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The sculpture emphasizes what the Nazis considered to be desirable "Nordic" racial characteristics. The master race (German: Herrenrasse) is a pseudoscientific concept in Nazi ideology in which the putative " Aryan race " is deemed the pinnacle of human racial hierarchy. [ 1 ] Members were referred to as " Herrenmenschen " ("master humans").
The German Nazi Party adopted and developed several racist scientific racial hierarchical categorizations as an important part of its fascist ideology (Nazism) in order to justify enslavement, extermination, ethnic persecution and others atrocities against ethnicities which it deemed genetically or culturally inferior.
Critical race theory (CRT) is an academic field focused on the relationships between social conceptions of race and ethnicity, social and political laws, and media. CRT also considers racism to be systemic in various laws and rules, not based only on individuals' prejudices. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The word critical in the name is an academic reference to ...
Skepticism towards the validity of scientific racism grew during the interwar period, [10] and by the end of World War II, scientific racism in theory and action was formally denounced, especially in UNESCO's early antiracist statement, "The Race Question" (1950): "The biological fact of race and the myth of 'race' should be distinguished. For ...
Aryanism is an ideology of racial supremacy which views the supposed Aryan race as a distinct and superior racial group which is entitled to rule the rest of humanity. Initially promoted by racial theorists such as Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Aryanism reached its peak of influence in Nazi Germany.
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them. [ 1 ] The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and was a key justification for European ...
The Aryan race is a pseudoscientific historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The terminology derives from the historical usage of Aryan, used by modern Indo-Iranians as an epithet of "noble".
Racial formation theory is a framework that seeks to deconstruct race as it exists today in the United States. To do this, the authors first explore the historical development of race as a dynamic and fluid social construct. This goes against the dominant discourses on race, which see race as a static and unchanging concept based purely on ...