University of Split

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,Mehanical Engineering and Naval Arhitecture

RACISM
ANAMARIJA ŠIŠKOV
 CONTENT

1. What is racism?
1.1 The main determinants of racism
1.2. History of racism
1.2.1 Slavery
1.2.2. Scientific racism
1.2.3. Legal segregation and Jim Crow laws
1.3. Anti racism movements
1.3.1. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Conclusion
3. Literature
 1.WHAT IS RACISM?

• Racism is a belief that people must be divided into strict biological identities called “races” and that there
must be strong correlation between inherited physical traits and personality traits(intellectual abilities and
morality).

Figure 1 Racism
 1.1. THE MAIN DETERMINANTS OF
RACISM

• direct discrimination,
• indirect discrimination
• harassment
• victimisation

Figure 1.1. How skin tone affects experience of racism

1.2.HISTORY OF RACISM
 1.2.1 SLAVERY

• slave trade from Africa to America

• white people were "superior”
• plantations of sugar cane, cotton and tobacco in the American
colonies
• 15.-19. century

Figure 1.2.1. Child slavery

 1.2.2. SCIENTIFIC RACISM

• 19.-20. century.

• Eugenics: application of knowledge of human genetics in order to reduce number of less desirable genes(Francis Galton)

• Studying physical appearance

Figure 1.2.2. Sketch of skull

 1.2.3. LEGAL SEGREGATION AND JIM
CROW LAWS

• racial segregation in all public facilities in Confederate States of

America and in some others
• 1870’s
• Segregated waiting rooms in bus and train stations were required,
water fountains, restrooms, building entrances, elevators,
cemeteries, even amusement-park cashier windows
• Laws forbade African Americans from living in white
neighborhoods
 1.3. ANTI RACISM MOVEMENTS

• activist movement that opposes racism and fights for equality

and justice among all races
• open society that will provide everyone with equal opportunities
• education, activism, conversation and dialogue, and dissuasion
from privilege
• Black Lives Matter, Apartheid movement in South Africa

Figure 1.3. BLM

 1.3.1. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

• American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher

• one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement
• participated in and led marches for the right to vote,
desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights

Figure 1.3.1. Martin Luther

King Jr.
 2. CONCLUSION

• racism is still present today

• change comes from the invidual
• education in school from an early age
 3.LITERATURE

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/racism
• https://www.aclrc.com/racism
• https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/race-discrimination/what-r
acism
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
THANKS FOR YOU ATTENTION!
E-mail:asisko00@fesb.hr