neo-racist

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See also: neoracist

English

Adjective

neo-racist (comparative more neo-racist, superlative most neo-racist)

  1. Alternative form of neoracist
    • 1975, Nathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Corinne Saposs Schelling, Ethnicity: Theory and Experience, →ISBN, page 266:
      Ideologically, the Nixon administration was neo-racist insofar as it manipulated negative symbols associated with white perceptions of blacks.
    • 2013, Romin W. Tafarodi, Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN:
      They contend that the latter's opening up of the category of Settler to include all non-Indigenous peoples has arisen alongside, and is thus tainted by association with, neo-racist and neoliberal ideologies of the 1980s that rely for their force on the assumption of 'incommensurable "differences" between "cultures" imagined as separate and distince' (p. 122).
    • 2016, Aurélien Mondon, The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia, →ISBN:
      Therefore, the neo-racist argument targets not only immigrants but also their descendants for the threat they pose to national identity.

Noun

neo-racist (plural neo-racists)

  1. Alternative form of neoracist
    • 2006, Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Canada's Economic Apartheid, →ISBN:
      Neo-racists have been documented to engage xenophobic responses and attempts at closure. At the national level, they often demand an end to immigration.
    • 2011, Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed, →ISBN:
      The Republicans lost three Senate seats, and sixteen seats in the House, including such familiar figures as North Carolina's Jesse Helms, voted out when just enough white working-class voters turned to the populist message of State Insurance Commissioner John Ingram, who attacked Helms not as a neo-racist or an extremist, but as "the hand-picked tool of the fat cats and special interests."
    • 2016, Manuela Boatcă, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism, →ISBN:
      That Weber's sociology should be so clearly indebted to narrowly defined and historically contingent cultural and political values underlying his notion of national identity has been alternatively seen as a reason for either discarding Weber as a classic (Abraham 1991) or re-reading him as a neo-racist (Zimmerman 2006).

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