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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
racist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a racist/sexist remark (=an offensive remark showing racist/sexist attitudes)
▪ The men are accused of making racist remarks to a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare.
▪ When faced with a sexist remark, women have to either confront the person or ignore it.
racial/racist stereotypes
▪ The novel has been criticized for reinforcing racial stereotypes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
▪ Canoeists should be looking to their own backyard to promote an anti racist approach within the sport.
▪ He was introduced in 1910, but has recently been decried as insulting by anti-racist campaigners.
white
▪ We can either use the Carl Rowan method, which is to label every white conservative a racist.
▪ And I can't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players.
▪ Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women.
▪ Relatives claim that a feud with white racists, which they say police ignored, points to something more sinister.
■ NOUN
attack
▪ Sly had not heard about the terrible racist attack on the Bullens Creek community - not many people had.
▪ Do you know about the increase of racist attacks and murders in Britain?
▪ Yildiz was killed on the streets of Glasgow last weekend in what is thought to have been an unprovoked racist attack.
attitude
▪ Twenty forces do not have tests to measure whether their officers have racist attitudes.
▪ Do they have sexist, ageist or racist attitudes that might emerge at a critical point in your work together?
▪ Mr Torode's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes.
discourse
▪ Finally there are some deeper structural factors which constitute the hidden or unconscious premises of these types of racist discourse.
▪ The contradictoriness and ambivalence of racist discourses and interactions are produced by a complex combination of social and psychic structures and forces.
▪ Thus racist discourses and practices are seen to emerge in specific forms.
▪ The force of such metaphors is all the greater because of the unconscious effect which racist discourse itself exerts.
▪ A rhetorical approach would point directly at the argumentative nature of racist discourse.
remark
▪ Most prefer to swallow their anger or hurt when professors make sexist or racist remarks.
society
▪ Social workers must recognise, therefore, that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group.
▪ In racist societies, subject races seem to be slightly more likely to have daughters than sons.
▪ BBoth men emerged from racist societies as champions of equal rights.
▪ Again Cornerville man or the taxi dancer are operating within capitalist, patriarchal and, frequently, racist societies.
view
▪ You are so stupid that you are a fan of black music and yet hold racist views.
▪ The allegation is dangerous and insulting to Morrissey, especially when you consider that he has never publicly espoused racist views.
▪ His racist views will be rejected by all the people in this country regardless of party.
violence
▪ It was a march against racist policing and racist violence.
■ VERB
call
▪ He gets called a racist but I don't think he is.
▪ Dances with Wolves was so biased towards the Sioux that the Crow Nation publicly called it racist.
▪ Almost invariably they fell for it. Call them racist and they would do anything to prove you wrong.
▪ George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime, but it features a black criminal, so he is called racist.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He is accused of being a racist after refusing to be interviewed by a black journalist.
▪ She denies being a racist, claiming to be merely patriotic.
▪ The minister denied that he was a racist, but called for tougher controls on immigration.
▪ There has been a rise in attacks on asylum seekers made by skinheads and other racists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Racist attitudes are not simply articulated in the vicious attacks of racist thugs.
▪ Appendix C shows the anti-racism statement together with an extract from one such guidance paper on dealing with racist clients.
▪ How such racist pornographic material escaped the rye of black activists presents a problem.
▪ It involved a group of white-owned businesses in Mississippi being boycotted by civil rights groups accusing them of racist practices.
▪ The contents of the racist pathology and the material circumstances to which it can be made to correspond are thus left untouched.
▪ The inquest had heard that police failed him when he begged for protection from a racist gang.
▪ When the state looks upon such people as second-class, it is no wonder that racists take the same view.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
racist

1932 as a noun, 1938 as an adjective, from race (n.2); racism is first attested 1936 (from French racisme, 1935), originally in the context of Nazi theories. But they replaced earlier words, racialism (1871) and racialist (1917), both often used early 20c. in a British or South African context. In the U.S., race hatred, race prejudice had been used, and, especially in 19c. political contexts, negrophobia.

Wiktionary
racist

a. Of, relating to, or advocating racism. n. A person who believes a particular race is superior to others.

WordNet
racist
  1. adj. based on racial intolerance; "racist remarks"

  2. discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [syn: antiblack, anti-Semitic, anti-Semite(a)]

  3. n. a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others [syn: racialist]

Usage examples of "racist".

Jones, who we yesterday characterized as a no-good, racist, homophobe, sexist bigot, is in fact none of these things.

Frantz Fanon argued that racist superstructures are permanently embedded in the psychology, economy, and culture of our society.

If I could only raise my head from the pillow, metaphorically I must take off my woolly hat to whatever acned racist geck superhacker was using the stolen computer, and what software he must have written in anticipation.

Too long, oh Lawd, has our beautiful black beauties been called synonymous by white racists.

Who wants to be called an isolationist or a nativist by the corporate Right, and a racist or a bigot by the multicultural Left?

Hobie was now convinced that refined sugar was the product of a ruthless oligopoly, the subjugators of Cuba and Hawaii, who had purified their product in order to addict children, while appealing to the basic racist subtext of American life by turning a brown commodity white.

So for the good of the environment, and the bank accounts of several well-placed individuals, private ownership of vehicles was labeled un-American, elitist, racist, wasteful, phallocentric, and just plain bad.

But how can such a racist homophobe be permitted to continue in sports?

Oliver North and others supposedly told some racist or homophobic jokes at a Republican dinner?

America, which is usually portrayed as an oppressive, racist, sexist, homophobic nation with few redeeming qualities.

Surely it was not based on racial or genetic pseudoscience, for even racist Californians conceded that many Mexican immigrants, against great odds, soon found parity in every sense with native Californians.

His unspoken, apparently racist, message was echoed by a resident of Parlier, another nearby town that has also become essentially all Mexican.

Then the parents picketed the school, protesting my racist, antiblack attitudes.

In fact, it is precisely because this relativist and culturalist argument is assumed to be necessarily antiracist that the dominant ideology of our entire society can appear to be against racism, and that imperial racist theory can appear not to be racist at all.

This shift in racist theory shows us how imperial theory can adopt what is traditionally thought to be an antiracist position and still maintain a strong principle of social separation.