racial memory

noun

Race memory.

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Meanings

nounracial memory (plural racial memories)

plural racial memories

  1. Race memory.

    Even in primitive worlds it persists in racial memories.

    1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50
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    It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.

    1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28

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