Racism
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
“For any European during the nineteenth century – and I think one can say this almost without qualification – Orientalism was such a system of truths, truths in Nietzsche’s sense of the word. It is therefore correct that every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.” -- Edward W. Said, Orientalism pp. 203-4 "Morning, noon and night we were subjected to jeers, insults and blows because we were "Negroes". Who will ever forget that the black was addressed as "tu", not because he was a friend, but because the polite "vous" was reserved for the white man?" --Patrice Lumumba, "Congolese Independence Speech" from The Truth about a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, pp. 44-47. [1] "‘It’s all the fault of the Jews.’ -What’s a Jew?’ I ask. ‘People with Jewish blood,’ is your answer. ‘What’s the difference between Jewish blood and other blood?’ This question stumps you; you hesitate, become confused, and answer: ‘I mean the Jewish race.’ ‘What is race?’ I ask." --Listen, Little Man! (1945) by Wilhelm Reich |
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Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human so-called races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior. Many scholars maintain race to be a social construct with potent social and political effects but no basis in biological science.
See also
- Black athletic superiority
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Discrimination
- Everybody is a racist
- Fascism
- Labeling theory
- Neo-Nazism
- Racial segregation
- Racism in film
- Racialization
- Scientific racism
- Social interpretations of race
- Sociology of race and ethnic relations
- Tribalism
- Yellow Peril
In fiction