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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 174. Chapters: Racism, Apartheid in South Africa, Ketuanan Melayu, Multiculturalism, Ancient Egyptian race controversy, David Duke, A More Perfect Union (speech), Racial segregation, Anti-Arabism, Bradley effect, Race and crime in the United States, Black Panther Party, Resignation of Shirley Sherrod, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, White privilege, Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy, White Australia policy, Affirmative action, New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States, Prussian Settlement Commission, National Party (South Africa), National-Anarchism. Excerpt: Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior. The exact definition of racism is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about the meaning of the concept "race," and because there is also little agreement about what does and doesn't constitute discrimination. Some definitions would have it that any assumption that a person's behavior would be influenced by their racial categorization is racist, regardless of whether the action is intentionally harmful or pejorative. Other definitions only include consciously malignant forms of discrimination. Among the questions about how to define racism are the question of whether to include forms of discrimination that are unintentional, such as making assumptions about preferences or abilities of others based on racial stereotypes, whether to include symbolic or institutionalized forms of discrimination such as the circulation of ethnic stereotypes through the media, and whether to include the...