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...

Racism "Racism" is the doctrine that one group of men is morally or mentally superior to another and that this superiority arises out of inherited biological differences. Of the modern theories aimed at dividing one portion of humanity...

Racism Racism has two broad meanings. First and most commonly, racism refers to the belief that there exist biologically defined races, or categories of human beings in which membership is determined by the possession of certain biological...

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...

any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview—the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called "races," that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of...

Racism is the belief that the perceived superiority, whether physical, intellectual or cultural, of one group over another is attributable to the inherent quality of race. Such a belief has, throughout history, served as justification for the...

Any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview—the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races,” that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and...

An ideology which claims that groups of people have different characteristics determined by hereditary factors and which endows some races with superiority over others; the social and political practices to maintain...

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