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Racism
- RacismRichard Henry Pratt spoke the word racism in 1902 during a speech about social association. He stated that linking races and classes was necessary to destroy…
- GenocidePolish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide between 1941 and 1943. He combined the Greek word genos, meaning race or people, with the Latin…
- UntermenschThe American author Lothrop Stoddard published a book titled The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-man in 1922.
- AnthropometryIn 1893, Francis Galton visited a laboratory in Paris to observe the work of Alphonse Bertillon. The resulting record captured his physical dimensions with…
- Jews as the chosen peopleThe Hebrew Bible opens with a series of binding agreements between God and Abraham, the patriarch who left his homeland to follow a divine command.
- NazismThe word Nazi began as a derogatory nickname for a backward farmer or peasant in Bavaria. It was a hypocorism, or pet name, derived from the German male name…