race detractor
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who considers human races, or socially current typologies of human races, social constructs without sound foundations in biology.
Example Sentences
- "2002, Francisco Valdes & Jerome McCristal Culp & Angela P. Harris, "Battles Waged, Won, and Lost: Critical Race Theory at the Turn of the Millennium" (introduction), in Francisco Valdes & Jerome McCristal Culp & Angela P. Harris (eds.), Crossroads, Directions and A New Critical Race Theory, Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 5. Rather than become distracted or disheartened by the attacks of critical race detractors, this book shows that generations of scholars and activists have kept busy advancing CRT's original agenda and extending its antisubordination reach and insights."
- "When race is restricted to the biological viewpoint, two opposite positions are encountered: (1) race detractors, who believe race is a pure social concept and has no biological reality and (2) race realists (Malik, 2012), who believe race has some biological reality, is not only a mere vision of the mind, and could be a usual proxy for biomedical studies."
- "That is the pet formula of pseudo-scientific race detractors. The Negro has sufficiently proved — and this number of Survey Graphic is only further proof — that, given opportunities, he can rise to any heights."
- "Race detractors argued that no amount of effort or change of circumstance could enhance the intellectual capacity of blacks."
- "Women are cited for their dedicated church work and their business acumen, an ability that race detractors felt Black women lacked."