protoracist

See also: proto-racist

English

Adjective

protoracist (comparative more protoracist, superlative most protoracist)

1. Alternative form of proto-racist
   • 1997, Albert S. Lindemann, Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews, →ISBN, page 74:

     These protoracist notions differ in important ways from the "science of race" that emerged in the nineteenth century, to say nothing of the crude and vicious applications of it under Nazi rule.

   • 2009, Anton Pelinka, Karin Bischof, Karin Stogner, Handbook of Prejudice, →ISBN, page 158:

     One of the oldest known religious prejudices, which has been passed on through the centuries and in various cultures and religious contexts and even adopted in a protoracist form, is that against the Egyptian religion and its followers.

   • 2010, David J. Mattingly, Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire, →ISBN:

     In the Roman world, as in more recent colonial societies, protoracist views about the inferiority of “barbarian” peoples helped to justify war, subjugation, mass murder, enslavement, and exploitation on an unprecedented scale across vast territories.

Noun

protoracist (plural protoracists)

1. Alternative form of proto-racist
   • 2002, Barry Strauss, Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War, →ISBN:

     The Greeks have been variously represented: as aristocrats or democrats, as unravished brides of quietness or sexual misfits in need of a therapist's couch, as narcissists or altruists, as protoracists or open-minded egalitarians.

   • 2007, Karen Tracy, James P. Mcdaniel, Bruce E. Gronbeck, The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy, →ISBN:

     Schoolmaster, meanwhile, cannot brand the third-grade class at Mesa Elementary as protoracists (a conclusion that I am sure she does not believe anyway).

Anagrams

• corporatist