protoracist

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“These protoracist notions differ⟳ in important ways from the "science of race⟳" that emerged in the nineteenth century, to say⟳ nothing of the crude and vicious applications of it under Nazi rule⟳.”

“One of the oldest known religious prejudices, which has been passed on through the centuries and in various cultures and religious contexts and even adopted in a protoracist form⟳, is that against the Egyptian religion and its followers.”

“In the Roman world, as in more recent colonial societies, protoracist views about the inferiority of “barbarian” peoples helped to justify⟳ war, subjugation, mass murder⟳, enslavement, and exploitation on an unprecedented scale across vast territories.”

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