Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of race or races.
- adjective Arising from or based on differences among human racial groups.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to race or lineage, or to a race or races of living beings; characteristic of race or of a race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a race or family of men.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a
race or a people
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups
- adjective of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people
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Examples
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HAYES: I think this is part of the problem, frankly, he says it ` s suspicious that I would use the term racial preference.
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Don't forget that racial profiling has been going on long before we had the term racial profiling.
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Don't forget that racial profiling has been going on long before we had the term racial profiling.
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Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup.
Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan 2011
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Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup.
Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan 2011
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Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup.
Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan 2011
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Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup.
Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan 2011
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After Schlessinger aired a rant about race and what she called racial "hypersensitivity," which lasted nearly six minutes, and included eleven fully articulated, uncensored instances of the N-word, it wasn't the FCC that came down on her.
Rashad Robinson: Censorship? You Can't Be Sirius Rashad Robinson 2010
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After Schlessinger aired a rant about race and what she called racial "hypersensitivity," which lasted nearly six minutes, and included eleven fully articulated, uncensored instances of the N-word, it wasn't the FCC that came down on her.
Rashad Robinson: Censorship? You Can't Be Sirius Rashad Robinson 2010
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After Schlessinger aired a rant about race and what she called racial "hypersensitivity," which lasted nearly six minutes, and included eleven fully articulated, uncensored instances of the N-word, it wasn't the FCC that came down on her.
Rashad Robinson: Censorship? You Can't Be Sirius Rashad Robinson 2010
bilby commented on the word racial
"For some reason, this is the part of the story where everyone wants to know if the guy was black.
Yeah, he was. No, I did not yell something racial at him. Or struggle with myself because I really wanted to yell something racial at him. Or think something racial and then feel guilty about it later. This is not that kind of story."
- Joseph Shahadi, Look Twice, racialicious.com, 19 March 2009.
March 23, 2009