How Racism Made Its Way Into The Dictionary The Atlantic While the oxford english dictionary currently dates racism in english to 1903 and racist to 1919, the terms were still rarely used in the early decades of the 20th century. When racist became common parlance, rapidly replacing prejudiced starting around 1970, it was understood mainly in its dictionary style definition: “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism.
How Racism Made Its Way Into The Dictionary The Atlantic John mcwhorter: racist is a tough little word. these terms have naturally often been shortened to just racism, such that the word has acquired a 2.0 definition. merriam webster captures this as. In caste: the origins of our discontents, the pulitzer prize winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the u.s. — and how the nazis borrowed from it. By the 1770s, german figureheads including emmanuel kant and j.f. blumenbach—the latter of whom coined the term caucasian because he believed that the original prototype race originated in the. Racism exists when ideas and assumptions about racial categories are used to justify and reproduce a racial hierarchy and racially structured society that unjustly limits access to resources, rights, and privileges on the basis of race. racism also occurs when this kind of unjust social structure is produced by the failure to account for race.
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