adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a racial assault
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The four young Asian men were victims of a vicious racial assault.
a racial attack
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Staffordshire police are treating the incident as a racial attack.
a racial disturbance (= between people of different races )
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Black people were still repressed and racial disturbances continued.
a racial group
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Schools should not stereotype pupils from certain racial groups as troublemakers.
cultural/political/racial etc divide
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people on both sides of the political divide
cultural/racial/class barriers
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Sport is a sure way to break down racial barriers.
ethnic/racial conflict (= between people of different races )
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The ethnic conflict in the region has become violent.
ethnic/racial diversity (= including people from many different races )
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The school's curriculum reflects the ethnic diversity of its students.
physical/sexual/racial abuse
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Many children suffer racial abuse at school.
political/gender/racial etc bias
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political bias in the press
political/racial/sexual etc oppression
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They suffered years of political oppression.
racial inequality
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The party has promised to fight racial inequality.
racial integration
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problems of racial integration
racial prejudice
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a novel about a young white boy who is forced to confront his racial prejudice
racial segregation
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racial segregation
racial tension
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Racial tension boiled over and riots quickly spread.
racial/class/gender etc division
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The old class divisions had begun to break down.
racial/ethnic violence (= between people of different racial/ethnic groups )
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There were outbreaks of racial violence in some cities.
racial/race discrimination
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Laws have been passed banning racial discrimination.
racial/race hatred
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Feelings of racial hatred were drummed into him as a child.
racial/racist stereotypes
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The novel has been criticized for reinforcing racial stereotypes.
racial/religious intolerance
racial/sexual equality
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The minister is a well-known campaigner for racial equality.
racial/sexual etc overtones
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football songs with violent overtones
racial/social inequity
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a report on racial inequity in the UK
racial/social/political harmony
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We aim to promote racial harmony through shared sporting activities.
sexual/racial harassment (= because of someone’s sex or race )
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We need effective strategies to combat sexual harassment in the workplace.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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If their tendency is that they are likely or intended to stir up racial hatred, that is sufficient. 4.
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And within the field, status comes from puffing up racial bragging points.
■ NOUN
abuse
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Some ethnic minority elders may find the continuing experience of hostility and racial abuse which they experience very hard to bear.
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Some critics say the prisons should hire more blacks to help curb racial abuse .
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People we spoke to in Ross said that people involved in racial abuse were in the minority.
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A lot of racial abuse and harassment goes on.
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Their children had begun to face racial abuse on the streets and in the schools.
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I can never condone coin-throwing or racial abuse .
attack
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It looks at some appalling racial attacks , including a skinhead raid last June on a Gypsy camp near Naples.
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These precautions are essential because of the danger of racial attacks .
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We will continue to ensure that the full force of the law is used to deal with racial attacks .
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After he was elected in November he revealed that he been the subject of racial attacks during his campaign.
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Their gathering for the bus ride home is often the occasion for a racial attack .
barrier
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On the field, the racial barriers are coming down.
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Qualified academically to serve their people, they can not do so because of racial barriers bristling in their way.
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Baseball has had four black managers since Jackie Robinson broke the sport's racial barrier in 1947.
bias
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In practice the Act requires teachers to avoid racial bias in the performance of their teaching and pastoral duties.
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But this looks like racial bias , it smells like racial bias, it is racial bias of the worst kind.
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Women's groups also resented the imposition of limits for gender discrimination while damages for racial bias were unlimited.
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But this looks like racial bias , it smells like racial bias, it is racial bias of the worst kind.
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The signing of Tendulkar was described as a whitewash merely to cover racial bias .
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Congress may adopt a racial-justice amendment that would allow blacks to appeal against conviction on the ground of systematic racial bias .
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Mark Fuhrman, who was subsequently criticized for racial bias by both defense lawyers and prosecutors.
difference
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Such anxieties are still informed by nineteenth-century pseudo-scientific genetic and biological explanations of racial difference and comprise distortion, fantasy and myth.
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But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.
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By implication it denies racial differences in facial structure, body size and a number of metabolic predispositions.
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This divergence tells us nothing about racial differences .
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Arguments such as Younge's are apparently intended to forestall any extrapolation to racial differences in intelligence.
