racial prejudice
Discrimination by ethnicity
Racial prejudice is bias against people based on their race or ethnicity—preconceived negative attitudes held without adequate knowledge or experience.
It ranges from unconscious assumptions to overt hostility: Racial prejudice shaped hiring practices for decades.
The term often appears in discussions of discrimination and civil rights, distinct from but related to racism, which implies systemic power dynamics.
- Jim Crow lawsPost-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
- segregationForced separation by group
- stereotypingOversimplified group-based judgments
- implicit biasAutomatic, unintentional stereotyping
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
othering · skin color · scapegoating · colonialism · slavery · colorism · the talk · microaggressions · apartheid · judicial bias · racialization · hate crimes · profiling · ethnocentrism · xenophobia · lynching · hatred · supremacy
- racismwhite supremacy, bigotry, segregation, hate crime, antisemitism
- biasbigotry, sexism, ageism, stereotyping, discrimination
- Chinese AmericaChinese Exclusion Act, Chinatown, Chinatowns, transcontinental railroad, railroad workers
- integrationintegration, synthesis, fusion, merging, unifying
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
- OthelloOthello, Desdemona, Iago, Emilia, Bianca
racial prejudicecosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
colorblindness · racial equality · open-mindedness · racial harmony · impartiality
racial prejudiceracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
racial justice · egalitarianism · racial equity · racial harmony · integration
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