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racialism|ˈreɪʃəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. racial a. + -ism.]
Belief in the superiority of a particular race leading to prejudice and antagonism towards people of other races, esp. those in close proximity who may be felt as a threat to one's cultural and racial integrity or economic well-being.
1907Daily Chron. 2 Jan. 6/5 The two principal planks in the party platform are opposition to all racialism and co⁓operation with the Government. 1910Westm. Gaz. 11 Apr. 10/3 What appears to me to be the greatest results of the Botha–Smuts Government is the abolition of Racialism and the construction of roads. 1925E. S. Jones Christ of Indian Road ii. 67 Amid the racial clash and bitterness there stands one who is the Son of man. Racialism withers at his touch. 1934R. Macaulay Going Abroad xv. 127 A Cape Afrikander..had renounced Dutch racialism and the detestation of the English. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 2 Sept. 10/1 The Italian Jews are thus to be added to the victims of Hitler's imbecile ‘racialism’, now adopted by Mussolini as a sop to superior force. 1940R. Benedict Race: Science & Politics vii. 215 Racialism has become involved in scientific absurdities under the Third Reich. 1955Times 20 Aug. 5/5 The Prime Minister spoke on race relations, commenting that in the last session of Parliament there had been less racialism in debate and more moderation. 1960Spectator 6 May 650/1 The two main convictions of racialism are, firstly..‘The highest aim of human existence is the conservation of the race..the maintenance of the racial stock unmixed’..and secondly, that once a man's mind is made up about this, he can never think of changing it. 1971S. Abbott Prevention of Racial Discrimination i. 16 Britain's long history of colonialism over⁓seas does not sufficiently explain the present racialism in this country. 1975Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 16/3 Racism, or racialism, or racial discrimination,..covers everything from a vile form of monomania to the innocent preference of human beings for association with their own kind. 1977P. Johnson Enemies of Soc. ii. 25 Racialism was linked to wishful-thinking, and almost deliberate self-deception. |