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Is that because of the racial difference or the difference in the burden of proof in criminal and civil cases?
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Exactly the same double bind is encountered in any theorization of racial difference .
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In contrast to her daughter, Cynthia is volatile, hyper-emotional and needy, inverting stereotypical images of racial difference .
disadvantage
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Additionally, he accepted the need to tackle racial disadvantage and other social issues.
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Other reactions have concentrated on the issue of the interplay between inner-city decay and racial disadvantage in contemporary Britain.
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Physical and mental ill-health, social disadvantage , and racial disadvantage are other areas that might be cited as examples.
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Courts were generally regarded as fair, and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage .
discrimination
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We will eliminate racial discrimination in housing allocation and improve safety on estates.
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Business is booming for an Avis franchisee in the Carolinas despite well-publicized allegations of racial discrimination against customers.
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It also found that he was the subject of racial discrimination by the police force during its investigation of him.
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Co. have sued the securities firm for alleged racial discrimination over an electronic mailing they said contained racist jokes.
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Socioeconomic differences themselves often resulted from racial discrimination , especially in employment and housing.
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It was charged with finding and ending racial discrimination in war industries under government contract.
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He also reported that racial discrimination was endemic in the schools of employees' children.
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Often, boycotts have been instigated by domestic issues such as gay rights, racial discrimination and labor disputes.
divide
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The offspring of such a union are never quite accepted - on either side of the racial divide .
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Some would call it a racial divide .
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Similarly, the racial divide may be changing in the suburbs.
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From his side of the racial divide , the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
division
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Stations jealous of their disciplines maintained a class and racial division on specific parts of the platform and between platforms.
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We have to continue to heal the racial divisions that still tear at our nation.
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He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.
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Yet the president is sharply criticized for convening a national forum to discuss our racial divisions .
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The verdict stunned many trial watchers and exposed deep racial divisions within the United States.
epithet
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After last season's playoff loss to the Pacers, vandals spray-painted racial epithets in Iverson's backyard.
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The two men, once so close, fight violently, Doug hurling racial epithets at Paul.
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They invented racial epithets that showed the same imagination which put humankind upon the moon.
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There were additional complaints about McCree, who is black, claiming discrimination and using racial epithets against his white co-workers.
equality
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Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations.
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Perhaps nothing can bring about racial equality , Wicker notes grimly.
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Public bodies will have a duty to assess the impact on racial equality of proposed policies and services.
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A racial equality steering committee has now been set up to monitor discrimination in Darlington and the county as a whole.
group
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The Elton Committee urged schools not to stereotype pupils from certain racial groups as troublemakers.
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And the idea of establishing another racial group in this racially fraught country is extreme.
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But in doing so they must not restrict the opportunities for one gender or racial group .
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It is plainly true that in our society blacks have suffered discrimination immeasurably greater than any directed at other racial groups .
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The distinction between a racial group as opposed to a religious one is by no means clear cut.
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Why were they dropping out at a higher rate than any other ethnic or racial group ?
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All humans share 99.99 per cent of their genetic information and there is more variation within racial groups than between them.
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There can be no neat and tidy pluralistic separation of racial groups in this country.
harassment
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The question of sexuality further complicates racialized encounters, such as racial harassment and violence.
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Mobilization became more difficult but community-based resistance against police violence, racial harassment , and other problems continued.
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Is not it time to have a specific crime of racial harassment , as I proposed in my 1985 Racial Harassment Bill?
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His family said he had been subjected to a campaign of racial harassment and death threats.
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Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people, were now happening to us.
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Only society itself can make the fundamental change that is required to make racial harassment a part of history.
harmony
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Local authorities also have a specific duty to carry out their functions in such a way as will promote racial harmony .
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Back in class, Miss Grimhle gave a lecture on racial harmony .
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The account, I consider, is not conducive to professional or racial harmony .
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The centre has promoted racial harmony .
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Ordinarily. the city was a model of racial harmony .
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Read Charles Evers' book and hold him up as a model of racial harmony .
hatred
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If their tendency is that they are likely or intended to stir up racial hatred , that is sufficient. 4.
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To date, there have been no prosecutions for this version of the offence of inciting to racial hatred .
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Mihailovic is said to be under police investigation on charges of incitement to racial hatred .
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Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred .
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We have given the police stronger powers to deal with racial hatred .
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Now the same ugly forces of racial hatred are beginning to rear their heads again.
identity
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It is curious and extremely unfortunate that this evidence has been ignored and the significance of racial identity minimised.
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More children growing up in a world so increasingly diverse that stock racial identities no longer hold up.
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Consequently, they may neglect the child's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality.
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New cultural and political spaces have been opened up, and hegemonic racial identities and structures have been loosened.
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For them the vital issue of racial identity confusion does not exist.
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It is often the children of such families who have the most profound racial identity crisis.
incident
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Another factor is that police have improved their recording of racial incidents .
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Janet began college in the late l98Os and remembers the racial incidents of that period.
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The Washington Post, like other newspapers, played-up alleged racial incidents to bolster scare headlines.
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Most of those who were interviewed believed the campus is not aggressive enough in dealing with racial incidents .
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An even more sensational racial incident in the summer of 1946 was cause for great public and administrative concern.
inequality
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Questions of peace and war, global distributive justice, gender and racial inequality , and environmental degradation concern us all.
integration
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Does my hon. Friend agree that it does the cause of racial integration no good at all that our procedures should be abused?
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As in the racial integration discussed earlier, this is more than a matter of equal opportunity.
intolerance
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Other factors contributing to a negative view of Britain were the royal family, violence in Northern Ireland and racial intolerance .
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Even more important, the pace of disengagement among whites has been uncorrelated with racial intolerance or support for segregation.
issue
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Thus are the racial issues of education and class triumphantly resolved.
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So now Clinton does Ike one better: He has created a seven-member commission to study racial issues .
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Many blacks remained far from contented, yet two factors helped the President's effort to quieten the racial issue .
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For whites, the fatigue often stems from seeing the case portrayed as a racial issue .
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The kind of knowledge which can be learnt through classic realist texts mitigates against a detailed, productive analysis of racial issues .
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By not emphasizing the racial issue , the blacks in turn depended on the independents they voted for to protect them.
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There is a particularly sensitive racial issue , too.
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The ethnic and racial issues especially threw her.
justice
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He has a deep commitment to racial justice .
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Did anybody in my milieu have any understanding of racial justice , of the need for black power?
lines
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A less happy consequence is political resegregation along racial lines , with Republicans the party for whites, Democrats for blacks.
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That change, too, follows racial lines .
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However, residents said the second stage of the trouble had clearly been on racial lines .
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In their studio, gritty Delta edges were given a smooth, appealing, urban sheen that crossed easily over racial lines .
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There, politics and politicians frequently divide along racial lines .
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Beyond the financial problems, there is new concern that historically tolerant California is developing a culture sharply divided along racial lines .
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Already they have stopped voting along purely racial lines .
minority
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A high-octane mix of racial minorities , a flair for riots and looting.
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And that is how racial minorities can actually benefit the most in politics.
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In some countries, national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength.
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I think gay people have become a target group for people who no longer target racial minorities .
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Mead also said Heller, Ehrman encouraged him to promote the firm as a progressive company for racial minorities and gays.
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Diabetes affects older people and racial minorities disproportionately.
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Added to the general problem of urban unemployment was the high concentration of impoverished racial minorities and immigrants in inner-city neighborhoods.
oppression
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What matters are the structures of power, the institutions and the social practices that produce racial oppression and discriminatory outcomes.
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Or an end to racial oppression ?
origin
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Then there are those families who emphasise differences by their awareness of the racial origin of the child.
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People are immensely flexible in their habits, depending on their racial origin , religion, wealth, and ecology.
overtone
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This message had clearly coded racial overtones and appealed to many working-class whites, particularly in rural areas of the recession-hit state.
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But there are clear racial overtones , which the press has been quick to highlight.
polarization
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That might be an indication of some racial polarization .
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Instead of us moving closer and closer to integration, we seem to be moving closer to racial polarization .
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But these things, though much needed, only address the symptoms of a society racked by racial polarization .
politics
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Now his campaign is threatening to self-destruct because of a controversy over racial politics involving the comedian Jackie Mason.
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Recession has brought back racial politics .
preference
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The continuing, and heated, judicial debate on racial preference indicates that the ultimate outcome of this controversy remains in doubt.
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The two made it clear they oppose any program based on racial preference , calling them exclusionary.
prejudice
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These terms are obviously meant to degrade Tom and this also shows racial prejudice although not to such a great extent.
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Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice , black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.
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I've seen evidence of his denouncing racial prejudice in others, and it greatly impressed me.
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Two more forms of racial prejudice are shown here.
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Crocker was a child of integration and his lack of racial prejudice in music showed it.
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One or two other teachers were encouraged by my willingness to argue against racial prejudice and became more vocal themselves.
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And attitude surveys in Britain have been recording a steady decline in racial prejudice .
problem
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The teacher told him that it was a religious class, dealing with racial problems .
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Wise said he has spoken at more than 100 campuses nationwide, a third of which had some type of racial problem .
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A history of racial problems plagues the facility.
purity
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National fears gave a minor stimulus to arguments for racial purity .
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Nobody had mentioned the myth of racial purity in your columns until Helen Bews intervened.
segregation
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It remains to this day one of the most potent monuments to racial segregation .
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Legal racial segregation has been outlawed; blacks have the vote; votes are pretty much equal in value.
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A Negro dies of heart failure, they blame it on racial segregation .
slur
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The caller complained about racial slurs made by co-workers at the company.
stereotype
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Contrary to racial stereotypes , Georg has a sense of humour.
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The novel has been criticized for being offensive to blacks and for reinforcing racial stereotypes .
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With others we have prejudicial associations at the level of racial stereotypes .
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He talked about Hollywood, and the old racial stereotypes in the movies.
superiority
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Swiney proposed that women's racial superiority was evidenced both by their physical and mental capabilities and in their internal cellular composition.
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The Holocaust shows what happened when the Western doctrine of racial superiority was taken to its ultimate extreme.
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I believe that the major discontinuity lies in the discursive forms through which positions of racial superiority are constructed.
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One of these beliefs may be racial superiority , but does not have to be.
tension
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He says they've led to racial tension , crime and drug abuse.
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Both were involved in high-profile incidents last semester that heightened racial tensions on campus.
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Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said that Britain could not risk a new rise in racial tension through immigration.
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At this time, the civil rights movement was blooming, and the city felt racial tension .
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Longstanding racial tensions and complaints of persistent police harassment of young people underlay the incidents.
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Plenty of dope, the occasional weapon, racial tension .
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In addition, there was racial tension .
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The year was 1921, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, seethed with racial tension .
tolerance
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It was heartening to see the huge demonstration of support for democracy and racial tolerance in Vienna recently.
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There is far more high-mindedness, racial tolerance and intellectual curiosity than you might expect.
violence
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But now there is a new kind of racial violence in schools - girls attacking girls.
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The fear of racial violence was provoked by Conservative politician Enoch Powell.
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A police spokeswoman said the outbreak was not connected to racial violence in nearby Oldham last month.
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The year of the Hodges decision, 1906, was punctuated with racial violence .
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Black people have always known racial violence to be a criminal offence and Black people always reported incidents to the police.
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In both 1988 and 1989, combatting racial violence has been a priority for the Metropolitan Police.
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The federal army in the South, in keeping with the 1877 Compromise, largely ignored instances of racial violence .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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racial equality
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Racial violence used to be commonplace on the streets of the city.
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In Jamaica black and white people have lived together in racial harmony for many years.
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Local police deny that have used racial profiling when stopping motorists.
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Los Angeles County has over 150 racial and ethnic groups in it.
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Some people complained of racial discrimination in the way housing was allocated.
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The event is designed to promote racial harmony.
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We welcome all of you, whatever your racial background.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A black street-sweeper; they have a racial situation.
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But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.
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It can also imply that all the experiences and aspirations of their members are exhausted by the fact of racial subordination.
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Lots of ethnic and racial cracks.
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On the field, the racial barriers are coming down.
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Other reactions have concentrated on the issue of the interplay between inner-city decay and racial disadvantage in contemporary Britain.
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Some would call it a racial divide.
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The heads of civil rights organizations that gathered for the announcement praised Flagstar for making real racial progress.