racial pride
Group heritage esteem
Racial pride is a feeling of satisfaction or self-worth derived from one's racial identity and heritage.
The term appears across the political spectrum with different connotations—sometimes describing celebration of cultural achievements and history, sometimes associated with supremacist ideologies that assert one group's superiority.
Context determines whether the phrase signals positive identity affirmation or exclusionary nationalism: She spoke about racial pride as connection to her ancestors' resilience versus The rally promoted racial pride as a cover for white nationalism.
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ethnic heritageAncestral cultural background
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- identityWho someone is
- cultural identityBelonging through shared traditions
nationalism · ethnicity · culture · roots · belonging · solidarity · community · kinship · native land · lineage · tradition · shared history · motherland · brotherhood · unity · supremacy · separatism · tribalism
- Harlem RenaissanceLangston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
- racismwhite supremacy, bigotry, segregation, hate crime, antisemitism
- raceethnicity, biracial, multiracial, white, Black
- Nation of IslamNation of Islam, Malcolm X, Black Muslims, Final Call, bean pie
- NegritudeMartinique, Senegal, black consciousness, African identity, colonial resistance
racial pridecolorblindness
Impaired hue discrimination
race-blindness · universalism · deracination · cosmopolitanism · individualism
race, racial, racially, racialize, racialized, racialization, racism, racist, races