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anti-racial

anti-racial adjective: opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.

Adjective

anti-racial (not comparable)

  1. 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 formantiracial

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.

Words near anti-racial in the dictionary

  1. anti-proverb
  2. anti-proverbs
  3. anti-Putinism
  4. anti-Putinist
  5. anti-Putinists
  6. anti-racial
  7. anti-racialization
  8. anti-racialize
  9. anti-racism
  10. anti-racist
  11. anti-racists

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