Responses on: "What is your personal definition of racism and/or race?"

Informant #1751: Race is the ethnic grop you belong to in addition to skin color and soemtimes hair type. To be racist is to be prejudice against a person because of their racial affiliation.

Informant #1755: I define racism as a specific group of people who are stereotyped as having a particular set of characteristics and then treated unfairly because of these characteristics.

Informant #1757: when someon does not treat me as an indivisual

Informant #1758: racism is treating someone differently based on the color of their skin...

Informant #1761: oppression of people of color through stereotypes, discrimination and institutional constructs.

Informant #1765: Racism is discrimination and hate towards others of a different race/ethnicity than one's own. Racism can be both an individual and institutional prejudice.

Informant #1767: racism: discrimination and prejudices against people because of their race. race: a person's ethnic and/or social background

Informant #1768: Judging someone based on their appearance/ethnicity

Informant #1772: Not accepting another individual for what they are.

Informant #1774: Racism to me is when the majority or power group of people use their power to keep minorities down or disadvantaged.

Informant #1775: Racism is institutionalized power that is used to deny people or a person access to resources that will benefit that person or people. The denial is based upon perceived stereotypes. Race is an "agreed upon" definition of a person's color, cultural and heritage. Typically the person's race, cultural and heritage has been defined by the dominant group or society.

Informant #1779: One race of people thinking other races are inferior to them.

Informant #1780: Racism is the result of environmental conditioning. Race is the term man developed to show differences in ethnic background.

Informant #1781: social construction of ethnicity

Informant #1784: My own personal defination of racism is that everyone is the same and not one over the other no matter what the circumstances. In the long ago it seemed that white people were(from my observation) thinking they were the only ones that should live on this world and when someone else who was different skin color that they made them inferior to everything, and I mean everything!. People don't in my opinion know who our creator who loves us is. If education is a big thing then what I read in the book said that sdomeone don't care what we are but who we are, and that initally evil entered into the world and people separated and went to different parts of the world where; of course skin color became a main issue and then people of one skin color went wigged out and forced the issue. i am proud to say that I am married to a very lovely black(yes black) woman, that I am proud to say she is a strong woman and a charm to be around and has gone thru a whole lot against her but that through it all she still hangs tuff even with me, it's been almost 9 yrs. now and we have had disagreements but there have been more good days. But that's a relationship in marriage isn't it? I am not a racist never been one and I hate all who come downor against one person just for there color or anything else in theirlives for no reason.

Informant #1786: Racism is not liking a particular group of people because you don't like the racial group that they belong to. It's not based on the person having done something to you personally. A broad generalization

Informant #1787: Racism is like pornography; I'm not sure if I can define it, but I know and feel what it is.

Informant #1814: Race is the categorical grouping of people based on the color of their skin, often used interchangeably with enthicity. Racism is that act or practice of decrimination based on race.

Informant #1816: not identifying with an individual but rather assuming based on color or race

Informant #1824: Where you and your ancestors come from including your culture.

Informant #1894: hatred for someone becasue of there color, religion, sex, etc...

Informant #1950: Race is a classification of people stemming from the original categories of negroid, caucasoid, and mongloid.

Informant #1964: race is a classification meant to separate people based on the color of their skin

Informant #1965: Race is a label which society created to classify individuals

Informant #1990: Racism is hatred of another person or persons due to their ethnicity

Informant #1998: where your heritage is

Informant #2028: Race is a white supremacist fantasy created to justify the subjugation of human beings for profit.

Informant #2029: my personal definition of racism is when a group hates another group because of thier "race"

Informant #2030: Nothing more than what color or culture a person is or comes from.

Informant #2032: Race - idea that people originated from three different types of humans caucasoid (superior) mongoloid, and negroid (inferior) Racism - discriminating against other humans based on the idea that there are races and one is superior

Informant #2034: Race is identifying a person by their color of the skin, ancestral background, and physical features. Racism is a negative outcome that is the direct result from the feeling of inferiority towards a person of another race. These negative outcomes include but are not limited to including using racial slur, lynching, assualt, mental abuse, physical abuse and etc.

Informant #2035: Racism is harboring ill feelings or performing acts against another person who is of another race. Race is what separates people into specific groups.

Informant #2036: Race is your genetic make up.

Informant #2039: race in america is everything. In many ways it detrmines your future (especially if you are a black male). racism is an illusion created by white supremacy.

Informant #2042: racism is a socially constructed idea that has no real biological basis. there is truly no difference biologically between a black woman and a white woman. That doesnt mean it doesnt mean racism doesnt exist. Racism is a real and thriving institution in america based on oppresion and white privledge.

Informant #2060: Believing on race is superior to another

Informant #2065: race is something created by humans to justify their inhumanity

Informant #2077: Racism....the discrimination based on a belief that one group is more superior than another.

