protoracist

comparative more protoracist · superlative most protoracist

1. alternativeAlternative form of proto-racist.

   These protoracist notions differ in important ways from the "science of race" that emerged in the nineteenth century, to say nothing of the crude and vicious applications of it under Nazi rule.

   1997, Albert S. Lindemann, Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews, →ISBN, page 74

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   One of the oldest known religious prejudices, which has been passed on through the centuries and in various cultures and religious contexts and even adopted in a protoracist form, is that against the Egyptian religion and its followers.

   2009, Anton Pelinka, Karin Bischof, Karin Stogner, Handbook of Prejudice, →ISBN, page 158

   In the Roman world, as in more recent colonial societies, protoracist views about the inferiority of “barbarian” peoples helped to justify war, subjugation, mass murder, enslavement, and exploitation on an unprecedented scale across vast territories.

   2010, David J. Mattingly, Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire, →ISBN

plural protoracists

1. alternativeAlternative form of proto-racist.

   Schoolmaster, meanwhile, cannot brand the third-grade class at Mesa Elementary as protoracists (a conclusion that I am sure she does not believe anyway).

   2007, Karen Tracy, James P. Mcdaniel, Bruce E. Gronbeck, The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy, →ISBN

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   The Greeks have been variously represented: as aristocrats or democrats, as unravished brides of quietness or sexual misfits in need of a therapist's couch, as narcissists or altruists, as protoracists or open-minded egalitarians.

   2002, Barry Strauss, Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War, →ISBN