Meaning of quasiracism | Babel Free

Definitions

Practices and institutions that result in racist distinctions and discrimination, but which are not consciously motivated by racist ideology.

uncountable

Examples

“The significance of “popular” quasiracism lies in the deterministic treatment of ethnic or national differences as sharply delineating human groups, precluding close and friendly contacts and the passing of individuals from one group to the other.”

“This suggests that commentators such as Mahmood would do well to understand that quasiracism does not underlie all attacks on Islam.”

“Of course there was the ever-present overall general underlying widespread everyday quasiracism made that much more intense by the scrutiny of the state of South Carolina by the NAACP and others.”

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