antiracist
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- adjective
- /ˌæn.tiˈreɪ.sɪst/
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antirracista
- " Medievalists need to take explicitly antiracist positions and act in explicitly antiracist ways in how they conduct themselves in the field," she said in an email.
Examples
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Creating spaces for a white antiracist identity is crucial, but it is vital not to excuse or lose sight of historically and socially accumulated assets and advantages from which white populations benefit.
Academic text (2012) -
A few years ago, a new "antiracist curriculum" was put in place by the women's studies program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Academic text (1998) -
As the millennium began, new groups were forming, the most famous of which were created by women from the antiracist group SOS Racisme and its network of community centers.
Academic text (2006) -
At about the same time, a white teaching assistant in women's studies walked into her first class of the semester, announced, "This is an antiracist classroom," and mandated as an initial assignment that the students, all of whom were white, should write about their first encounter with a person of color.
Academic text (1998) -
Building on my recent book (Robinson, 2018) about how power and privilege play out in progressive communities, this work seeks to understand so-called antiracist projects at the meso level.
Academic text (2018) -
I also noted places in YA literature where characters broke from dominant discourses of whiteness and performed antiracist identities or complicated white identities through discourses associated with social class or gender.
Academic text (2012) -
Aha, I gloated, the French would finally be confronted, not just with anticolonial uprisings far from home but with a mass antiracist social movement on the mainland.
Academic text (2006) -
One wonders how many older works, if any, in the "mainstream" culture will survive the application of criteria enlisted in the name of promoting antiracist and antisexist curricula.
Academic text (1993) -
However, in digital spaces, a counterdiscourse emerged that supported the report as an antiracist project: calling out privilege, revealing chasms of distrust, and offering alternative narratives.
Academic text (2018) -
The professor emphasized the importance of creating an antiracist curriculum to promote equality among students.
Synonyms
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4.2
Being fair to people of different races
Against racism and unfair treatment based on race
That prevents unfair treatment of people because of race, gender, or religion
Showing no unfair feelings and helping stop unfair treatment
Believing that all people should have equal rights and chances
Antonyms
How Racist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word antiracist starts with anti- meaning 'against' and includes race meaning 'groups of people', like in antibiotic where anti- means 'against'. So an antiracist policy or action is one that is 'against' racism and supports equal treatment for everyone.