单词 | race theory |
释义 | > as lemmasrace theory race theory n. a theory based on the belief that each race possesses specific characteristics, abilities, qualities, etc., esp. distinguishing it as superior or inferior. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > race theory race theory1855 race science1935 1855 R. T. Massy Analyt. Ethnol. 147 The same general laws which are adapted to the one country, are adapted also to the other, irrespective altogether of this race theory. 1895 W. D. Babington (title) Fallacies of race theories. 1945 A. Koestler Yogi & Commissar ii. ii. 192 Within a century or two..race-theory and Jew-baiting would have shrunk to episodes of the past. 2004 T. Fulford et al. Lit., Sci. & Explor. in Romantic Era vi. 127 Race theory, which often placed black people at the bottom of a rigid hierarchy, also depended on an international trade in the body parts of recently discovered ‘natives’. < as lemmas |
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