Definition of Racial discrimination

1. Noun. Discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race.

Exact synonyms: Racialism, Racism
Generic synonyms: Discrimination, Favoritism, Favouritism
Specialized synonyms: Racial Profiling
Derivative terms: Racialist, Racist

Definition of Racial discrimination

1. Noun. Discrimination on grounds of ethnicity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Racial Discrimination

rachitic rosary
rachitic scoliosis
rachitides
rachitis
rachitis tarda
rachitism
rachitogenic
rachitome
rachitomes
rachitomy
racial
racial discrimination (current term)
racial extermination
racial immunity
racial integration
racial profiling
racial segregation
racial slur
racial slurs
racial spoils
racial stocks
racial supremacy
racialise
racialised
racialises
racialising

Literary usage of Racial discrimination

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Capital of Human Rights?: Abuses in the State of Georgia by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1996)
"Considering that the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of racial discrimination of 20 November 1963 (General Assembly resolution ..."

2. From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan by Judith Sunderland (2002)
"9 In 2000, the CERD Committee issued a General Recommendation, or authoritative interpretation, on the gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination in ..."

3. Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" by Smita Narula (1999)
"1161-1163), the Committee on the Elimination of racial discrimination considered the tenth to fourteenth periodic reports of India (CERD/C/299/Add.3) and ..."

4. United Nations System, The; The Policies of Member States by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene Martin Lyons, John E. Trent (1995)
"In the 1990s, there was an increasing interest in economic issues and a declining emphasis on colonialism, racial discrimination, and apartheid. ..."

5. Struggling for Ethnic Identity: Czechoslovakia's Endangered Gypsies by Rachel Tritt (1992)
"States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial ..."

6. Struggling for Ethnic Identity: The Gypsies of Hungary by Gyorgy Feher, Holly Cartner, Lois Whitman (1993)
"... states to undertake to eliminate racial discrimination: I. States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means ..."

7. Public Attitudes in Contemporary South Africa: Insights from an Hsrc Survey by Human Sciences Research Council (2002)
"Factors influencing racial discrimination and racism in South Africa This section highlights factors that may have contributed to reducing racial ..."

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