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intraracial

intraracial adjective: within a single race (group of people); of or by members of the same race.

Adjective

intraracial (not comparable)

  1. Within a single race (group of people); of or by members of the same race.
    • The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white...1990, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, “Preface”, in Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page xiv

Antonyms of intraracial

Origin of intraracial

From intra- + racial.

Questions about intraracial

What does intraracial mean?
Intraracial means within a single race (group of people); of or by members of the same race.
What part of speech is intraracial?
Intraracial is an adjective.

Words near intraracial in the dictionary

  1. intraputaminal
  2. intrapyramidal
  3. intraquartile
  4. intraquery
  5. intrarachidian
  6. intraracial
  7. intraradical
  8. intraradicular
  9. intraramal
  10. intrarater
  11. intrarayon

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