neoracism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Discrimination or prejudice based on nationality and ethnicity or cultural differences.
Uncountable
noun
An instance of neoracism, or a type of neoracism that targets a particular nationality.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "What is new and different about neoracism is denial, including a determination to deny "the other" any voice or space in the mainstream."
- "Whereas racism is traditionally based on one's physical appearance and stereotypes associated with an individual's race, neoracism extends racism to include stereotypes about one's country of origin. Neoracism is based on the perception of superiority of cultures and national order […] According to neoracism, the racial experiences of Africans and Asians, for example, are qualitatively different from the racial experiences of their hyphenated American counterparts."
- "A stream of European authors differentiate between overt and individual 'classic,' biological racism and covert and institutional cultural neoracism (Fréjuté-Rakauskiené 2006: 13)."
- "In the France of today the tendency to 'keep the two stories separate' has, I think, very serious social and political consequences, consequences that are being played out in the rise of the various neoracisms of the 1980s and 1990s that focus on the figure of the immigrant worker."
- "After Race centrally holds that race is a biological myth at long last invalidated by science, but now dangerously re-created because scholars persist in using the term. Such scholars thereby decisively aid the rise of culturally based neoracisms and even the recrudescence of biological racism."
- "Stolke (1995), on the other hand, considers the characterization of contemporary anti-immigrant rhetoric as a neoracism to be misleading."