anti-racial
anti-racial adjective: opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.
Adjective
anti-racial (not comparable)
- Opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.
- To be clear, to reiterate: I am suggesting that in the wake of whatever nominal successes, antiracist struggle gave way in each instance to anti-racial commitments at the expense of antiracist effects and ongoing struggle.2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, →ISBN
- The major modern scholarly studies on race in the United States were triggered by the ideological and sociopolitical struggles surrounding the New Deal —the anti-dictatorial, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and anti-racial struggles that reached their peaks during the 1930s.2012, W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton, An American Health Dilemma, →ISBN
Forms of anti-racial
| alternative form | antiracial |
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Origin of anti-racial
From anti- + racial.
Questions about anti-racial
- What does anti-racial mean?
- Anti-racial means opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.
- What part of speech is anti-racial?
- Anti-racial is an adjective.
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