Original passage below, taken from: Wade, Peter. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. London and Chicago: Pluto Press, 1997. But it is no coincidence that just as abolitionist opinion gained dominance in Europe, making the institutionalized inferiority of blacks morally insecure, theories [claiming to be 'scientific'] began to emerge that could justify the continued dominance over blacks (not to mention Native Americans, Asians and Orientals) in terms of supposedly innate and permanent inferiority and now with the full power of scientific backing (Wade, 1997: 11). Paraphrase: Although the abolitionist cause weakened the European public's acceptance of slavery, pseudo-scientific theories were advanced which argued that non-whites were inherently inferior to whites. This meant that even while institutionalized racism lost its support, ideological racism was able to secure the continued oppression of non-whites (Wade, 1997: 11). Is this plagiarism?
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