RACISM, A Short History
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
2002
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loginThe term “racism” is often used in a loose and unre-flective way to describe the hostile or negative feel-ings of one ethnic group or “people” toward an-other and the actions resulting from such attitudes. Butsometimes the antipathy of one group toward another isexpressed and acted upon with a single-mindedness andbrutality that go far beyond the group-centered prejudiceand snobbery that seem to constitute an almost universalhuman failing. Hitler invoked racist theories to justify hisgenocidal treatment of European Jewry, as did white su-premacists in the American South to explain why Jim Crowlaws were needed to keep whites and blacks separated andunequal.
