quasiracism

English

Etymology

From quasi- +‎ racism.

Noun

quasiracism (uncountable)

1. Practices and institutions that result in racist distinctions and discrimination, but which are not consciously motivated by racist ideology.
   • 2005, Peter Ratcliffe, Race, Ethnicity And Nation, →ISBN:

     The significance of “popular” quasiracism lies in the deterministic treatment of ethnic or national differences as sharply delineating human groups, precluding close and friendly contacts and the passing of individuals from one group to the other.

   • 2011, Russell Blackford, Freedom of Religion and the Secular State, →ISBN:

     This suggests that commentators such as Mahmood would do well to understand that quasiracism does not underlie all attacks on Islam.

   • 2016, Leroy Wilson, Reversal of Trends: A Black Man’s Journey across the Mason-Dixon Line, →ISBN:

     Of course there was the ever-present overall general underlying widespread everyday quasiracism made that much more intense by the scrutiny of the state of South Carolina by the NAACP and others.