anti-racistn.adj.
A. n.
An opponent of racism.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > opposition to > one who
anti-racist1938
1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 302/2 On the other hand, he recognises the importance, as anti-racists, of H. J. Muller, Humboldt, [etc.].
B. adj.
Opposing or inhibiting racism.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > racist > opposing racism
anti-racist1971
1971 N.Y. Times 12 Jan. 6/6 The recent awarding of $200,000..to 19 anti-racist organizations..had some ‘negative results’.
1989 Social Work Today 23 Nov. 22/3 The above strategy can be utilised for the development of anti-oppressive practice teaching, that is anti-sexist, anti-classist and anti-racist because it addresses all power imbalances.
Derivatives
anti-ˈracism n.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > opposition to
anti-racism1971
1971 Black Scholar Jan. 52/1 Blackness, the black author says, despite his antiracism and despite his belief in the potentialities of man, blackness must not disappear.
1993 Eagle (Madison, New Jersey) 29 Apr. 4/1 Hentoff argues why should one victim be more precious than the next under the law? ‘It's McCarthyism under the benign umbrella of anti-racism,’ he argues.
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