racism
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When I read it in high school, I wasn’t engaging with its undercurrents of racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, gender or sexuality in the way I do now.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
Released in 1974, “Blazing Saddles” was both a critical and commercial hit that pushed the boundaries of mainstream studio comedy while satirizing racism, western mythology and Hollywood itself.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
President George Bush denounced Mr. Duke’s “ugly record of racism and bigotry.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026
He also told South Africans there was "no space for xenophobia, racism, sexism, Afrophobia or any other forms of intolerance in South Africa".
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Prominent black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was a vocal critic of the suffragist movement’s racism.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing racism
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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President Biden's Inaugural Speech (January 2021)
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