Bigotry (redirected from dogmatism)

Bigotry

See also Anti-Semitism.

Beaumanoir, Sir Lucas de

prejudiced ascetic; Grand Master of Templars. [Br. Lit.: Ivanhoe]

Bunker, Archie

middle-aged bigot in television series. [TV: “All in the Family” in Terrace, I, 47–48]

fiery cross

used as symbolic threat by Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Jobes, 387]

Hitler, Adolf

(1889–1945) German dictator; his New Order excluded non-Aryans, e.g., Jews, Slavs. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler]

Jim Crow

Negro stereotype popularized by 19th-century minstrel shows. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 138]

John Birch Society

ultra-conservative, anti-Communist U.S. organization founded in 1958. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1421]

Ku Klux Klan

anti-Negro terrorist organization, started in southern U.S. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 46–49]

Lebenshorn

Himmler’s adoption/breeding scheme to produce master race. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 1046]

Light in August

study of race problem in South. [Am. Lit.: Light in August]

Little Rock, Arkansas

required military intervention to desegregate schools (1957–1958). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 556–557]

Native Son

pictures underprivileged Negro as either churchgoer or criminal. [Am. Lit.: Native Son, Magill I, 643–645]

Nazi

Nazionalsozialist; rabid anti-Semite member of Hitler’s party. [Ger. Hist.: Shirer]

New Order

partially fulfilled Nazification of Europe. [Eur. Hist.: Hitler, 935, 1055]