Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occurring within a race. Compare with interracial.
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- adjective Within
race (group of people); of or by members of the same race.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Class was de-emphasized for another reason: to downplay the idea of intraracial conflict for fear of revealing evidence of racial disunity.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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Class was de-emphasized for another reason: to downplay the idea of intraracial conflict for fear of revealing evidence of racial disunity.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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Concerns about differing treatment and easier cultural assimilation of lighter-skinned blacks persist to the present day and still create resentments and intraracial undercurrents.
Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010
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It was an old rhyme in black oral culture before "Big Bill" Broonzy and others changed the subject from intraracial to interracial color caste, by editing it.
This Means War 2009
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When he found out the couple was intraracial, he said no way.
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I have long revered his "black vs. n-----" routine; it's an incisive (and squirm-making) exposition of intraracial dynamics.
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In trying to embrace cultural diversity, Ruth Sherman unwittingly wandered onto an intraracial minefield.
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Surely misogyny is not acceptable simply by virtue of being intraracial.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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And the problems include many incidents of intraracial violence.
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This "brother outsider," like his "sister outsider" counterpart, Audre Lorde, rightfully places the problem of intraracial sexual violence within the national context of racialized and heterosexist violence:
Brother Outsider: When Black Men Speak Out Against Sexual Violence Anxious Black Woman 2007
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