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Thesaurus: 1501 entries.


QUEBEC (Search for related entries in the library)

RACE (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: A social contruct tied to racialization. Racial categories, including 'visible minority', 'South Asian', and 'white', are constructed through processes of racialization embedded in daily interaction, ideologies, policies and practices.

RACE BIAS 

RACE DISCRIMINATION (Search for related entries in the library)

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 

RACIAL MINORITIES 

RACIALIZATION (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: A process of signification in which human being are categorized into "races" by reference to real or imagined phenotypical or genetic differences (Miles 1987:7)

RACISM (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: An ideology that ascribes negatively evaluated characteristics in a deterministic manner to a group that is additionally identified as being in some way biologically distinct (Miles 1982:7).

RADICAL FEMINISM (Search for related entries in the library)

RAPE