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race noun ancestry, birth, breed, class, cultural group, culture, descent, ethnic group, ethnic stock, family, folk, genealogy, genus, group, kind, line, parentage, people, phylum, stem, stirps, stock, strain Associated concepts: discrimination, race, creed, and color race verb accelerate, bolt, chase, compete, dart, dash, engage in a contest of speed, enter a competition, fly, gallop, hasten, hie, hurry, hustle, move at an accelerated rate of speed, plunge ahead, pursue, run, run a race, run swiftly, rush, scamper, scramble, scud, speed, sprint, spurt, tear, whiz Associated concepts: assumption of risk, race to the recorddng office, racing commission See also: ancestry, competition, contest, descent, hasten, lineage, origin, strife How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Supporters of the Ordinance, especially those from the grassroots, almost always followed up their rhetoric of "black peril" derived from racial theory and "black plague" derived from urban reformism with reflections on the black threat to property. Here, Sophia, Loy's fictitious rendition of herself, conveys Loy's racial theory of the "dueling blood" she thought characterized her own blood. This type of reasoning is very much in contrast with Western medievalist thinking, but particularly so with that of the 19th century imperialist theorists who dismissed the notion of 'diversity' as a positive concept and espoused the racial theory in explaining the differences among human beings. |
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