Meanings
- uncountablePractices and institutions that result in racist distinctions and discrimination, but which are not consciously motivated by racist ideology.
This suggests that commentators such as Mahmood would do well to understand that quasiracism does not underlie all attacks on Islam.
2011, Russell Blackford, Freedom of Religion and the Secular State, →ISBN2 more examples
The significance of “popular” quasiracism lies in the deterministic treatment of ethnic or national differences as sharply delineating human groups, precluding close and friendly contacts and the passing of individuals from one group to the other.
2005, Peter Ratcliffe, Race, Ethnicity And Nation, →ISBNOf course there was the ever-present overall general underlying widespread everyday quasiracism made that much more intense by the scrutiny of the state of South Carolina by the NAACP and others.
2016, Leroy Wilson, Reversal of Trends: A Black Man’s Journey across the Mason-Dixon Line, →ISBN
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