Word: racialization
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...Bancroft took his Japan post last November. He was thrust at once into a situation tense with another race problem, into a country where racial ill-will was running strong because of the U. S. Immigration Act of 1924. Then, if ever, he had a difficult task...
...Commission then studied the problem of rectifying errors in text books, which were alleged to be a mainspring of racial prejudices. A resolution, subsequently passed, empowered the Institute to call the attention of any country to such errors...
...affairs of the Russian church in the North American continent have habitually been in the law courts. New York City judges of many different creeds and racial extractions have had to decide between this and that claimant to the archepiscopal title and, by corollary, to the vast properties of the Church in this continent...
...Significance. War being an irrational thing, its aftermath verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...
...individual). In general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms...