neoracism
See also: neo-racism
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neoracism (countable and uncountable, plural neoracisms)
- (uncountable) Discrimination or prejudice based on nationality and ethnicity or cultural differences.
- 2002, Kate A. Berry, Martha L. Henderson, Geographical Identities of Ethnic America: Race, Space, and Place, →ISBN:
- What is new and different about neoracism is denial, including a determination to deny "the other" any voice or space in the mainstream.
- 2012, Brian Pusser, Ken Kempner, Simon Marginson, Universities and the Public Sphere, →ISBN:
- Whereas racism is traditionally based on ... physical appearance and sterotypes ... , neoracism ... is based on the perception of superiority of cultures and national order[.] According to neoracism, the racial experiences of Africans and Asians, for example, are qualitatively different from the racial experiences of their hyphenated American counterparts.
- 2012, Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism, →ISBN, page 382:
- A stream of European authors differentiate between overt and individual 'classic,' biological racism and covert and institutional cultural neoracism (Fréjuté-Rakauskiené 2006: 13).
- (countable) An instance of neoracism, or a type of neoracism that targets a particular nationality.
- 2000, Andy Hollis, Beyond Boundaries: Textual Representations of European Identity, →ISBN:
- In the France of today the tendency to 'keep the two stories separate' has, I think, very serious social and political consequences, consequences that are being played out in the rise of the various neoracisms of the 1980s and 1990s that focus on the figure of the immigrant worker.
- 2007, Michael Yates, More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States, →ISBN, page 73:
- After Race centrally holds that race is a biological myth at long last invalidated by science, but now dangerously re-created because scholars persist in using the term. Such scholars thereby decisively aid the rise of culturally based neoracisms and even the recrudescence of biological racism.
- 2011, Christopher Lawrence, Blood and Oranges: Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece, →ISBN:
- Stolke (1995), on the other hand, considers the characterization of contemporary anti-immigrant rhetoric as a neoracism to be misleading.
- (uncountable, derogatory) An ideology that rejects the idea of color blindness and believes in different treatment for different races.
- 2021, Stephen Waters, Individuals, Journalism, and Society Epilogue-Lessons learned:
- […] opposing all forms [of] racism, including neoracism.
JANET: Martin Luther King would have been super-antiracist, but CRT progressives minimize King's accomplishments.
- 2023, Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress:
- Bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting black communities and weakening the social fabric. We're told to read books and listen to music by people of colour but that wearing certain clothes is 'appropriation.'