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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intra- +‎ racial

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • When he found out the couple was intraracial, he said no way.

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2009 2009

  • I have long revered his "black vs. n-----" routine; it's an incisive (and squirm-making) exposition of intraracial dynamics.

    old diaries wistfully reread 2008

  • In trying to embrace cultural diversity, Ruth Sherman unwittingly wandered onto an intraracial minefield.

    Caught In The Cross-Fire 2008

  • Surely misogyny is not acceptable simply by virtue of being intraracial.

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • And the problems include many incidents of intraracial violence.

    Supreme Court Brief: A Question of Race 2007

  • 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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