Informant #2080: Being a racist doesn't and can't apply to Blacks in America. Why? Because in order to be a Racist you have to have ruling power which will give you the ability to oppress others. Blacks don't have ruling power so if anybody tries to convince me that a Black person in America is Racist then I'm gonna know they're lying.

Informant #2084: A belief that your race is superior to another or all other races.

Informant #2086: Racism is the fear of anyone who is different from you.

Informant #2088: discrimination because of ones color

Informant #2090: a class of humanbeings

Informant #2093: Race is a social construct, considering it's a scientific proven fact, that race doesn't exist. Racism, is one cultural group holding power over another cultural group.

Informant #2108: Racism= belief that one race is superior to another, and the inhumane/diffrent treatment of other races based on that belief.

Informant #2115: Way people feel towards a particular group because of their race

Informant #2124: Race is classification of groups of people who share similar physical traits and national origin. Racism is the beliefs of racial superiority over other groups of persons.

Informant #2130: Race is a divisor of people.

Informant #2152: Racism is the deliberate persecution, discrimination, segragation, and/or dominance of one culture that feels unsubstantially superior over another.

Informant #2157: a generally agreed upon set of genotypes and phenotypes, understanding that it is not a hard fast rule, only guidelines.

Informant #2166: Racism is a tool used to push those at the top further while leaving the rest to fight like crabs in a barrel. Racism does not have to be overt and blatant to the eye, but can be as subtle as a flesh-colored band-aid that has been colored peachish. Whose flesh is this? Not an Asian person's, and certainly not a black person's.

Informant #2169: A system created by oppressors in which the goal is to "divide and conqure." The oppressed are therefore unable to be racist. They can only be "reactionist."

Informant #2178: Racism: An often instituitionalized manner of regarding a race of people as being inferior, and consequently creating a situation in which those who are deemed superior have political/social/economic means of ostracizing the inferior races solely on the basis of their race. Race: A construct that was created by society as a means of dividing people into groups based on the color of their skin.

Informant #2194: Limiting someone due to biological factors beyond their control.

Informant #2202: A social construct based on xenophobic principles.

Informant #2205: racism is fear or hatred towards a group of people based on their race.

Informant #2207: racism - being denied a change to perform or be judged fairly due to ones ethnic origins

Informant #2213: Racism is an excuse people use to try to subjugate others into an 'inferior' position.

Informant #2220: The differences in phenotype are biological, but the boundaries of race are social.

Informant #2232: racism is the discrimination against an individual or a group of individuals based on the ethnicity to which they belong

Informant #2242: Race is a social construct but if the color of one's skin was not used to separate society than religion would be used like in some African countries, class distinctions would be used like in some Asian countries. Race was invented so that the ruling class, Whites, could be empowered. White is light, good, angelic, and innocent. Black is dark, bad, demonic, and guilty.

Informant #2247: Race is an easy way of separating people by physical characteristics, and racism is the process of using those physical characteristics to put groups on a scale from acceptable to unacceptable.

Informant #2255: Racism is the dislike of on because they are of a different social class or color.

Informant #2263: belief that one race is superior to another

Informant #2264: Racism is prejudging individuals based on race.

Informant #2271: I only believe in the human race. Because I believe in the Biblical account of creation, I strongly believe that from one man, Adam, all men descended. Racism is a devisive tool of Satan, because it separates and destroys, and goes against the law of love taught by the Christ, and renders null and the void the fact that God is impartial.

Informant #2284: have none

Informant #2292: race is just something that the white man made up to futher differ himself from the black man

Informant #2293: Race is biological. Racism is expressing negative feelings/ideas about a person based solely on their race. This includes hiring practices, housing, etc.

Informant #2294: I think that race is two-fold. Race identifies a person based on their "coloring" and is based on their cultural upbringing and belief system

Informant #2295: Racism is discriminatory behavior directed at a person based on their physical appearance which is common to a group of similar physical make-up. Race, in my opinion, is undefinable.

Informant #2328: Race is the term frail humanity has chosen to define the apparent (and subtle) differences between mankind.

Informant #2345: Race is a social contruction based on one's perception of another's physical traits, and is used solely as a means to divide and conquer.

Informant #2347: Racism: A social construct devised to assign access to power and privilege based upon perceived biological characteristics. Race: Social group based on shared characteristics such as skin color, continent of origin, and languages.

Informant #2355: Racism in my opinion is having a bias towards other races which is most often a negative. Race I am uncertain about...especially since I have not had a biology class in years. But I know I would base race off certain physical characteristics that a majority of people in the race share. Of course that definition can lead to ambiguoity (sp) because with the black race for instance...a lot of us do not have traditional black features.

