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What do you see as the difference between overt racism and subtle racism?
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Racism: Overt and Subtle

Racism is often simplified as the prejudice one holds against other races. This is however too simplistic. The most appropriate description is racial discrimination which is made up of a host of ideologies and practices that are used to justify or lead to the unequal distribution of rights based on race and racial attributes alone. They can be social practices (i.e. the apartheid and Nazism) as well as forms of thinking and rationalizing (i.e. the Ku Klux Klan ideologies). Overt racism is the obvious manifestation and practice of prejudice against someone because of race. An example of this is the application of the Jim Crow laws from 1892 to 1965 were African-Americans were segregated from the wider White society simply because of their difference in skin color. Meanwhile ...

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