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English
Etymology
From anti- + racism.
Adjective
antiracism (not comparable)
- Acting to combat or prevent racism.
2007 March 10, The Associated Press, “Swiss Convict Turkish Politician for Denying Armenian Genocide”, in New York Times:Switzerland’s antiracism legislation has previously been applied to Holocaust denial.
Noun
antiracism (usually uncountable, plural antiracisms)
- (sociology) Opposition to racism.
2020 July 15, Daniel Bergner, “‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Singleton talked in June about antiracism being pitted against the immense coupled forces of “white dysconsciousness and power” and told me that he hadn’t watched the video of Floyd’s killing, because “I believe once I’ve seen the video it will change the person I am.
2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 1, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN:One can divide antiracism into three waves along the lines that feminism has been. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and legalized segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and ’80s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist is a moral flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that because racism is baked into the structure of society, whites’ “complicity” in living within it constitutes racism itself, […]
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