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[[File:Roma camp Lille France 2010.jpg|thumb|300px|Roma children at an encampment in Lille. France has deported many Gypsy migrants to Bulgaria and Romania in 2010.]]

[[File:Roma camp Lille France 2010.jpg|thumb|300px|Roma children at an encampment in Lille. France has deported many Gypsy migrants to Bulgaria and Romania in 2010.]]

'''Racism''' is [[prejudice]] and [[discrimination]] based on [[race]].

'''Racism''' is [[prejudice]] and [[discrimination]] based on [[race]].

An example is a claim that of inferiority or superiority based on the color of one's skin.  A

An example is a claim that of inferiority or superiority based on the color of one's skin.  Another example was the [[Jim Crow]] laws. Racism means the hatred of another person because of the color of his or her skin; some used the term ''racism'' for perrceived difference in origin.   

 

Racism has come to mean the hatred of another person because of the color of his or her skin, or perceived difference in origin.  The doctrine of [[substantive due process]] in United States constitutional law can be used to invalidate racist laws.  Alternately, the [[Equal Protection|equal protection]] clause of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] can be used to do the same.  ''See e.g.'' [[Brown v. Board of Education]], 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

The doctrine of [[substantive due process]] in United States constitutional law can be used to invalidate racist laws.  Alternately, the [[Equal Protection|equal protection]] clause of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] can be used to do the same.  ''See e.g.'' [[Brown v. Board of Education]], 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

[[category:psychology]]

[[category:psychology]]