Racismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French racisme, equivalent to race +‎ -ism.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɹeɪsɪzm̩/

名詞

racism (usually uncountable, plural racisms)

1. The belief that there are distinct human races with inherent differences which determine their abilities, and generally that some are superior and others inferior.
   • 1932 October 21, Sisley Huddleston, “Europe Painted in Fascist Colors”, in Christian Science Monitor‎, →ISSN, page 8:

     It is altogether inaccurate to suggest that Europe is being indoctrinated with Fascism or Racism.

   • 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:

     He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.

   • 2011, Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism, →ISBN, page 1987:

     But other kinds of talk and text that are not visible, so called covert racist discourse, may be just as important in reproducing the culturally shared ideas that underpin racism.

2. The policies, practices, or systems (e.g. government or political) promoting this belief or promoting the dominance of one or more races over others.

   Martin Luther King spoke out against racism.

   • 1993 September 24, David T. Wellman, Portraits of White Racism, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 210:

     In part, the answer is that racism extends considerably beyond prejudiced beliefs. The essential feature of racism is not hostility or misperception, but rather the defense of a system from which advantage is derived on the basis of race. The manner in which the defense is articulated – either with hostility or subtlety – is not nearly as important as the fact that it insures the continuation of a privileged relationship. Thus it is necessary to broaden the definition of racism beyond prejudice to include sentiments that in their consequence, if not in their intent, support the racial status quo.

   • 2013, Tyler T. Schmidt, Desegregating Desire, →ISBN:

     In “Crazy for This Democracy” (1945), Hurston critiques the US government's racism at home and abroad, including its silence on the anticolonial movements in Africa.

3. Prejudice or discrimination based upon race or ethnicity; (countable) an action of such discrimination.
   • 2007, Joseph Godson Amamoo, Ghana: 50 years of independence:

     For, if racism against non-whites is morally wrong and unjustifiable, then how can racism against whites be morally right and justifiable?

   • 2016, Bernard Guerin, How to Rethink Human Behavior, →ISBN:

     This was partly true, but the biggest thing stopping him was that he had tried going to a college in Adelaide before and grew tired of the little racisms and discrimination that he got there.

   • 2016 August 25, Giles Fraser, “The alt right is old racism for the tech-savvy generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 June 2023:

     Of course, racism has a long and inglorious history in US politics. But it now has a very new iteration in the nerdy tech-savvy generation of the alt right. Racism 2.0. They don't speak of eugenics but rather of maintaining "human biodiversity". And they have a thing about IQ tests showing that white people are cleverer than others. […] For in cross-pollinating with the anonymity and viciousness of the internet, with porn and video games replacing Christianity as the common language in which conservatives talk to each other, with openly anti-democratic impulses being justified as rationality, the virus of racism is capable of spreading as never before.

使用する際の注意点

• Usage has begun to shift in the 21st century to particularly focus on structural power dynamics that underlie racist institutions and policies rather than personal prejudices.
• Some speakers use the term racism loosely to refer to prejudice or discrimination based not upon race but upon other factors; this is nonstandard:

• The term reverse racism has been used to denote personal racial prejudice by a group that is or has been oppressed/disempowered, against a more powerful group. Some argue that this distinction does not need to be made and advocate that this be called simply racism, while others argue that the term racism should not be used at all in such cases, as racism is distinguished from racial prejudice by being supported by institutions and social structures.
• For many speakers, the term racism implies conscious belief or behavior, but this is not always the case.

同意語

• (racial discrimination): See Thesaurus:racism

上位語

• (racial discrimination): See Thesaurus:prejudice

等位語

• (racial discrimination): See Thesaurus:prejudice

派生語

関連する語

参考

参照

Further reading

• racism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “racism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Ramics, cimars