Questions tagged [racism]
Racism might relate to either: 1. The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. 2. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
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During segregation and Jim Crow laws in the US what happened if a person was allowed to use white facilities but other users objected? [closed]
In Nazi Germany everything was formal and on paper, whatever you looked even if you were in yermulke, if you had a paper allowing you to go somewhere and do something, no-one could object. But what ...
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Re-imposition of slavery and racist laws in France under Napoleon
The last chapter of the Tom Reiss's biography of General Alex Dumas tells in some detail the dark story of the re-imposition of slavery and very harsh race-based oppression by Napoleon, abrogating ...
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Why Oppress a Negligible Population (Stolen Generations)?
I’m Australian. From a few years after our country’s federation in 1901 until the late 60s (and in some places, illegally, into the 1970s) we separated mixed-race children from Indigenous families in ...
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Were these two racist quotes written by Marx?
I found the two quotes below at
Pluspedia: Rassismus und Antisemitismus in den Werken von Marx und Engels (Racism and anti-Semitism in the works of Marx and Engels)
(and also several other websites), ...
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What were the racial views of the Nazis towards the Greeks?
I was going through this article on the Greek Genocide (1914-1922), and stumbled upon this quote from the 1935 publication, Ankara: An interpretation of the new becoming in Turkey, by Norbert Bischoff:...
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What did anti-Greek stereotyping look like in the United States in the early 20th century?
I am writing a story that is set in the 1920s. Several of the characters in the story are either immigrants from southern or eastern Europe (e.g., Greece, Italy) or their children, and I'm trying to ...
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Did classical Romans have preferences for slaves based on ethnicity or racial characteristics?
I have read of Greeks who were valued as tutors, secretaries, etc, presumably because they were literate and other races (barbarii) tended not to be.
Are there any historical records of general Roman ...
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Does the idea of white Europeans being the "true Aryans" come from the British India? [closed]
I have recently had a conversation with a man from India over the Internet and he told me this interesting claim.
He said that "Aryan" meant "noble" in Sanskrit, and the British, ...
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What are the flags in this Yellow Peril Cartoon from Italy?
Can somebody help me to identify the different flags in this Italian Cartoon from 1900?
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Were Russians less racist than I thought? [closed]
I recently found out that Alexander Pushkin's great grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, came from Africa and was black. Apparently he was abducted as a slave and given to Peter the great as a gift, ...
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Did Nazi party members request exemption for their pre-war Jewish acquaintances?
So I heard this tale from a teacher many years ago, but cannot find much about it on the internet.
The story as far as I remember is as follows:
That Goebbels complained on many occasions about the ...
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Who was this US civil rights leader?
Back in my high school days (I'm 23 now) we learned about a lot of topics but the one that stood out to me was the period of heavy segregation, racism and important historical figures from that time ...
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MLK used "negro" several times in his "I have a dream"-address. Could white "liberals" at the time also use "negro" as a neutral word for blacks?
According to this transcription of Martin Luther King's I have a dream-address, he used negro 15 times in his speech, as a neutral word for black people.
Did/could "leading", documented non-...
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What do the numbers on this 1960s anti-integration sign mean?
I was reading a CNN article this morning that features the below image:
Protests over integrating schools is not new. In 1965 members of a parents’ association picketed outside the Board of Education ...
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Did Nathan Bedford Forrest wear a wig or dye his hair?
I have seen pictures of Nathan Bedford Forrest with a dark beard and light hair on his head. Given that his head hair color does not match his beard color, did he wear a wig or dye his hair? I have ...
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Did most citizens of the British Empire hold racists views before the post-war period? [closed]
Racism during Imperial Britain has come back to the fore with the recent protests in the US and UK, in relation to the death of George Floyd. In particular, Churchill has been alleged as racists, and ...
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Did Austrian chief of staff Franz Riml say that the only way to correct the Russophile Ukrainians is to exterminate them?
Several Russian pages claim that Austrian general Franz Riml von Altrosenburg said the following:
Galician Russians can be divided in two groups:
a) Russophiles and
b) Ukrainophiles.
If ...
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Why, in general, did the racist theories perceived Germanic as superior? [closed]
I am aware that probably we have tons of examples of racist theories that do not put the Germanic peoples in the top. However, I find it remarkable that most of the proponents of scientific racism in ...
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When and why have the Neo-nazi view of Slavic peoples changed?
Hitler's views on Slavs were unambiguous. He considered them to be Untermensch and wanted them exterminated so that Germans could take their place. For more on Hitler's hostility to the Slavs, see ...
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What is the real origin of the stereotype that associates fried chickens with African Americans?
I knew for a long time very vaguely that there were some connections between fried chickens and African Americans.
And it started by listening this product of the celebrity Key & Peele.
And he ( ...
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What were the most common reactions to Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
I'm curious about the general reactions to historical events in civil rights by people wanting to keep the status quo. However, this information is hard to find. News clippings I can find are ...
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Did Adolf Hitler ever address the fact that his own appearance was almost an exact opposite of what he considered the ideal Aryan appearance?
Hitler's ideal Aryan / Nordic appearance was: tall, blond, blue eyed, broad shouldered.
Hitler's own appearance was: short, dark haired, brown eyed, slight and slumpy shoulders.
And most of the Nazi ...
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Were Russians in the cold war era USA discriminated against for their ethnicity?
As a Chinese living in the western world, I am a little bit concerned about the next decades where there might be a war or a series of conflicts between the rising Chinese power and the current world ...
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How did US anti-Irish sentiment decline?
Anti-Irish sentiment in the United States previously involved depictions of Irish migrants as non-human primates. While historians have debated the prevalence of contemporaneous "No Irish Need Apply" ...
