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Understanding Racism Through the Raw Memoirs of a Black Man
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- Robert LeRoy Butler III, M.D. |
rac·ism
Noun 1. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized. Similar meanings: racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry, bias, intolerance, anti-Semitism, apartheid. 2. The belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another. |