Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

racism and popular culture  

Definition

  • Race has taken on significant meaning in recent history. Beginning particularly during the eras of European colonialism and imperialism, an ideology of White superiority was spread to rationalize Western conquest, exploitation, and domination over supposedly inferior-raced peoples. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Popular Culture, Racism and]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/racism_and_popular_culture

Download this concept: