noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a racist/sexist remark (= an offensive remark showing racist/sexist attitudes )
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The men are accused of making racist remarks to a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare.
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When faced with a sexist remark, women have to either confront the person or ignore it.
racial/racist stereotypes
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The novel has been criticized for reinforcing racial stereotypes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
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Canoeists should be looking to their own backyard to promote an anti racist approach within the sport.
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He was introduced in 1910, but has recently been decried as insulting by anti-racist campaigners.
white
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We can either use the Carl Rowan method, which is to label every white conservative a racist .
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And I can't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players.
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Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women.
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Relatives claim that a feud with white racists , which they say police ignored, points to something more sinister.
■ NOUN
attack
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Sly had not heard about the terrible racist attack on the Bullens Creek community - not many people had.
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Do you know about the increase of racist attacks and murders in Britain?
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Yildiz was killed on the streets of Glasgow last weekend in what is thought to have been an unprovoked racist attack .
attitude
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Twenty forces do not have tests to measure whether their officers have racist attitudes .
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Do they have sexist, ageist or racist attitudes that might emerge at a critical point in your work together?
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Mr Torode's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes .
discourse
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Finally there are some deeper structural factors which constitute the hidden or unconscious premises of these types of racist discourse .
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The contradictoriness and ambivalence of racist discourses and interactions are produced by a complex combination of social and psychic structures and forces.
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Thus racist discourses and practices are seen to emerge in specific forms.
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The force of such metaphors is all the greater because of the unconscious effect which racist discourse itself exerts.
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A rhetorical approach would point directly at the argumentative nature of racist discourse .
remark
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Most prefer to swallow their anger or hurt when professors make sexist or racist remarks .
society
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Social workers must recognise, therefore, that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group.
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In racist societies , subject races seem to be slightly more likely to have daughters than sons.
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BBoth men emerged from racist societies as champions of equal rights.
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Again Cornerville man or the taxi dancer are operating within capitalist, patriarchal and, frequently, racist societies .
view
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You are so stupid that you are a fan of black music and yet hold racist views .
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The allegation is dangerous and insulting to Morrissey, especially when you consider that he has never publicly espoused racist views .
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His racist views will be rejected by all the people in this country regardless of party.
violence
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It was a march against racist policing and racist violence .
■ VERB
call
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He gets called a racist but I don't think he is.
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Dances with Wolves was so biased towards the Sioux that the Crow Nation publicly called it racist .
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Almost invariably they fell for it. Call them racist and they would do anything to prove you wrong.
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George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime, but it features a black criminal, so he is called racist .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He is accused of being a racist after refusing to be interviewed by a black journalist.
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She denies being a racist , claiming to be merely patriotic.
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The minister denied that he was a racist , but called for tougher controls on immigration.
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There has been a rise in attacks on asylum seekers made by skinheads and other racists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Racist attitudes are not simply articulated in the vicious attacks of racist thugs.
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Appendix C shows the anti-racism statement together with an extract from one such guidance paper on dealing with racist clients.
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How such racist pornographic material escaped the rye of black activists presents a problem.
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It involved a group of white-owned businesses in Mississippi being boycotted by civil rights groups accusing them of racist practices.
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The contents of the racist pathology and the material circumstances to which it can be made to correspond are thus left untouched.
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The inquest had heard that police failed him when he begged for protection from a racist gang.
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When the state looks upon such people as second-class, it is no wonder that racists take the same view.