anti-racial

adjective

Opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.

Meanings

adjectiveanti-racial (not comparable)

alternative antiracial

  1. not comparableOpposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.

    That is to say we must be both “racial” and anti-racial at the same time, which really means that nationalism and internationalism must be combined in the same philosophy.

    2014, Nico Slate, The Prism of Race, →ISBN
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    To be clear, to reiterate: I am suggesting that in the wake of whatever nominal successes, antiracist struggle gave way in each instance to anti-racial commitments at the expense of antiracist effects and ongoing struggle.

    2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, →ISBN

    The major modern scholarly studies on race in the United States were triggered by the ideological and sociopolitical struggles surrounding the New Deal —the anti-dictatorial, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and anti-racial struggles that reached their peaks during the 1930s.

    2012, W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton, An American Health Dilemma, →ISBN

Origin

Translations

Greek αντιφυλετικός
  • αντιφυλετικός (antifyletikós)anti-racial
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