More precise word or phrase for neutral connotation of racism
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00:00 More Precise Word Or Phrase For Neutral Connotation Of Racism
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Raciality recognizes "inherent differences among the various human races" and stops there.
A citation that may be relevant to explain the usage of raciality [emphasis mine]:
… raciation and raciality are important and unavoidable social facts. They describe the way people's racial histories and identities inform how they "organize meaningfully, give order to, and thus define and construct the worlds in which we live, our life-words (Outlaw, 1996, p.5). Raciality, ethinicity, and gender "are constitutive of the personal and social being of persons … they make up the historically mediated structural features of human life-worlds and inform lived experience" (p.174)
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Outlaw emphasizes that raciality is a postive phenomenon, and he stresses that "racialism neither is nor need become racism" (1996, p.8)
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Racism comprises "sets of beliefs, images and practices that are 'imbued with negative valuation' and employed as modes of exclusion, inferiorization, subordination, and exploitation in order to deny targeted racial or ethnic groups full participation in the social, political, economic, and cultural life of a political community" (p.8)
Racialism is the positive recognition of how the constitute features of one's lifeworld, one's personality and sense of historical and cultural identitiy, comprise a set of preconscious filters and assumptions that frame how life is felt and lived. Racialism's valuation is positive, not negative. … We can celebrate the constitutive elements of our and others' raciality in a way imbued with generosity and recognition quite different from the brutal, negative celebration of one's racism.
Stephen Brookfield: The Power of Critical Theory for Adult Learning And Teaching, p.281-282 (GoogleBooks)
ANSWER 2
Score 1
Consider racialism
"'Racism' implies a presumption of racial superiority and a harmful intent, whereas advocates of positive racial differences use the word 'racialism' to indicate a strong interest in matters of race without the presumption of superiority or the desire to cause harm to others."
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A little too specific maybe, but: genetic determinism?
After a little research, it seems that biological determinism fits better:
Biological determination (also biologism) is the interpretation of humans and human life from a strictly biological point of view, and it is closely related to genetic determinism. Another definition is that biological determinism is the hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism's individual genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) completely determine how a system behaves or changes over time.