neo-racist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of neoracist.
noun
Alternative form of neoracist.
Example Sentences
- "Ideologically, the Nixon administration was neo-racist insofar as it manipulated negative symbols associated with white perceptions of blacks."
- "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)."
- "Therefore, the neo-racist argument targets not only immigrants but also their descendants for the threat they pose to national identity."
- "Neo-racists have been documented to engage xenophobic responses and attempts at closure. At the national level, they often demand an end to immigration."
- "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.""
- "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)."