protoracist

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of proto-racist.

   “These protoracist notions differ in important ways from the "science of race" that emerged in the nineteenth century, to say nothing of the crude and vicious applications of it under Nazi rule.”

   “One of the oldest known religious prejudices, which has been passed on through the centuries and in various cultures and religious contexts and even adopted in a protoracist form, is that against the Egyptian religion and its followers.”

   “In the Roman world, as in more recent colonial societies, protoracist views about the inferiority of “barbarian” peoples helped to justify war, subjugation, mass murder, enslavement, and exploitation on an unprecedented scale across vast territories.”

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of proto-racist.

   “The Greeks have been variously represented: as aristocrats or democrats, as unravished brides of quietness or sexual misfits in need of a therapist's couch, as narcissists or altruists, as protoracists or open-minded egalitarians.”

   “Schoolmaster, meanwhile, cannot brand the third-grade class at Mesa Elementary as protoracists (a conclusion that I am sure she does not believe anyway).”