7 sentences with 'racism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word racism and other words derived from it.
• « Very quickly, however, the theory of evolution was taken over as a justification for both rigid class distinctions and racism. »
• « Fascism was, among other things, a cultural movement that found in "scientific" racism a deeply compatible doctrine: the "scientific" proof in the rightness of the racial nation's rise to power. »
• « The problem was that it was much easier to maintain that attitude before many non-European-born people made their homes there; as soon as significant minority populations became residents of European countries, there was an explosion of anti-immigrant racism among whites. »
• « In the United States, many members of the youth movement (both black and white) campaigned to end both racist laws and the racism inherent in American culture in general. »
• « Like racism, the many forms of sexism embedded in Western culture too often weathered these feminist attacks, but arguably weakened in comparison to the past. »
• « While racism was always a factor in Europe, during the boom years immigrants were generally seen as at least 'useful' to European countries and their economies. They did the jobs Europeans did not want and formed a vital part of the Western European economy as a whole. »
• « For example, some slaves lent themselves to their masters' racism by hiding their intelligence and feigning infantilism and ignorance. Thus, slaves could slow down the workday and sabotage the system in small ways by "accidentally" breaking tools, for example; the master, seeing his slaves as unsophisticated and childish, would believe that these incidents were accidents and not rebellions. »