antiracial

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A form of anti-racial — Opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveantiracial (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of anti-racial.

    However, analysis of the racial targeting of South Asians and their responses in the post-9/11 period suggests that religious identity can also work against a broader panethnic and antiracial mobilization.

    2012, Robin Dale Jacobson, Nancy D. Wadsworth, Faith and Race in American Political Life, →ISBN
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    Gilroy argues for an image of Marley that is antiracial, anticapital and planetary. It is deemed antiracial because of the attempt to step outside the constraints of identity politics. Nonetheless, he acknowledges the racial elements that influence the representation of Marley' s image.

    2007, Manisha Nordine, Jammin' with Resistant Music and Popular Culture in Bob Marley's Jah-Public, →ISBN, page 159

    Lazarus calls this postcolonial criticism's reading of Fanon “back to front,” from the call for liberation in The Wretched of the Earth (1961) to the presciently poststructuralist sense of antiracial, nonparticularist identity in Black Skin, White Masks (1952).

    2009, Vilashini Cooppan, Worlds Within, →ISBN

    Famous artists came to crusade for Woodard; radio show hosts, including Orson Welles, talked about the incident; Woody Guthrie wrote and performed songs such as "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard;" and artist Lord Invader wrote and performed antiracial songs like "God Made Us All" in support of Woodard.

    2013, Virginia Schafer, Pelham Lyles, Legendary Locals of Fairfield County, South Carolina, →ISBN, page 116

Origin

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APA

antiracial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiracial

MLA

“antiracial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiracial. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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