Racism in the Considerations of Selected Political Scientists, Sociologists and Philosophers

Karolina Baraniak

Abstract: Different, inferior, inferior in social status, uncivilized, barbarian, destined to obey orders ? these are just some of the invectives used by racists towards people who do not belong to their ethnic group. Racism itself is not a new phenomenon, we have already dealt with its manifestations in antiquity, although due to, interalia, apartheid or aspirations of equality for African Americans, it has flourished in the twentieth and twenty ? first centuries.

Keywords: racism, race, discrimination, superiority