A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative clause. It is called a relative pronoun because it relates to the word that its relative clause modifies. Here is an example: 1  The person who phoned me last night is my teacher.
Likewise, new racism refers to the codes, logics, and ideologies that facilitate, rationalize, and naturalize power imbalances in the absence of formalized segregation or apartheid within 21st century America.
As such, I define it in two ways. As an ideology, racism is the belief that population groups, defined as distinct âraces,â generally possess traits, characteristics or abilities, which distinguish them as either superior or inferior to other groups in certain ways.