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hyperracial

hyperracial adjective: highly or excessively racial.

Adjective

hyperracial (not comparable)

  1. Highly or excessively racial.
    • The German churches were not strong in any democratic doctrine or spirit to meet this assault of hyperracial nationalism. The Observer was in Germany two years after the war. He found the church leaders monarchical, opposed to the republic […]1939, Christian Advocate
    • Hyperracial fantasies likewise exist throughout the historical avant-garde, and gender politics take a particularly extreme form, leading to hypermasculinism.2009, Carrie Noland, Barrett Watten, Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, Palgrave MacMillan

Examples of hyperracial in a sentence

  • A hyperracial reality becomes blaringly evident when exploring U.S. popular culture, and more specifically, rap music.2016, James Braxton Peterson, Hip Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 120:
  • Jefferson's hyperracial culture was not just upheld by students making sly comments in the shadows.2017, Shayla Reese Griffin, Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School, Harvard Education Press, →ISBN:

Origin of hyperracial

From hyper- + racial.

Questions about hyperracial

What does hyperracial mean?
Hyperracial means highly or excessively racial.
How do you use hyperracial in a sentence?
A hyperracial reality becomes blaringly evident when exploring U.S. popular culture, and more specifically, rap music.
What part of speech is hyperracial?
Hyperracial is an adjective.

Words near hyperracial in the dictionary

  1. hyperquadrics
  2. hyperqualified
  3. hyperquantum
  4. hyperquark
  5. hyperquarks
  6. hyperracial
  7. hyperracialized
  8. hyperracism
  9. hyperracist
  10. hyperracists
  11. hyperradial

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