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Why did the Mongols outlaw intermarriage between the Mongols and the Chinese and forbid the Chinese from learning the Mongolian language?
When the Mongols invaded China and established the Yuan dynasty, why did they outlaw intermarriage and forbid the Chinese from learning the Mongolian language?
I am reading this from a textbook for ...
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Why were blacks still victimized in the Northern states after slavery's abolition?
David J. Bodenhamer PhD, Indiana University Bloomington. The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction (2018). p. 77 Middle.
A persistent antislavery crusade challenged the constitutional
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Which French Revolutionary figure thought black slaves could oversee monkeys for labor?
I'm operating off of fuzzy memory for this question but I know I have encountered this bizarre (and offensive: fair warning) historical figure who I am inquiring about here before in my previous ...
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Was race really unimportant in the 1660's?
There's this quote by Lerone Bennett Jr. where he said:
Back there [in the 1660s], before Jim Crow, before the invention of the Negro or the white man or the words and concepts to describe them, ...
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Why did Confederate General Forrest leave the KKK?
I've watched a video with a simplified version of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's history. It was in the context of contemporary pressure to remove statues of Confederate leaders.
I did some fact-...
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Where can I find information regarding the orphanages for mixed children in Nazi Germany?
I cannot remember what they were called, and as a result I am unable to find basic information regarding them. From what I remember, a bunch of women from territories occupied by Nazi Germany were ...
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Are there precedents of 'I am not a racist' from US Presidents?
Prior to Trump, has a US President ever explicitly denied being a racist?
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How successful (or not) was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 concerning employment discrimination?
In 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which greatly increased the federal government’s power concerning personal property. Using the Commerce Clause and the recent SCOTUS decision in Wickard v....
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Origin of scientific racism?
Modern scientific racism became wide spread during the age of enlightenment. Is there a single person that could be labeled as the 'father' of modern scientific racism?
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Why would selling watermelons in bulk be mocking?
The following passage mentions African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, but the bold's figurative, possibly racist meaning eludes me.
Source: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth ...
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Was being in the KKK politically/socially acceptable in early 1900's American South?
This question was inspired by the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, set in Mississippi in 1937. While the events are clearly fictional, the film draws a lot of historical inspiration from real prople ...
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Were there any notable historic figures that weren't racist by modern standards? [closed]
With all this talk of Confederate monuments, I started wondering if there was anyone in history that couldn't be considered racist by some modern standard.
I understand many historical figures didn'...
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How did desegregation affect the jobs of black school teachers in the South?
In its October 6, 1954 issue, the Southern Presbyterian Journal published a report from US News & World Report that suggested that black teachers in the South would be rendered unemployed by ...
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In the early 1900s, how did US politicians treat black dignitaries from other countries?
Are there any historical records of US politicians (especially southern politicians) treating black dignitaries (especially royalty) with great pomp and ceremony, while simultaneously and ...
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Racism, or Nationalism, represented in 19th century English Wills?
Lucy Monoux, 1777-1843, was the daughter of a baronet, and rich, owning at least one farm and a large house with its own land. She wrote a will in 1841 leaving ownership of most of her estate to ...
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Black & white marriage in the US in the past?
I have just watched the film "Loving" (A film depicting an interracial couple in the late 1950s in the US state of Virginia.).
I wondered why black & white married couples in the US in the past ...
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What, if anything, did Hitler think of the Canadian government's treatment of the Native Americans?
What, if anything, did Hitler think of the Canadian government's treatment of the Native Americans?
Asking because the TVTropes "Final Solution" page said (now removed):
While the Holocaust may be ...
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What was the ancient Greeks view on people of African descent?
I am interested in sources (reference author, work, paragraph/fragment) describing the view ancient Greeks held about people of African descent.
By that I mean those whom they called Αιθίοπες (...
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Did any black athletes other than Jesse Owens win any medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
When looking over the famous 1936 Berlin Olympics, I found out that Hitler did not snub Jesse Owens, but did other Olympic winners (though I don't doubt that Jesse would've been snubbed by him in the ...
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What happened to people of color on interstate railroads traveling from segregated states to non-segregated states?
I'm imagining people of color taking a train (or bus, for that matter) from the south to the north during the period when segregation was largely phased out in the north but still law in the south. ...
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When did "whites only" signs (racial segregation) become illegal in the USA?
I'm trying to find out when racial segregation and specifically "whites only" signs became illegal in the USA.
Researching Wikipedia has not led me to a clear conclusion. It seems like segregation ...
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Context of sign telling Japanese people to "keep moving"
In this picture, someone has put up a sign saying "JAPS KEEP MOVING - THIS IS A WHITE MAN'S NEIGHBORHOOD". In case this was not enough, the window has a sign saying "JAPS KEEP OUT" and some other ...
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Were there any non-Afrikaner apartheid supporters in South Africa before 1994?
In South Africa before 1994 (i.e., during apartheid), were there any non-Afrikaners who were so racist as to supporter apartheid? I'm wondering about individuals of British Isles descent, or other ...
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Did churches in American south have to be segregated by law?
Years ago I spoke with some people who were members of a church in either Georgia or Florida. They told me that they had heard that during segregation their church had had a red thread or cord that ...
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Why did the Australian IOC deny that Peter Norman was excluded from the 1972 Olympics for supporting racial equality?
There was an Australian Sprinter Peter Norman who came second in the 1968 Olympics.
Peter Norman known for his support of John Carlos and Tommie Smith when they made their famous raised-fist gesture ...
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What are some examples of racism in pre-modern literature? [closed]
I just got thinking about this and really cannot think of a possible answer to it.
In old literature, for example, the works of Shakespeare (which I know were plays but this question may still apply ...
