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antiracial

antiracial

5.0
Against racism and unfair treatment based on race
  • adjective
  • /ˌæn.tiˈreɪ.ʃəl/
translation icon : antirracial
  • The community held an antiracial rally to promote equality for all citizens.

Examples

  • Future work might take a more macro view of how national antiracial projects such as #BlackLivesMatter infiltrate into these local microcosms and shift public discourse.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Journalism and digital interactive spaces provided a key stage to witness how the dominant actors of progressivism as a "racial project" navigated the counterforces of an "antiracial project" that was the "Race to Equity" report.

    Academic text (2018)

  • "In order to fulfill his agenda, he advocated the practice of castration at birth of all 'antiracial,' or non-Caucasian, males.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Her antiracial beliefs motivated her to fight against discriminatory policies.

  • They formed an antiracial group to educate others about the impacts of racism.

Synonyms

color-blind
vsantiracial
  • US
3 4.0

Not treating people differently because of their race when choosing people for jobs or schools

is actively opposed to using race as a category rather than merely ignoring it
antiracist
vsantiracial
1 4.1

Opposes racism and acts to make life fair for people of different races

is mainly against using race as a category rather than promoting equality
nonracist
vsantiracial
1 4.2

Being fair to people of different races

is more actively against using race as a category than simply lacking prejudice
nondiscriminating
vsantiracial
4.6

Treating all people the same without unfair preference

is specific to opposing race-based categories rather than all forms of bias

How Racist

racist
  • Offensive
176 5.4
antiracist
1 4.1
antiracial
5.0
nonracist
1 4.2

Surface Forms

antiracial positive

Morphology

antiracial = racial (transparent) = anti + race + ial

The word is formed straightforwardly by adding anti- to racial, so the meaning 'opposed to race-based categories or discrimination' is directly recoverable.

Etymology

The word antiracial combines anti- meaning 'against' and race meaning 'a group of people'. So antiracial describes being 'against' treating people differently because of their race.