racially challenged

Adjective

racially challenged (not comparable)

1. (US, euphemistic) Not white, and thus facing challenges (or perceived as deficient) due to racism.
   • He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses.2009, Michael Dibdin, End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, page 206
   • Derricotte explains that being racially challenged moves one “outside of love, community” and places “that territory in another person's head that made her the thing hated".2013, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Crossing Black: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture
2. (US, euphemistic) White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc.
   • […] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.2000, Refugees, page 20
   • And he gives an account of the odd coupling of Utopian co-op developer Abraham Kazan and the anti-utopian, racially challenged Robert Moses that is alone worth the price of admission.2010, Peter R. Eisenstadt, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing, Cornell University Press, →ISBN
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially, challenged.
   • […] belonging, accommodation and attachment to a nation, with white Africans or Asian Africans being nationalistically and racially challenged. The case of politically aspiring white Kenyans has become a recent politically heated debate.2000, Edmond Maloba Were, Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Nationalism and Democracy for People Centred Development in Africa