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Bigotry See also Anti-Semitism. Beaumanoir, Sir Lucas de prejudiced ascetic; Grand Master of Templars. [Br. Lit.: Ivanhoe] middle-aged bigot in television series. [TV: “All in the Family” in Terrace, I, 47–48] used as symbolic threat by Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Jobes, 387] (1889–1945) German dictator; his New Order excluded non-Aryans, e.g., Jews, Slavs. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler] Negro stereotype popularized by 19th-century minstrel shows. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 138] ultra-conservative, anti-Communist U.S. organization founded in 1958. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1421] anti-Negro terrorist organization, started in southern U.S. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 46–49] Himmler’s adoption/breeding scheme to produce master race. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 1046] study of race problem in South. [Am. Lit.: Light in August] required military intervention to desegregate schools (1957–1958). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 556–557] pictures underprivileged Negro as either churchgoer or criminal. [Am. Lit.: Native Son, Magill I, 643–645] Nazionalsozialist; rabid anti-Semite member of Hitler’s party. [Ger. Hist.: Shirer] partially fulfilled Nazification of Europe. [Eur. Hist.: Hitler, 935, 1055] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is a phenomenon that strikes everyone, and we have to get to the point where we can put these evil bigotries behind us so we can focus on the spread of AIDS, the availability of treatment, the teaching of preventive measures, the use of condoms. Villette reflects the biases and bigotries of the period in which it was written. So Levin made ``Protocols of Zion,'' in which he studies a wide, raucous array of current bigotries while debunking passages from the book itself. |
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