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According to dictionary definitions, racism is prejudice and discrimination based on race. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Racism can also be said to describe a condition in society in which a dominant racial group benefits from the oppression of others, whether that group wants such benefits or not. [ 48 ]
Internalized racism is a form of internalized oppression, defined by sociologist Karen D. Pyke as the "internalization of racial oppression by the racially subordinated." [1] In her study The Psychology of Racism, Robin Nicole Johnson emphasizes that internalized racism involves both "conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy in which a presumed superior race are consistently ...
Symbolic racism is a form of modern implicit racism, as it is more subtle and indirect than more overt forms of racism, [5] such as Jim Crow laws. As symbolic racism develops through socialization and its processes occur without conscious awareness, [ 6 ] an individual with symbolically racist beliefs may genuinely oppose racism and believe ...
Kennedy Mitchum is a modern-day agent of change. Thanks to the relatively unknown young black woman, racism has a new definition in the dictionary. The Florissant, Mo., native took matters into ...
Kennedy Mitchum expected little in return after emailing Merriam- Webster about its standing definition of the word racism. The 22-year-old was surprised to receive a response from the editor of ...
Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based on race or ethnic group and can include policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others.
Merriam-Webster's decision to revise the definition of racism raises long-standing questions about the politics of dictionaries.
An important characteristic of the so-called 'new racism', 'cultural racism' or 'differential racism' is the fact that it essentialises ethnicity and religion, and traps people in supposedly immutable reference categories, as if they are incapable of adapting to a new reality or changing their identity.