Informant #2356: Race - skin color Racism - belief that one's race is superior than all others; acts without regard to the rights of other races

Informant #2357: The subjegation of a group (sharing a common trait) by another group(sharing a common trait) in every area of human relations(education, religion, ,law, labor, politics, economics ,etc)

Informant #2386: Racism or race? Odd wording, there. Race is a cultural group, consisting of people of similar physical appearance and geographical origins. Racism is discrimination against members of a race, whether it be your own or another.

Informant #2389: We're all one race, the human race.

Informant #2400: To knowingly divide (in any way) individuals or groups of people based on the color of their skin.

Informant #2410: person(s) belonging (orignially) from one of the major continents.

Informant #2425: racism- the act of enforcing restrictions upon another part based upon phenotypical standards. race- identification of a person based upon phenotyical traits (i.e. color, hair texture and etc.)

Informant #2439: Discrimination against group of people for purposes of economic gain "justified" by racial superiority

Informant #2440: Color of a person's skin, as well as their physical characteristics.

Informant #2449: Race-group of similar genetic makeup Racism-prejudice against a race

Informant #2450: Race is indeed a social construct. There are ABSOLUTELY NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES between people of different skin colors that come from the physical reality of having different skin colors. Important differences are social and cultural in nature; not physical or biological. THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE - THE HUMAN RACE!!!

Informant #2474: Racism is discrimination against someone because of their "race".

Informant #2481: Unsure how to put in words

Informant #2484: Race is your physical appearence that is based on your ancestor's enviroment. Racism is the dislike or hatred of a certain group of people based on their culture or racial features.

Informant #2498: Racism is an idea.

Informant #2508: racsim is when you hurt someone physically or emotionaly solely based on race

Informant #2519: racism is to me some times self hatred of one's natural skin tone but mostly hatred from others of a person's skin color and/or nationality

Informant #2574: Racism is the act of treating others that are not in your ethnic background as less than equal simply because of their ethnic/racial background.

Informant #2591: a feeling of superiority over another group based on skin color

Informant #2608: Racism is the belief that a group of a particular ethnicity is superior to another.

Informant #2638: race - person's background/like mongoloid, negroid, caucausoid

Informant #2671: There is only one race: human. We are all a collective of ethnic/tribal groups that forge identity on many levels. Racism is the power to inflict enimical control against others on many levels: economic, sexual, labor, law, educatation, war, politics.

Informant #2732: Race is what the thinker believes it is.

Informant #2742: I believe racism is learned. People are not born as racists.

Informant #2797: Race and racism is a hierarchical system meant to benefit one race over the other with the use of random attributes that are not changeable.

Informant #2810: Social construct made up by man for identificaiton and categorization purposes

Informant #2817: a ruler used to keep track of blacks

Informant #2868: Racism is the belief that your own entire race is in some way superior to another entire race, and people are not related to as individual human beings.

Informant #2878: preference given to someone due to race

Informant #18055: Race consists of your biological tendancies and the environment you were raised in

Informant #19132: Racism is discrimination or hatred to a person for his or her race... as in colour or origin (as in country or area)

Informant #20002: Racism- the unfair judgment of a person/people based on the color of their skin, not their individual character(s)

Informant #20136: don't know

Informant #23626: race is similar to nationality. Its not color of skin

Informant #25447: Racism is the insane mindset that your race is better than someone else's. Race, to me, isn't important, but I guess where your ancestors are from.

Informant #29423: a system of advantage based on race

Informant #29654: racism: unjustified discrimination/hate based only on the physical differences with others race : commun physical, physiological and social traits shared by a defined group

Informant #59036: Looking down upon other ethnic groups, often as a result of social relations between one another.

Informant #71551: Racism: Strong and unfounded prejudices aligned to a certain image perpetuated by a social construct.

Informant #77892: 'Race' is a misuse of the word in this case, becasue we are one race, the 'human race'. But racism (juding someone based on their appeirance) is a real problem.

Informant #98626: prejudice based on phyiscal traits

Informant #101749: (This is a hard one...) Race: defining one's ethnic/cultural background/roots Racism: Hate/discrimination to another person/group based on race

Informant #102188: treating anybody in a manner that you would not want to be treated in

Informant #178029: Racism--A set of beliefs that one or more race(s) are inferior to another race(s)

Informant #223778: Racism is prejudice against people of different skin pigmentation. It is learned in socialization and thus can be unconscious and very hard to change.

Informant #224210: Racism: Feelings of biased towards another person because of their heritage(Race)

Informant #275242: Racism is discriminating against a group of people with a different skin color.

Informant #288021: Racism is when someone has a hatred based on their color, sex, religion, and things like that.

Informant #431830: Racism is the belief that one race is better than another, race is your biological make up including skin, bones, hair, facial features, and even ways of thinking.

Informant #433339: Race refers to a nation of origin, whereas culture and experience influence the way people behave.