RACIST


Meaning of RACIST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a racist/sexist remark (= an offensive remark showing racist/sexist attitudes )

The men are accused of making racist remarks to a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare.

When faced with a sexist remark, women have to either confront the person or ignore it.

racial/racist stereotypes

The novel has been criticized for reinforcing racial stereotypes.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

anti

Canoeists should be looking to their own backyard to promote an anti racist approach within the sport.

He was introduced in 1910, but has recently been decried as insulting by anti-racist campaigners.

white

We can either use the Carl Rowan method, which is to label every white conservative a racist .

And I can't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players.

Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women.

Relatives claim that a feud with white racists , which they say police ignored, points to something more sinister.

■ NOUN

attack

Sly had not heard about the terrible racist attack on the Bullens Creek community - not many people had.

Do you know about the increase of racist attacks and murders in Britain?

Yildiz was killed on the streets of Glasgow last weekend in what is thought to have been an unprovoked racist attack .

attitude

Twenty forces do not have tests to measure whether their officers have racist attitudes .

Do they have sexist, ageist or racist attitudes that might emerge at a critical point in your work together?

Mr Torode's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes .

discourse

Finally there are some deeper structural factors which constitute the hidden or unconscious premises of these types of racist discourse .

The contradictoriness and ambivalence of racist discourses and interactions are produced by a complex combination of social and psychic structures and forces.

Thus racist discourses and practices are seen to emerge in specific forms.

The force of such metaphors is all the greater because of the unconscious effect which racist discourse itself exerts.

A rhetorical approach would point directly at the argumentative nature of racist discourse .

remark

Most prefer to swallow their anger or hurt when professors make sexist or racist remarks .

society

Social workers must recognise, therefore, that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group.

In racist societies , subject races seem to be slightly more likely to have daughters than sons.

BBoth men emerged from racist societies as champions of equal rights.

Again Cornerville man or the taxi dancer are operating within capitalist, patriarchal and, frequently, racist societies .

view

You are so stupid that you are a fan of black music and yet hold racist views .

The allegation is dangerous and insulting to Morrissey, especially when you consider that he has never publicly espoused racist views .

His racist views will be rejected by all the people in this country regardless of party.

violence

It was a march against racist policing and racist violence .

■ VERB

call

He gets called a racist but I don't think he is.

Dances with Wolves was so biased towards the Sioux that the Crow Nation publicly called it racist .

Almost invariably they fell for it. Call them racist and they would do anything to prove you wrong.

George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime, but it features a black criminal, so he is called racist .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He is accused of being a racist after refusing to be interviewed by a black journalist.

She denies being a racist , claiming to be merely patriotic.

The minister denied that he was a racist , but called for tougher controls on immigration.

There has been a rise in attacks on asylum seekers made by skinheads and other racists.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Racist attitudes are not simply articulated in the vicious attacks of racist thugs.

Appendix C shows the anti-racism statement together with an extract from one such guidance paper on dealing with racist clients.

How such racist pornographic material escaped the rye of black activists presents a problem.

It involved a group of white-owned businesses in Mississippi being boycotted by civil rights groups accusing them of racist practices.

The contents of the racist pathology and the material circumstances to which it can be made to correspond are thus left untouched.

The inquest had heard that police failed him when he begged for protection from a racist gang.

When the state looks upon such people as second-class, it is no wonder that racists take the same view.

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