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intraracial

intraracial

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Happening among people of the same race
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntrəˈreɪʃəl/
translation icon : intraracial
  • Most gang violence in California, including Southern California, is still intraracial.
  • intraracial ties
  • intraracial group

Examples

  • Black and white students already had strong and weak intraracial ties and thus had little reason to form weak ties with each other.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Without a statistical and ethnographic picture of the black migrants in the North, one tends to oversimplify the intraracial mobility between classes in the black population.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Black students were, however, involved in more intraracial conflict within their population on campus.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The interviews also revealed an intraracial conflict within the Black population on the campus.

    Academic text (2009)
  • This use of language and culture, this particular intraracial silence, functions as a reaction to the shock.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Amid the talk about our Southern Way of Life, I never heard anybody mention this other, intraracial segregation.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Intraracial ties on campus for both Black and White students inhibited opportunities for interracial communication at the individual level.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Harris and Kalbfleisch (2000) designed an exploratory study on communication in the initiation of interracial and intraracial relationships among college students.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In Granovetter's (1973) words, the AASA provided the "time, the emotional intensity, the intimacy (mutual confiding), and the reciprocal services" (p. 1361) that led Black students to form intraracial strong ties.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Black students were, however, involved in more intraracial conflict within their population on campus.

Surface Forms

intraracial positive

Morphology

intraracial = racial (transparent) = intra + racial

Formed by the productive combining prefix 'intra-' meaning 'within' added to 'racial'; the meaning 'within the same race' is directly derivable. [Postprocessing: moved 'intra' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Intraracial combines intra- ('within') and racial (from 'race', a group of people), so it means something that happens or exists inside the same racial group.