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racial memory

racial memory noun: race memory.

Noun

racial memory (plural racial memories)

  1. Race memory.
    • It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28
    • Even in primitive worlds it persists in racial memories.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50

Forms of racial memory

pluralracial memories

Questions about racial memory

What does racial memory mean?
Racial memory means race memory.
What part of speech is racial memory?
Racial memory is a noun.
What is the plural of racial memory?
The plural of racial memory is racial memories.

Words near racial memory in the dictionary

  1. racial hygiene
  2. racial integration
  3. racial integrations
  4. racial Marxism
  5. racial memories
  6. racial memory
  7. racial profile
  8. racial profiler
  9. racial profilers
  10. racial profiles
  11. racial profiling

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