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Racialism - Distinguishing from racism

Racialism - Distinguishing from racism: Encyclopedia II - Racialism - Distinguishing from racism

While "racism" refers both to individual attitudes and group behaviour, "racialism" usually implies the existence of a social or political movement. Supporters of racialism say that "racism" implies racial supremacism and a harmful intent, whereas "racialism" indicates a strong interest in matters of race without these connotations. Instead, their focus is on "racial pride", identity politics, and / or racial segregation. Organisations such as NAAWP insist on these dis ...

Racialism: Encyclopedia II - Racialism - Distinguishing from racism

Racialism - Distinguishing from racism

The relationship between the two concepts is expressed at length by Kwame Anthony Appiah in his book In My Father's House:

"the view – which I shall call racialism – that there are heritable characteristics, possessed by members of our species, which allow us to divide them into a small set of races, in such a way that all the members of these races share certain traits and tendencies with each other that they do not share with members of any other race. These traits and tendencies characteristic of a race constitute, on the racialist view, a sort of racial essence; it is part of the content of racialism that the essential heritable characteristics of the "Races of Man" account for more than the visible morphological characteristics – skin colour, hair type, facial features – on the basis of which we make our informal classifications. Racialism is at the heart of nineteenth-century attempts to develop a science of racial difference, but it appears to have been believed by others – like Hegel, before then, and Crummell and many Africans since – who have had no interest in developing scientific theories.

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