Proto-racist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Proto-racist is an adjective meaning Characteristic of proto-racism.
Meaning
Characteristic of proto-racism.
More Meanings
- A person who displays protoracist attitudes or behaviors.
- A person who has the potential to become a racist.
Example Sentences
A critical antiracism also points to the need to move away from 'doctrinaire' (MacDonald et al, 1989) and dogmatic forms of antiracism which homogenize and caricature Whites as proto-racists and Blacks as victims.
From this perspective, although the Greeks and Romans did not embark on the kind of institutionalised racism that was commonplace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, proto-racist ideas did exist in Greco-Roman texts.
In the wake of two wars, these men, their families, and servants were probably fearful of Indians; they certainly did not consider them their equals. Yet that did not make them racists or proto-racists, but pragmatic businessmen.
Hannaford insists that later thinkers from the Renaissance onwards selected bits from Greek texts that fitted with their ideas about race, thus casting thinkers such as Aristotle and Plato as proto-racist and misunderstanding the real character of Greek ideas.
Word Forms
- protoracist
- proto-racists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include protoracist, neoracist, proracist, colour-proud, racist, quasiracist.
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