer in scientific racism (“racism presented as science or as supported by science”); a person who believes empirical evidence exists to support the notion of innate racial differences (that some races are superior and others inferior).
   • Taylor, a Yale graduate with international degrees, uses pseudoscience to make racism appear natural and calls his colleagues "race realists" (Fogg, 2006). These race realists were presenters at American Renaissance’s Seventh Biennial International Conference in Virginia in February of 2006 and...2009, Mary E. Earick, Racially Equitable Teaching: Beyond the Whiteness of Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 39
2. One who believes that the human species is divided into observable races.
   • Professor Gordon considers himself a "race realist." Consequently, one must ask: Has it ever occurred to your intellectual realist to question the "scientifically neutral" criterion or criteria upon which the institution of those "neighborhood lines" were based in the first place?2007, Delores P. Aldridge, E. Lincoln James, Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms

   Antonyms:

   race detractor

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