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What does racialism mean?

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Noun
  1. The belief in the existence and significance of racial categories.
  2. The belief in racial separatist ideologies, the emphasis on perceived social and cultural differences among races.
  3. (Britain, dated) Racism.
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In all the social sciences, the doctrines of racialism were accepted as a given.
Nevertheless, varied combinations of ancient philosophical essentialism and nineteenth-century scientific racialism linger to this day in American folk concepts of race.
That was a decade before the October Revolution, but racialism was already widely accepted as the mark of the Left in many countries, including England.
This changed towards the end of the century, when a turn to evolutionist Darwinian theory and German nationalism drove German anthropology towards racialism.
At worst, it may see the world racked by explosions of racialism, xenophobia and ultra-nationalism.
Its greatest and most necessitous demand was to stand apart from anything in the nature of racialism.

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