proto-racist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Characteristic of proto-racism.

   • From this perspective, although the Greeks and Romans did not embark on the kind of institutionalised racism that was commonplace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, proto-racist ideas did exist in Greco-Roman texts.
2. 2

   A person who displays protoracist attitudes or behaviors.

   • In the wake of two wars, these men, their families, and servants were probably fearful of Indians; they certainly did not consider them their equals. Yet that did not make them racists or proto-racists, but pragmatic businessmen.
3. 3

   A person who has the potential to become a racist.

   • A critical antiracism also points to the need to move away from 'doctrinaire' (MacDonald et al, 1989) and dogmatic forms of antiracism which homogenize and caricature Whites as proto-racists and Blacks as victims.
   • This also means that one cannot work with the assumptions that all 'whites' are necessarily and only proto-racists, or that all 'blacks' are necessarily and always victims.

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