neoracist
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Definition of neoracist
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Characteristic of neoracism.
“Cultural anthropology and/or ethnology are thus called on to legitimate the neoracist prescriptions of avoidance of intercultural contact, of separate development (in full "equality in difference," of course), of phobic rejection of any "crossing of cultures."”
“However, these same authors deliberately avoid presenting Taguieff's thorough analysis of racism, in particular his perspicuous examination of the cultural-differentialist arguments that are characteristic of the neoracist discourse of the New Right.”
“When this stereotype is enacted through neoracist hiring practices, Chinese students may be given jobs from which Indian students are filtered out, but they are given these jobs under conditions that are, at least according to the student just quoted, perceived as exploitative.”
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adj
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Characteristic of neoracism.
“Cultural anthropology and/or ethnology are thus called on to legitimate the neoracist prescriptions of avoidance of intercultural contact, of separate development (in full "equality in difference," of course), of phobic rejection of any "crossing of cultures."”
“However, these same authors deliberately avoid presenting Taguieff's thorough analysis of racism, in particular his perspicuous examination of the cultural-differentialist arguments that are characteristic of the neoracist discourse of the New Right.”
“When this stereotype is enacted through neoracist hiring practices, Chinese students may be given jobs from which Indian students are filtered out, but they are given these jobs under conditions that are, at least according to the student just quoted, perceived as exploitative.”
noun
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A person who is neoracist.
“First, it calls attention to the neoracists, who exploit the results of demographic research for their evil propaganda.”
“Linking race with culture and ethnicity in one fluid stroke as "difference," antiracists and neoracists alike refuse the possibility that race as a discourse can be disengaged from ethnicity and culture.”
“Consequently, neoracists substantiate their position with an essentialist notion of culture or way of life.”
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Etymology
From neo- + racist.
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