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racialism

noun

Etymology

From racial + -ism. Coined in 1882 based on the older use of "race" as a synonym of "nation, tribe, ethnic group", later senses (from 1890) from the use of "race" for racial categories.

  1. derived from hárr — “grey-haired; hoary”
  2. derived from haraz — “troop of horses”
  3. derived from رَأْس — “head”
  4. derived from linea sanguinis — “bloodline of descent”
  5. derived from *raiza✻ — “line”
  6. derived from *raitō✻
  7. derived from razza
  8. borrowed from race
  9. formed as racial — “race + -ial”
  10. suffixed as racialism — “racial + ism”

Definitions

  1. The belief that humans can be categorized as belonging to distinct races, each race being…

    The belief that humans can be categorized as belonging to distinct races, each race being characterized by fixed and heritable traits.

    • Never mentioning Delany by name, Vashon lambastes the “combatants” for their racialism, insisting that a belief in “a natural distinction between the white and colored races” only legitimates the racism of blacks’ oppressors.
    • Yet such racialism was built upon the data of philology, inferring discrete racial groups from different speech varieties.

  2. Racism, the belief in the existence of different races and that some are superior to…

    Racism, the belief in the existence of different races and that some are superior to others; policies or practices which promote the dominance of one or more races over others.

  3. Tribalism, nationalism.

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Derived

antiracialism, ethnoracialism, nonracialism

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for racialism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA