Please could someone give me a definition for Racism?

Answer 1

1. animosity toward other races: prejudice or animosity against people who belong to other races


2. belief in racial superiority: the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferior

Answer 2

Dedinitions of Racism... is when racism is applied in practice, it takes forms such as prejudice, segregation or subordination.

Racism can more narrowly refer to a system of oppression, such as institutional racism.

Historian Barbara Fields argued in Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America that racism is a "historical phenomenon" that does not explain racial ideology at all.

She suggests that investigators should consider the term to be an American rhetorical device, with a historical explanation.

She suggests that using race as a word with real meaning is a common error akin to superstition. However, other scholars say that races do exist, and that the concept has significant meaning.

Organizations and institutions that put racism into action discriminate against and marginalize a class of people who share a common racial designation.

The term racism is usually applied to the dominant group in a society, because it is that group which has the means to oppress others. The term can also apply to any individual or group, regardless of social status or dominance.

Racism can be both overt and covert. Individual racism sometimes consists of overt acts by individuals, which can result in violence or the destruction of property. Institutional racism is often more covert and subtle.

It often appears within the operation of established and respected forces in the society, and frequently receives less public condemnation than the overt type.

W.E.B. DuBois argued that racialism is the belief that differences between the races exist, be they biological, social, psychological, or in the realm of the soul. He argued that racism is using this belief to promote the idea that one's race is superior to the others.

According to Jared Diamond in his work Guns, Germs and Steel, race is essentially a social and historical construction.[citation needed] He argues that it has no real basis in science, nor can it be used to explain why Europe gained the upper hand in world conquests.

Molefi Asante, an African American academic, describes racism as a "wall of ignorance" that hides the long history of racial injustice from public consciousness.

He argues that most whites view racism as a thing of the past; a problem that was solved by civil rights. He says African Americans continue to experience racism in many areas of social life.

On occasion, individualism has been denounced as a form of racism. In 2006, Seattle Public Schools posted a definition of racism on its website, stating that favoring individualism over collectivism and having a "future time orientation" were examples of racism because they favored "white culture" over viewpoints indigenous to other groups. After much criticism, they removed these statements from their site.

Answer 3

racism is that which, covertly or overtly, resides in the policies, procedures, operations and culture of public or private institutions - reinforcing individual prejudices and being reinforced by them in turn. Whereas individual racism is the expression of personal prejudice, institutional racism is the expression of a whole organisation's racist practice and culture.

Answer 4

Racism is when an Englishman says anything about any other culture in the world.

Answer 5

- the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. • prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief

I KNOW THATS KIND OF CONFUSING BUT I GOT IT FROM A DICTIONARY OFF MY COMPUTER

BUT WHAT I THINK IT MEANS IS FEELING AGGRESSION OF SOMEONE OF A CERTAIN RACE OR RELIGION:

EXAMPLE- THE KLU KLUX KLAN DIDNT LIKE BLACK PEOPLE

Answer 6

Animosity toward other races:Prejudice or animosity against people who belong to other races.

The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

Answer 7

Believing things about someone solely based on their race.


He's a good X because he's Y. She can't X because she's of the Y race.

Answer 8

Dislike of people of a different race to your own for no other reason that they are of another race.

Answer 9

the deliberate mistreatment of someone with a different culture or creed to oneself

Answer 10

Thinking you are smarter, or better than someone else because of the color of their skin....... textbook answer....oh yeah