Racism, the idea that there is a direct correspondence between a group’s values, behaviour and attitudes, and its physical features, is one of the major social problems confronting contemporary societies. Racism is also a relatively new idea: its...

Racism [addendum] Racism is the view that (1) the human species is composed of different racial groups, (2) these groups are arranged hierarchically from least to most superior, and (3) superior groups have the right to use inferior groups for the...

As global consciousness over racial inequality sharpened during the 1960s, a liberal anthropology affirmed that race does not exist. But racism, the socially-organized result of race ranking, clearly did. During the 1930s and 1940s in the USA, several...

Racism is any political or social belief that justifies treating people differently according to their racial origins. In fact, since the adoption of affirmative action policies in many countries to redress historical patterns of discrimination by...

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Wesley Snipes claims a central Florida county is too racist to allow him to get a fair trial on tax evasion charges. An October 2006 federal indictment charges Snipes with fraudulently claiming refunds totaling nearly $12 million in 1996 and 1997 for income taxes already...

Wouter Van Bellingen has the name, the lingo, the clothes and the upbringing of your typical Flemish alderman.One thing sets him apart: Van Bellingen is black in a mostly white city, and for that reason, three local couples refused to let him conduct their City...

The NAACP plans a summit Saturday to address racism on college campuses months after white students at Clemson University held a party mocking black stereotypes and after the founder of a white supremacist group spoke there earlier this week."This meeting will be the first step...

Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the national debate over what is and isn't acceptable to say in public.Clinton's camp has perceived sexism...

In the following essay, De Aruña examines the treatment of racism and sexism in several fictional works that also deal with imperialism in the Caribbean.

In the following essay, Della Cava and Engel explore instances of various kinds of racism in several contemporary detective novels featuring female protagonists.

In the following essay, Pearson focuses on Johnson's role in the Harlem Renaissance movement—especially his writings for Opportunity and other periodicals that emphasized an emerging identity for African Americans—and his belief that art is a means of defeating racism.

Nineteen sixty-three was a pivotal year in the history of race relations in the United States. In April of that year, Martin Luther King Jr. and several other civil rights leaders initiated a nonviolent protest campaign to desegregate public facilities...

I looked at copies of sports pages from the 1940's and from the 1980's and compared them. I examined racial issues, and some of what I discovered may shock you.

Essay shows how the term racism can be used to describe the attitudes of Europeans toward the Jews and non-Europeans during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Liberal racisr policies and Indians as a degraded race in post-colonial Latin America